#52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Week 33 - Prompt: ‘Legend'

Week 33  - 'Legend'

I am cheating this week because I am using an American legend who I discovered is an ancestor of a family one of my ancestral family members married into.  That sounds a bit Irish and yes it is — as it was one of my Shanks girls from Poyntzpass in Co Down, N. Ireland who was the bride.

Margaret was the 8th child of 9, and sister to my Great-grandmother Eliza the 1st born in the Shanks family.

Margaret Shanks had married David Irwin in her hometown in Ireland in 1868.  They had a daughter who died at birth. 

David and Margaret moved to David’s hometown Hanover, Jo Daviess Co, Illinois in America. Then David died in 1870, after only 2 years of marriage.  

I feel sad for Margaret as she had now lost her husband and a daughter and was alone in a country a long way from family and her Irish homeland.

Five years later, in 1875, she married James Craig in Hanover and this is where we connect to legend.

James is a great-grandson of ‘Daniel Boone’ — frontiersman and trailblazer, the pioneer of Kentucky.

James was the 4th child of 16 born to Rev./Capt. James Craig and Delinda Boone. 

Delinda was the 2nd child of 14 born to Col. Nathan Boone and Olive Van Bibber.

Nathan was the youngest of 10 children born to Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan. 

Daniel Boone was the 8th of 16 children.

Copy of the only Portrait of Daniel Boone

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Margaret Shanks 1848-1929

David Irwin     C 1845-1870

James Craig  jr.         1841-1888

Delinda Boone         1802-1877

Rev. James Craig       1785-1847

Col. Nathan Boone   1781-1856

Olive van Bibber  1783-1858

Daniel Boone          1734-1820

Rebecca Bryan          1738-1813

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Reference:  

www.ccsnyder.com/clan/snyder/family/report/ps06/ps06_252.htm