Margaret (Robe) Summitt
Honor Code SignatorySigned 23 Jan 2018 | 99,761 contributions | 2,066 thank-yous | 5,696 connections
Signed 23 Jan 2018 | 99,761 contributions | 2,066 thank-yous | 5,696 connections
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of Stanley Robe
and Alice (Mueller) Robe
Sister of
[private brother (1950s - unknown)]
Mother of
[private daughter (1990s - unknown)] and [private son (1990s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Jan 2018
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Margaret (Robe) Summitt is a member of the Appalachia Project (North Central Appalachia Team).
Margaret (Robe) Summitt participated with Western Red Cedars during the 2021 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 61 previously unsourced profiles.
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Margaret (Robe) Summitt participated with Western Red Cedars during the 2021 Connect-a-Thon, and added 102 connections.
Margaret (Robe) Summitt participated with Western Red Cedars during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon, and added 125 connections.
Margaret was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!
Margaret has participated in the USBH Connecting Challenge.
Biography
educated in Los Angeles public schools; B. A., English, UCLA, 1976; M. A., English and Creative Writing, Syracuse University, 1978; Ph.D., English Literature, UCLA, 1988
My interest in genealogy began with annual trips to Oregon to visit grandparents, aunts and uncles. The stories told around my uncles' fireside in Eugene, Oregon, with my great-grandfather's mantel clock ticking away the minutes, were heard over and over until I began to check them out for myself. Once it was discovered that I had an interest in family history, I was given an incredible legacy of heirlooms and photos.
In graduate school I used research skills to track down ancestors on microfilm and in rare books.
Connections to other Wikitree researchers: Baty-260 Common ancestors Beals-61 and Clayton-159
Crane-1143 Common ancestor Nosler-19
Ford-12624 Common ancestors Frame-345 and Donnard-1 also Thompson-16096 and Downard-26 and due to pedigree collapse Downard-27 and O'Neal-473
Johnson-43462 Common ancestors Cowgill-28 and Baker-6430
Kelley-4120 Common ancestors Schilling-812 and Koerth-18
Mason-4486 Common ancestors Kirk-2060 and Rose-11599
McIntosh-3288 Common ancestors Kirk-2060 and Rose-11599
Robe-316 Common ancestors Robe-52 and Blair-4947
Senger-132 Common ancestors Michael-71 and Kelso-658
Vincent-18 Common ancestors Kessinger-87 and Fischerin-2
Worley-2560 Common ancestors Michael-71 and Kelso-658
Advance Directive
In the event of my death, I desire that the Wikitree team assume management of the profiles for which I may be manager at the time. It is my desire that the profiles of living people should not be deleted.
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Margaret Robe at registration.
52 Ancestors 52 Weeks 2019 A different ancestral surname each week.
- Week 1: First: Elijah Embree Smith
- Week 2: Challenge: William Robe
- Week 3: Unusual Name: Banner Shields
- Week 4: I'd Like to Meet: Margaret Sweeten
- Week 5: At the Library: Anna Louise Nickoley
- Week 6: Surprise: Marie Dorothee Hourve
- Week 7: Love: William Walker
- Week 8: Family Photo: Schilling Family
- Week 9: At the Courthouse: William Downard
- Week 10: Bachelor Uncle: Andrew Stern
- Week 11: Large Family: John Kirk
- Week 12: Twelve: George Mason I
- Week 13: In the Paper: Edward Otto Mueller
- Week 14: Brick Wall: Sebastian "Boston" Nosler
- Week 15: DNA: Anna Christina Winkler
- Week 16: Out of Place: Mathias Kessinger and Andreas Kissinger
- Week 17: At Worship: David Frame
- Week 18: Road Trip: Jared Michael
- Week 19: Nurture: Margaret "Peggy" Weir
- Week 20: Nature: Anne Dorothee Rätz
- Week 21: Military: Johann Daniel Koerth
- Week 22: At the Cemetery: Mary Kelso
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Margaret's formal name
- full middle name (A.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (2)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (2)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret:
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Michael (Kelley) Kaehler 
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M663908 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A362209 [compare], Ancestry member mkaehler2001
+
Living DNA
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~0.78%
Clyde Senger :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member clyde1929
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Margaret:
- 300,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Margaret Summitt, and thank you from all of us! Feb 8, 2024.
- Margaret Summitt is a Wonderful WikiTreer Feb 4, 2023.
- Margaret Summitt is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 28, 2022.
- Margaret Summitt is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 24, 2022.
- 200,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Margaret Summitt, and thank you from all of us! Aug 22, 2022.
- Margaret Summitt is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 2, 2020.
Featured Female Poet connections: Margaret is 14 degrees from Anne Bradstreet, 24 degrees from Ruth Niland, 26 degrees from Karin Boye, 24 degrees from 照 松平, 14 degrees from Anne Barnard, 36 degrees from Lola Rodríguez de Tió, 25 degrees from Christina Rossetti, 17 degrees from Emily Dickinson, 28 degrees from Nikki Giovanni, 20 degrees from Isabella Crawford, 20 degrees from Mary Gilmore and 17 degrees from Elizabeth MacDonald on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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Most of the people that came to the Kingston area in this time period came from either Revolutionary Loyalists displaced by the revolution or New York / Vermont residents that came for the free land (after the revolutionary war the economy was really bad).
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I'll create a profile for both women and put what I have for them. So many of the early records did not survive .. so it can be hard to pinpoint the family's origins .. So many brick walls ...
The profile for Mary Catherine Stout has been edited and corrected. She was not the wife of Daniel J Shaver, son of Polser and Elizabeth Gillespie Shaver. I contacted Findagrave creators with sources for the change. It was the 1880 census that had Daniel J, Mary E and two children #205, and the fact that just below #207 Mary E, daugher of Daniel and Catherine Wilson Stout, was living with them and named all of their children. Just letting you know Sharon Hardman-759
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