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Surnames: Kenney, Chance, McNamer
Classification: Query
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I recently came into the following information:
My great great Grandmother McNamer's name was Martha Jane Chance and she was the
daughter of Thomas H. Chance, b. Abt 1821 in Maryland, and Julina, surname unknown, b. in
Kentucky. Martha was born abt 1855 in Iowa.
She had two brothers, Abraham J. Chance, b about 1863
and
Thomas H. Chance, b. about 1865.
This information is from the 1880 Census of Osborne County, Kansas. Martha, a widow, was
living in her parents home with her three children. Olley, born about 1776, Jennett E.,
b. about 1878 and Benjamin Franklin, b. 21 January 1880 and the surname was Kenney.
Benjamin is my grandfather.
From a different source I learned that Martha married Isaac McNamer
about 1882. Isaac was born in Davis County, Iowa about 1856/57. He apparantly adopted
Martha's daughter and my grandfather, but my mother and I have never heard of anyone
by the name of Olley in the family.
If anyone has any information about the people mentioned here, you can contact me at my
new e-amil address:
ADStruble1955(a)aol.com
Best Wishes for a Happy and SAFE Holiday Season,
Anita McNamer Struble, Family Historian