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From: Nina McGahan <>
Subject: DNA
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 06:44:09 -0700


Hi Cindi, Thank you for responding to my e-mail. I apologize for the
personal response, but didn;t realize the by just hitting "reply" I was
bypassing the list.
Regrettably, I gave you the only info I have. My great great
grandmother, Mary Jane Watts, according to her tombstone (just stumbled
on, flat, nearly buried, sunken and hidden behind the family plot
stones, abbutting the backs of them, last Oct. in the Spring Grove
Cemetary in Delavan WI) stated Mary Jane Watts, wife of Wes Eleson,
aged 55 years, died Dec. 6, 1860 So we are left to calculate her
birthdate as 1805, and checking the census for 1860, Delavan, find it
says she was Jane Eleson, age 58, from NY, living with her daughter,
SaraJean Eleson Alcan. Contradictory info, as the stone implied she was
born in 1805. That is all the info I have on my Watts as cannot find
any record of Wesley Eleson in that time slot anywhere. Lots of Wesley
Elesons. Our dad told my sis that he had been a slave owner so he must
have been in another state than NY. No record of him in WI. Dad died
in 1959, and I had never heard anything about slaves, but I had left
home long before that. I was interested in the NA connection, as he
always said there was NM blood in our family, but we could never figure
out where. It is apparent in our faces, and she would be the likely
connection as you say there were a lot in the Watts line. Somehow I
need to find a cousin somewhere.
Thanks again, Nina


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