This week’s prompt for Amy Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge is: We will likely be plowing through a lot of snow by this time. What ancestor had a lot of struggles to plow through? Or take it more literally… It’s up to you. I have decided to take it literal. Hubby’s mother was a Deyoe by birth and her grandfather, and his father before him, was farmers in New York . While the Deyo family there is widely recorded, there is little about the Deyoe family, who may or may not be related. My husband’s maternal grandfather was Morgan Gramelia Deyoe (1877-1944). He was born in New York to Daniel Gramelia and Louisa Sharp Deyoe. Morgan was born in Greene County , NY but did not take to farming. Instead he ends up in Philadelphia working on Hog Island . There he was, in 1918, a mechanic for the International Ship Building . I have never been able to confirm when exactly Daniel died. I found Louisa, a widow, living in New Jersey in 1910. In researching for ...
by Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman