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Grace E. Yeager Hunt, and mother Maggie Wilson
Yeager
Find-A-Grave website
(photo submitted by Dr. Jon Tyler Conner)
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I ran across this photo
recently on the Find-A-Grave website, and after at first thinking the names
sounded familiar, I then realized why. Besides making for a striking photo,
this pair help illustrate how closely interrelated our neighboring communities
were in and around Sullivan & Vigo Counties.
This mother-daughter photo is
of Grace Ellen (Yeager) Hunt and Margaret ‘Maggie’ (Wilson) Yeager. (This photo
would have been taken in the mid-1890s.) Maggie, the daughter of Henry Kouchman
Wilson and Mary E (Mann) Wilson, was married to Warren Milton Yeager of Prairie
Creek; second marriage for both.
Their daughter Grace would marry Arthur Hunt, also of Prairie Creek.
Through the Wilson family
tree, Maggie was a 1st cousin to Tacy Margaret (Cochran) Smith, the grandmother
of our grandmother Mildred (Smith) Thompson. Maggie’s husband Milton Yeager was
a 4th cousin to Clara (Yeager) Phillips, mother of Leo S Phillips. Therefore, Grace was a 2nd cousin to our ‘Great-Granddad’ Edgar Smith, of Cass Twp., and a 5th cousin to ‘Grandpa’ Leo Phillips, of Graysville.
To round out our family
connections, Grace’s husband Arthur Hunt was a 3rd cousin to ‘Grandpa’ Walter
Thompson through their common ancestry (Hunt family from Guilford County, NC). Arthur and Walter were also 4th cousins and
5th cousins through other lines of the Hunt family. Also, Maggie (Wilson) Yeager
was a 1st cousin to Mary (Mann) Durham, the mother of Thomas Mann Durham who
was married to Ruth (Eno) Durham, 1st cousin of 'Grandma' Helen (Cushman) Phillips.
Got it all?
