My mother's mother's mother...

Have you ever been given a gift so meaningful that you simply can't wrap your mind around it?  While genealogy has never been a hobby of mine, many times I have wished that I could recite my family tree with ease.  By an amazing stroke of luck, some of my previously unknown ancestory has come to light.

1773 Abigail Briggs mother of

1800 Roxavannah C Briggs Kirkland mother of

1838 Helen Kirkland Throupe mother of

1861 Martha Emily Throupe Rhuark mother of

1884 Blanche Victoria Rhuark Smith mother of

1922 Rosa Mildred Smith Ackerman mother of

1953 Jane Lee Ackerman Lowe mother of

1971 Marnie Lynne Lowe Graley

 If you know your own family history well, perhaps this is not an astonishing thing, but for me, it's almost mind numbing.  I wonder how they lived, where they lived, did they stitch, if so, what and where and how?