Where My Ancestors Came From and Where They Lived

My ancestors came from all over Europe.

The La Tourettes originated in Italy. They migrated to France, became Huguenots, and my La Tourette ancestors came to America, lived on Staten Island, then in Bound Brook, New Jersey; Covington, Fountain Co., Indiana; Fairfield, Jefferson Co., Iowa, a farm near Canby, Clackamas Co., Oregon, and my grandparents did a stint during World War II in Thailand and settled in Modesto, California. They became Seventh-Day Adventists.

The Ashworths originated in Middleton, Co. Lancashire, England and my Ashworth ancestors lived in Co. Wicklow, Ireland for a time, came to America, lived in New Jersey a short while and settled in Pomeroy, Meigs Co., Ohio. My grandparents lived in Rockford, Winnebago Co., Illinois and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

They divorced and my grandfather and step-grandmother lived in Garden Grove and Lake Isabella in southern California and spent their last years in Nashville, Tennessee with their daughter's family. My grandmother lived in Calimesa, then Loma Linda and spent her last days in Buhler, Kansas with her granddaughter's family.

The Gaedes and Patzkowskis originated in the Danzig area of Prussia, immigrated with other Mennonites to central and south Russia when invited by Catherine the Great, came to America in the late 1800s and settled in Ebenfeld, just south of Hillsboro, Marion Co., Kansas.

Some became Mennonite Brethren; others became Seventh-Day Adventists. And my great-grandparents were missionaries in Brazil for a few years and settled in Loma Linda, California.

The Rupps and Ehlers came from Germany; the Sponbergs and Strombergs came from Sweden; and the Ericksons came from Norway.

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