This morning I was looking over my family tree chart to get a feel for how it was looking these days, (and I must say, my efforts have filled it out pretty well in the last few years), when I realized that my great great grandparents Elza Shepard and Jane Buchanan were second cousins. Susan Smith, who married Hartley Shepard, was the daughter of Catharine Atkinson, William A. Buchanan was the son of Rebecca Atkinson, sister of Catharine. Susan's son Elza married William's daughter Jane.
That also means we descend from James Atkinson and Margaret Brown twice. Not an unusual occurrence at all, but one I just realized.
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Elza Shepard and Jane Buchanan, 2nd cousins, my great great grandparents on my maternal size. They are sitting on chairs that are on an incline. Hilly country in West Virginia.
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