Hello and Welcome to L Day!
Name:
Letitia Forsyth
Vital Information:
Letitia was born in 1786 in Bunker Hill, West Virginia and died in 1865 in Indiana.
Relation to Me:
Letitia is my Maternal 4x great grandma
Tidbits/Characteristics/Commonalities:
Letitia was the third child and first daughter born to David Forsyth and Margaret McGibbon. She and her siblings were the first generation born on American soil to their Scottish and Irish immigrant parents.
Letitia married William Featheringill/Featheringale on 14 December 1809 in Kentucky where their first son, Milton, was born and died on the same day in 1810. Together they had seven more children, all who lived to adulthood.
Letitia is buried alongside her husband and kin in the Forsyth/Featheringill Cemetery in Johnson County, Indiana.
I wish I knew more about Letitia and trust more will be uncovered in time.
Tomorrow is M Day, though, and there is much written about her mother, Margaret. Stay tuned!
In Your Research…
Have you found many ancestors born in the 1700s and early 1800s that have much written about them?
Housekeeping
My theme for the 2025 A to Z Challenge is Kin! The first names of direct lineage kin, to be more specific.
I’m spending the majority of the month focusing on the first names of many of my direct lineage kin. I’ll include their full names, any vital information I’ve found in my research, their relation to me, any fun tidbits/characteristics/experiences, and any commonalities I may have gleaned between myself and them.
In a couple of cases, where I have not identified an ancestor whose first name starts with a particular letter, I will choose a unique middle name, a direct line surname, and/or ancestral lands/places of significance.
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Onward,
Melissa
Was it West Virginia in 1786? I thought West Virginia didn’t come to be until the Civil War. It’s amazing all we can find out from records about people from the past.
You are correct, Liz. It was simply Virginia at the time. What a cool time to be alive now, no? So much access to so much history, literally at our fingertips!
I have not found any relations back then with anything written about them.
This makes sense and also makes my heart hurt.
Letitia is a beautiful name. Family stories make such good fodder for fiction. @samanthabwriter from
Balancing Act
They truly are! Historical fiction is a favorite of mine and truly transports me back in vivid color to the days my ancestors walked the Earth <3
I am in awe of how many relatives you have found, and the artifacts you are able to share. Your family has a long history in the U.S. what a story they have seen.
It’s been such a fun puzzle to pull together, knowing full well it can never be “complete”. And yes, the most recent immigrant I’ve found is John Brogan, who came to the US in ~1857. Everyone else was here before him! So wild to wrap my head around.