Kristi Moore

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My fathers side has been in America since before the Revolution, most since around 1700, and a few even before then. Settling in the Carolinas and slowly moving west or south through KY, TN, GA, IL, and MO, and converging in the Arkansas Ozarks in the 1880s. Primarily Scots Irish, English, and Native American (proven with DNA and papertrail) . Surnames include Moore, Still, Alexander, Tucker, Jenkins, London, Poe, Long, Johnson, Asher, Sweat, Bunch, Henson, Lillard, Dunn, Boatman, Wood, Inman, Lawler, Hagerman, Harman, Robison, Burrows, Langston, Bearden, Sellers, Pennington, Osborne, Fowler, Lindsey, Catching, Smith, Hearn, Hurn, and Barber.

My mothers mothers family has also been in America since before the Revolution, and include more than a few Mayflower passengers, but instead of Appalachia and the South, they settled in New England, Vermont and NY and migrated west across PA, Ohio, and settled in Northern Illinois in the 1840s. Surnames include: Hoisington, Steele, Peck, Lacy, Clayton (changed from Crouch), Hubbard, Stebbins, Stowell, Frost, McDonald, Dunham, Griffing, Preston, Hawley, Taylor, Cruson, Clevenger, Norton, Smith, Woodmansee, Mason, Lytle, Wright, Shipley, Day, McConnell, and Hollcraft. Most came from England, Scotland, and the Netherlands with quite a few being Dutch Huguenots settling in Colonial New York/Amsterdam.

My mothers fathers family are relatively recent immigrants compared to the rest of my family. All 4 of my Grandfathers grandparents were born and raised in Sweden and emigrated to America in the 1890s. They all met and married in Rockford, IL where I was born and raised and where my grandparents, who are in their 90s, still live. 1 set of Grandpas grandparents relocated to central Wisconsin to farm but several of their sons returned to Rockford to work, where there was a very large Swedish communtiy. Surnames include: Wernberg, Hallquist, Sjösten, Swemberg/Svenberg, Andersdotter, Spång, Josephson/Josefsson, Jonasdotter, Persson, Nilsson, and Gustafsdotter.