Sunday, June 5, 2016

Which Reminds Me

Why is this smart alecky nuisance still harping on the Levines connection? It is true that my great-grandmother's father was Mr. Archibald Levines, but, for one thing, he died in 1895, so beyond a couple of very ancient photographs not much is known of this mysterious person. Also, our great-grandmother was raised mostly by her Smith uncles and aunts and cousins, who were maybe Methodists, in a small village of Pennsylvania near the border with New York, her father rarely appearing in her life but a handful of times after her mother's death when she was a small child. It is known that Mr. Levines had another daughter, Esther 'Etta' Levens, by an earlier marriage, but nothing is known of those people, just that their names appear in the genealogical record, Etta later marrying a certain Mr. Benjamin Burns and they had six children. And then Mr. Levines married thirdly, in 1889, Margaret Mitchell from Scotland, whose name also appears in the ancestral records. So?