The sweep of family history across the generations
Widow Patty Smith Swett and six children by two husbands were among the first settlers who staked claims in Wapello County near Ottumwa in May 1843
Isetta Stetson descended from early Massachusetts colonists, going all the way back to the Mayflower on one side. Nine generations later, her midwestern parents still upheld Yankee values
In December 1937, the Feidt and Lewi family members share a last holiday together
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country
Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American Revolution