with Elizabeth Lynds Lyons (1768-1823) These are my fourth great-grandparents via the Myers family; twice over, as explained below. Early life Thomas Brown was born in Warren, in central Massachusetts, on 20 November, 1769. He married the widow Elizabeth Lynds Lyons in Warren on 8 February 1791, They then moved…
with Eliza Brown (1795-1855) Early Life My third great-grandfather Lawrence Myers (no known middle name) was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, on 28 June 1794. He was the second of ten children of Philip Myers and Martha Bennett. Click to view his profile in the family tree. His given name…
with Susan M. Eldridge (1820-1893) My second great-grandfather Harry Eugene Colby was born on 15 December 1822, in Darien Township, Genesee County, New York. Click here to view him in the family tree. His ancestors had lived in the Northeast since his fourth great-grandfather (my 8th great), Anthony Colby, arrived…
With Leonora Brown (1827-1849) and Fanny Myers (1826-1909) My second great-grandfather was born in Sunbury, Ohio, on 15 November 1819. Click here to view his place in the family tree. His father, Lawrence Myers, and uncle William, had recently co-founded the town of Sunbury, Lawrence had built a log cabin…
Father of Ole Larson, thus my second great grandfather, and the “Lars” from which our “Larson” surname sprang.. Click here to view his place in the family tree. Other than his name, little was known of Lars Paulson until cousin Aline started her research in the 1980s. Lars Paulsen (alt…
Out of Norway Great-grandfather, patriarch of the huge Larson clan (including descendants with surnames Sletten, Raiten, Lunde, and others), and namesake of this very website, Ole Larson was born on 10 December 1841, in Oslo, Norway, at the time called Christiania. His home, however, was 150 miles to the north, on the…