{"id":646,"date":"2011-01-19T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/sngf-ancestor-roulette-or-perhaps-fate\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:27:00","slug":"sngf-ancestor-roulette-or-perhaps-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/sngf-ancestor-roulette-or-perhaps-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"SNGF \u2013 Ancestor Roulette or Perhaps Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the spirit of getting back to blogging, I thought I\u2019d participate in Randy\u2019s<\/a> latest Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge<\/a> (I can\u2019t even remember the last time I did one\u2026sorry Randy).<\/p>\n

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The challenge was:<\/p>\n

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  1. How old is one of your grandfathers now, or how old would he be if he had lived? Divide this number by 4 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your “roulette number.”<\/li>\n
  2. Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an “ahnentafel”). Who is that person?<\/li>\n
  3. Tell us three facts about that person in your ancestral name list with the “roulette number.”<\/li>\n
  4. Write about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a Facebook note or comment, or as a comment on this blog post.<\/li>\n
  5. If you do not have a person’s name for your “roulette number” then spin the wheel again – pick a grandmother, or yourself, a parent, a favorite aunt or cousin, or even your children!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I initially chose my maternal grandfather, Harold Miller, who would be 92.\u00a0 This gave me the number 23, my second great-grandmother.\u00a0 Just for fun, I tried my paternal grandfather, John Cahill, who would be 88.\u00a0 This gave me the number 22, which, yep, is the husband of my #23.\u00a0 Since my numbers are a couple, I\u2019ll take a look at both of them together.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it strange how that worked out\u2026roulette, or fate?<\/p>\n

    James Manly GARRISON and Sarah Jane \u201cJennie\u201d MULLIGAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

    James Manly GARRISON<\/strong>, son of James or John GARRISON<\/strong> [1] and Susan \u2014?\u2014<\/strong>, [2] was born on 26 December 1861 in Picton, Ontario, Canada. [3]\u00a0 James died on 23 May 1909 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois at the age of 47. [4]\u00a0 He was buried at Oakridge Cemetery in Hillside, Cook, Illinois on 26 May 1909. [5]<\/p>\n

    James married Sarah Jane \u201cJennie\u201d MULLIGAN<\/strong> on 23 January 1893. [6]\u00a0 Sarah, daughter of James MULLIGAN<\/strong> and Sarah Norton WEBSTER<\/strong>, was born on 16 April 1870 in Flint, Genesee, Michigan. [7]\u00a0 Sarah died on 26 April 1947 in Chicago. [8]\u00a0 She was buried at Elm Lawn Cemetery in Elmhurst, DuPage, Illinois on 29 April 1947. [9]<\/p>\n

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    Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n

    1.\u00a0 Weeks Jacob W.J. W. Weeks & Co., Detroit City Directory, 1874: 264; digital images, Footnote (www.footnote.com).\u00a0 Weeks Jacob W.J. W. Weeks & Co., Detroit City Directory, 1887: 614; digital images, Footnote www.footnote.com.<\/p>\n

    2.\u00a0 1871 census of Canada, district 59, sub-district F Division 2, Sophiasburgh, Prince Edward, Ontario, p. 10, dwelling 29, family 32, Susan Garrison; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed October 27, 2009).<\/p>\n

    3.\u00a0 Sarah Jane (Webster) (Coffinger) Mulligan, Family Bible Records, 1801-1936, Holy Bible (unknown: unknown, ca. 1850), privately held by Julie Marie Cahill Tarr, Normal, Illinois, 2001; This Bible belonged to Sarah Jane Webster; it was given to her by her father Calvin Price Webster in 1853.\u00a0 It is believed that the chain of custody is as follows:\u00a0 Sarah Jane (Mulligan) Garrison, Emma (Garrison) McMahon, Joan Garrison (McMahon) Cahill, Joseph Cahill, Julie (Cahill) Tarr (current owner).\u00a0 The bible is in critical condition; very frail and falling apart.<\/p>\n

    4.\u00a0 Cook County, Illinois, death certificate no. 13981 (1909), James M Garrison, Cook County Coroner.<\/p>\n

    5.\u00a0 Ibid.\u00a0 Also, Oakridge Cemetery (Hillside, Cook, Illinois), Office Records, to Julie Tarr, personal office visit, citing administrative record for James M Garrison, SG 373-9. According to the office records, there is no gravestone.<\/p>\n

    6.\u00a0 State of Illinois, marriage license no. 195934 (1893), James M Garrison and Sarah J Mulligan; Cook County Clerk.<\/p>\n

    7.\u00a0 Sarah Jane (Webster) (Coffinger) Mulligan, Family Bible Records, 1801-1936.<\/p>\n

    8.\u00a0 State of Illinois, death certificate, no. 13632 (1947), Sarah Jane Garrison, Department of Public Health.<\/p>\n

    9.\u00a0 Ibid.\u00a0 Also, Elm Lawn Cemetery (Elmhurst, Illinois), Office Records, Sarah Jane Garrison, Section 10, Lot 340. Personally viewed the file for the family burial plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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