It is an astonishing reply with at least 16 items about John R. Allison. This is a huge chuck of genealogical facts delivered by an expert researcher. This person checked cemetery and civil war records, census pages, the National Archive.
We are flabbergasted at the volume of the information. In fact, we discount a lot of it because, well, we are not far enough along in our search to verify that most every item in this astonishing pile of info will turn out to be true. This message tells us:
John R, mother named Sarah
John R. sister named Mary
John R, married twice, first to Catherine Evans , then to a young woman, Conie Shamberger
John R civil war pensioner.…. maybe he wasn't a deserter.
Who was that masked man (or woman), who swooped in and delivered this huge pile of information? We don't know. We only know PaSain by his/her Ancestry.com user name. We do know this person is one of those we call the genealogical angels. The Search Sisters are reminded of a delightful truth about genealogy. There is a huge community of people out their who are willing to spend a lot of time helping others... for nothing in return. PaSain, is one of those people. Angels is what Stella and I call them. We are intensely, eternally grateful for the gift of their interventions.
Source:
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.texas.unknown/17036.1/mb.ashx
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