Sylvia Benton
Honor Code SignatorySigned 7 Jun 2017 | 9,097 contributions | 912 thank-yous | 671 connections
Born in North Carolina. The next 4-5 years spent with an Army Dad, going from North Carolina to Alabama to Germany to Washington to Georgia and finally to Virginia, where I stayed from the age of 6 to 21. Then I returned to North Carolina.
I have a branch of family that was part of the movement of Moravians down the Great Wagon Road into North Carolina. I love visiting their graves and seeing the headstones written in German.
My French lineage actually comes from Alsace-Lorraine, Ingersheim, France, Calvados, Lion-sur-mir, France and Calvados, Hermanville, France. I became quite proficient at searching the Calvados Archives and the Haut-Rhin Archives. My Irish lineage comes from Londonderry, Ireland. John Glen immigrated around 1750 and settled in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Soon after, the name began to appear as Glenn.
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