DAR

After working on this project for 35 years, I am finally getting the proper paperwork together to submit to the DAR for membership.  My problem isn't finding the Patriot who qualifies.  I have located half-a-dozen from the ancestors of Grandfather Davis.  I have a couple of little things to pull together and the submission will be made in January or February.  The part I thought would be the hardest wasn't too hard after all.

My grandma was married 3 times.  The first two marriages ended in divorce.  I think this was unusual for that time period.  When I asked Grandma about this she changed the subject.  She did say she met the first two at church.

In preparing for the DAR I had to find the marriage license for the first and third marriages, as well as the second, which is my direct line.  Thanks to a couple of cousins (Thank you Cindy and Alice.) this has been done.  I was so happy these were both easy to find.  They were necessary to show the name changes.  My grandfather was the middle husband.  She was born a Crone.  We needed the first marriage license to show how she went from Crone to Fulton.  She signed her second license (The one I came under.) with her first married name.  We needed the third one, to Mr. Smith, to show how she was a Smith on her death certificate.

I know I have some cousins who will be very interested to hear more of the Fulton tale.