Betty X was born November 5, 1927 to Glenn Cashion and Helen.[1] She was left with St. Joseph's Hospital in Asheville as a ward of the state of North Carolina. As a baby, she most probably lived with the Sisters of Mercy, who ran the hospital. She was fostered January 20, 1928 and adopted September 5, 1928 by Walter Gaulden and Mary Ethel Whitesides and raised as their own.[2]
Her Adopted family profile is Betty Jean Gaulden.
Betty Jean's search for her Birth family is chronicled in a series of blog posts on Grandma's Genes Blog.
This week's featured connections are Redheads: Betty is 20 degrees from Catherine of Aragón, 22 degrees from Clara Bow, 29 degrees from Julia Gillard, 14 degrees from Nancy Hart, 17 degrees from Rutherford Hayes, 18 degrees from Rita Hayworth, 23 degrees from Leonard Kelly, 22 degrees from Rose Leslie, 21 degrees from Damian Lewis, 19 degrees from Maureen O'Hara, 26 degrees from Jopie Schaft and 34 degrees from Eirik Thorvaldsson on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
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