Umbilical Lines

Traditionally, genealogy tracks the male or spear line of a given family.  The female lines are called the distaff line which refers to the stick used to hold yarn while spinning. More recently, genealogists have become more interested in the distaff lines.  Some people are now beginning to research their umbilical line.  This is mine:

Suellyn Lathrop

Trixie Erkman the only child of Iva Colclasure & Harold Erkman married Bill Lathrop in 1958.  They had two children.

Iva Jewel Colclasure born May 29, 1922 in Sailor Springs, IL.  She died July 22, 1940 in Fairfield, IL. At age 16 she married Harold Erkman on April 21, 1939 in Henderson, KY.  The couple moved to Peoria, IL where their daughter Trixie was born.  Iva was extremely ill after the birth and was taken home to her parents home where she died.  She is buried in Thomason Cemetery in Wayne City, IL.

Marybelle Fitzgerald born in Louisville, IL Aug. 9, 1889 and died Apr. 19, 1934 in Fairfield, IL.  On March 1, 1907 she married Clarence Colclasure  at age 18.  She had ten children which included two sets of twins:  Laura, Vernie, James, Verlie, Lowell, Delores, Irene, Iva, Edward and Ada.  She is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, IL

America Adeline Wilson born in Louisville, IL Aug. 24, 1868 and died in Fairfield, IL Feb. 25, 1943.  She married Wakeman Fitzgerald Jan. 10, 1887 at age 18.  She had eleven children:  Marybelle, Itha, Annie, Olsa, Edna, Rovilla, John Wesley, Carl, Clara and Francis. She is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, IL.

Evann Brooks born 1843 in Muskingum Co. OH, d. before 1880 in Clay Co. IL, possibly as early as 1869.  Her father Richard moved the family to Bartholomew County, IN and on to Clay Co. IL after her mother's death.  Evann married William Wilson July 20, 1860 in Clay Co. IL.  They had Franklin, Mary E., Beldora and America.

Delinah Lucy Coy b. ca. 1815 in Pennsylvania and died ca. 1850 in Muskingum Co., Ohio.  She married Richard Brooks 1831 in Muskingum Co.  They had Miriam, Caleb, Susan, Evann & Lucy Delinah Brooks.  She is probably buried in McGinnis Cemetery in Muskingum Co. Ohio.

Hester ? married William Coy and had at least 3 children, Mary, Delinah and William.  She probably died in Ohio.

What's your umbilical line?