Descendants of Timothy L. Garrigus and Elizabeth Ferree
The connection to this family is based on a newspaper article and DNA evidence, as Rose Garrigus Torrence was basically abandoned as a baby and adopted. See the blog for more information.
Timothy Lindley Garrigus was born in 1798 in New Jersey, the son of David Garrigus and Abigail Locy. He died in Nebraska in 1856. He married Elizabeth Alison Ferree in Ohio in 1817. She was born in 1800 in Virginia and died in Kokomo, Indiana, in 1878.
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- Finding Rose
The story in my husband’s family is that his great-grandmother, Rose Main (married to Orpheus), was a foundling. It was passed along that she was left on someone’s doorstep as a baby. A 2002 e-mail from a cousin puts it this way: The storyContinue reading “Finding Rose”
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