Branches of the Cushing-Wright Family Tree
The Cushing-Wright Family's Journey Through Time
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Genetic genealogy reveals what a rich & elaborate back-story our known and recorded ancestry has.
November 2013 I did a Y-DNA test, adding a rich-back-story. Two parents < 4 grandparents < 8 great grandparents < 16 great great < 32 < 64 < 128 < 256 < 512 < 1024 < 2048 < ...
Now twenty Y-DNA-defined branches of my 1600s French Canadian Quebec pioneers flesh out and enrich the composite DNA lineage tapestry of our Central- and West European ancestors and their multiple back-stories; shared with millions of remote cousin descendants.
Mary Madeline "Ditty" Huston Wright
My great grandmother (27 September 1884 Missouri- 23 August 1965) lost her mother Ann Amanda Stephens at age 4. Age 20 she worked at the St. Louis Missouri World's Fair 30 April-1 December 1904; introducing jello. She & A.E. Wright married 1905 at St. Louis Methodist Church, had two children in Texas, put down roots in Chicago by 1911, & in 1957 retired near their daughter Mary Ellen in Empire, Michigan.
Mom & her parents George and Hazel
George (1909-1977; age 68) was born in Texas, and moved to Chicago age 2 in 1911. He attended northside Senn High, then did a year each at Dartmouth 1926-27 and Northwestern U in Evanston 1927-28 before employment with Illinois Power took him to the St. Louis Missouri suburb of Granite City, Illinois, where he met & married Hazel (1912-2011; age 99).
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