Gallagher Mcleam Mccollum Bridge White
First let me tell you a little about the most exciting genealogy day of my life.
I was at Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati Ohio, researching my maiden name of "Bridge'when I found a large beautiful family plot full of Bridges. None of them mine!
So I started searching...
and found that my great grandfather, Harry Gibson Bridge was burried there with his wife, Clara Bridge in another plot.
Through the internment papers at the office of the cemetery. I found that My Great Great Grandfather, Harry Bridge Sr.and Great Great Grandmother, Margaret Bridge were also burried in that plot. Along with 6 people named Gallagher who were part owners of the plot. I had never heard of these Gallaghers before in my life.
So, I started searching....
My Great Great Grandfather, Harry Bridge Sr., According to the records he had been moved from another site in Spring grove Cemetery. The papers said he had been in the a family plot owned by David White and that his relationship to the owner of the lot was brother-in-law.I had never heard of this WHITE before.
So,I started searching...
and quickly found that my Great great Grandmother's maiden name was in fact WHITE.
So, I started searching and found the "White" plot with of coarse a big beautiful marker and all kinds of people that I had never heard of before.
So I started seaching...
and the list of Whites went on and on theres Nancy McCollum White ,David white, Archibald White, David J. White, Geo.Archibald Legleiter, Kathy White, Mary Loiuse White, and Archibald White 2. None of these turned out to me the Whites listed as my Great Great Grandmother's parents although they were her siblings and in-laws.
Then I remembered I had a whole list of Gallaghers spending forever burried with my Bridges.
So I started searching...
and in the internment papers at the office for these people I found Elizabeth Bell Gallagher, Margaret Gallagher, William J. Gallagher,Mary Gallagher, and Catherine Mccollum Gallagher.What??? I had seen the name McCollum before that day.
So, I went searching...
Nancy White and Catherine Gallagher turned out to be sisters. Their parents were Robert and Margaret McCollum
and I found a whole lot of people that I had never heard of before.
So, I started searching...
I found an underground cript with these people Isabel, Robert, Daniel, margaret, David Nancy samueland Agnus McCollum, and these people named McLean Mary Wm. Ann David James, Mary Ann, John, and Mrs. Mary Crane.
Isabel is the daughter of James and Ann McLean.
The mystery that I have is the relation of the Nancy McCollum White to my family.There was Nancy the mother of my Margaret and nancy a spose to Archibald White.
I'm pretty sure that this is not Margaret's mother.However, this would meen that Catherine Gallagher was the sister of My Great Great Grandmother's sister-in-law.
Why would she have purchased the plot with Margaret's son????
So , I am searching!!!!