Blogger Randy Seaver, at Genea-Musing challenged Genealogy Bloggers with this:
Hey, it’s Saturday Night, let’s have some fun figuring out who is Number 21 in your ancestry from your memory or your genealogy database.
A little late for Saturday night, I am posting my Number 21. The individual with the #21 will be one of our eight second-great-grandmothers. Randy further challenged us to name our eight second-great-grandmothers.
I am up for the challenge:
#17 – Elizabeth Willits – 1820 – 1904
wife of Henry Wilson Worthington
#19 – Hannah Lucinda Garland – 1835 – (unknown)
wife of Job Whitall Reeve
#21 – Edith Sharpless (see below)
#23 – Eliza Pancoast Worrall – 1815 – 1876
wife of Daniel James
#25 – Elizabeth Mercer Darlington – 1823 – 1881
wife of Marshall Strode
#27 – Sarah Jane Dicks – 1840 – (unknown)
wife of Abraham Palmer Worrell
#29 – Sarah McAllister (dates unknown)
wife of Philip Johnston
#31 – Rachel Carroll – 1828 – 1903
wife of William F. Allen
Edith Sharpless, daughter of Jesse and Ann (Harvey) Sharpless, was born 1 mo. 15, 1815 and died in Thornbury Twp. on 2 mo. 21, 1900. In Westtown Twp. on 12 mo. 3, 1835 she married Joseph R. Cheyney, son of Curtis and Ann (Reed) Cheyney. He was born in Thornbury Twp., Delaware Co., Pa on 9 mo. 6, 1808 and died there 10 mo. 27, 1878. Mr Cheyney farmed the homestead of his father in Thornbury.
ISSUE SURNAMED CHEYNEY:
Jesse Sharpless married Ellen Roberts Moore.
Edwin born 9 mo. 4, 1841 and died 12 mo. 23, 1855.
Kersey born 7 mo. 22, 1844 and died 8 mo. 21, 1856.
Wilmer married Ellen Harrison James.