Family Talk: Walking where my antecedents walked

Here are the women who prompted this trip and to trace my Doyle family footsteps. My mother, born Jean Logan to Wilhemina Christina Doyle (quite the fancy name, n'est-ce pas?) whose sister Inez Doyle is shown here with Grace Sullivan Doyle (who married the one brother William).

Where did I go on this trip? To towns (in which there are villages) along the west side of the Hudson River, sited on what used to be referred to as the Leurenkill Road ("kill" old Dutch for creek).

First stop: Ellenville village in the town of Wawarsing, where my grandmother "Billie" (she of the full name Wilhemina) was born and from where her father--at age 19 came West to eastern Montana to serve as the first administrator of the Ft. Peck Assinaboin Indian Reservation in 1887.

Objective: to find his parent's graves. They came from Ireland, came to NY through Canada, settled in Ellenville and and died in there.
Found 'em! "Mother and Father" Christine Ulrich, wife of Daniel L. Myers born May 28, 1821. Died Feb.26, 1876" Time conspiring with weather is wearing away the inscriptions. Hence, the scribe, Great-Great-Great Granddaughter Judith. An awesome moment, truly.

Then the other marker of William Doyle who died at age 44 in 1868. His marker almost unreadable now, and pushed over by tree roots, and located other side of cemetary side-by-side of his first wife, Mary Dailey Doyle who remarried and didn't die until 1901.

Here endeth this abbreviated (truly, trust me!) digest of all the special ancestry moments provided me by my cousin (*her* great-great grandfather was brother to mine, but hers stayed in the Catskill Mt. area)

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