Wandering Around The Family Tree

  Here are the June  Birthday's from Mary Jane Kellam's Birthday Book June 4 Mrs. James Stuart Geo. F. Ferirs June 6 Mrs Rosetta Tyler Hankins N.Y. Rosetta Ross was born 6 June 1819 in New York, the daughter of John Ross and Love Hurd. She married Benjamin Tyler, son of Benjamin Tyler and Sarah Kellam in August 1839. Rosetta Ross Tyler died 3 April 1888.  Rosetta Ross Tyler's relationship to Mary Jane Kellam is where my family tree ties itself up in knots. Looking at the closest relationship between Mary Jane Kellam and Rosetta Ross, they were first cousins once removed, both descended from John Ross and Sophia Tyler.  Or they were related in this way - Rosetta was Mary Jane Kellam's husband's mother's half-sister. Benjamin Tyler and Rosetta Ross were step-siblings - her father married his mother after their first spouses died. Mary Ellen Ross was both Benjamin and Rosetta's half-sister, sharing a mother with Benjamin and a father with with Rosetta. Mary Ell...