This entry is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series. This week’s prompt is LARGE FAMILY. To see other posts in this series, view my 52 Ancestors in 2019 index.
Large families seem to run in my Smith genes. My mother was the oldest of 11 children, and my ancestors Lot Smith and Elizabeth Loving had sixteen!
My great-grandparents Thomas Leonard Smith and Lillie Modena Ingram also had a large family, but it was a blended brood of his, hers, and theirs. They were kind of like a 1920s version of the Brady Bunch — with an unfortunate mix of the Bible’s book of Job, too.
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