Donaldsons on the Frontier
I have to admit that it wasn’t easy for me to become excited about researching the Donaldson family, my maternal grandfather’s family. Maybe it was because until my grandfather, Eddie Earl Donaldson, moved here in the 1910s, none of my direct Donaldson ancestors lived in southwestern Ohio. So, information on the Donaldson family wasn’t as easy for me to come by as it was for other branches of my family. For quite a while, I wasn’t able to trace any further back than my fourth great-grandfather, Ebenezer Donaldson and his wife, Rebecca Hillis Donaldson. Then one day I came across A History of the Donaldson Family and Its Connections by Alexander Donaldson on Google Books. The story told in this book of Ebenezer’s parents and grandparents, if accurate, is quite incredible. Personally, I am a bit of a skeptic about some of this story, since much of it was passed on through family tradition. I have found additional information from other sources, ...