a little something about me:
I didn't like or appreciate history until I went on a trip to New Orleans with my sister ;)
What a beautiful place...so rich in culture and history! I fell in love.
I started gathering information from family members and joined a search engine and realized that
a year membership, just wasn't enough. I certainly wasn't going to pay again.
I ran into Illinois Trails and here I am.
Through my search for my family history, I found a personal connection with Marion County as well as Gallatin County.
My Grandmother, Frieda Pauline Potter, was born in Marion County and I'm told my Grandfather, Seymour Larkin Nation
is from Shawneetown, Gallatin County. When visiting the Gallatin area.. I also fell in love with Hardin County.
Elizabethtown is a joy to visit and the people were very kind . (the food at the mom & pop place, was to die for!!)
Nation, Nation, Deanna Nation, Nation, Nation
Living Nation (mom) married to
Living Nation (dad)
Living Nation
Living
Nation
Frieda
Pauline Potter married
to
Seymour Larkin Nation
B: 14 Aug 1915
B: 13 Oct 1900
D: 15 Feb 1988 (2nd marriage)
D: 15 Feb 1988 (2nd marriage)
Martha Jane Slagley
married to
Napoleon B
Potter
B:
1876
3 Feb 1895
B: 13 May 1873
D: 27 Nov 1934
Evaline ? married to George W Slagley Louisa Jane Pearson married to Thomas Potter
B: approx.1854 B: approx.1852 B: 29 May 1834 7 Apr 1857 B: 25 Feb 1832 (2nd marriage) D:17 May 1914
D: 14 Feb 1880
Mary Anne Marshall married to Thomas Potter
B:12/8/1806 30 Nov 1825 B: Oct 1809
D: 5 Mar 1875
Ruth Moore married to Thomas Potter
B: 22 Mar 1764 b: 1/1755
obviously there are more Potters, but all of them listed here were born here in America
*in respect of privacy, living relatives weren't listed, nor their date of births
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D: 27 Nov 1934
Evaline ? married to George W Slagley Louisa Jane Pearson married to Thomas Potter
B: approx.1854 B: approx.1852 B: 29 May 1834 7 Apr 1857 B: 25 Feb 1832 (2nd marriage) D:17 May 1914
D: 14 Feb 1880
Mary Anne Marshall married to Thomas Potter
B:12/8/1806 30 Nov 1825 B: Oct 1809
D: 5 Mar 1875
Ruth Moore married to Thomas Potter
B: 22 Mar 1764 b: 1/1755
obviously there are more Potters, but all of them listed here were born here in America
and have been
validated with records such as a Census or Cemetery Stone( see Cockrell Cemetery) records by me
** See Marriages of
Marion County *in respect of privacy, living relatives weren't listed, nor their date of births
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