Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

The genealogy blog called Genea-Musings has a little "mission" every Saturday night. I haven't done one in awhile-- here we go! 

The mission tonight: 

1) What was your mother's father's full name?

2) What is your mother's father's matrilineal line? That is, his mother's mother's mother's ... back to the most distant female ancestor in that line.  Provide her ahnentafel number (relative to you), and her birth and death years and places.

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, or in a Comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please put a link to your post in Comments here

(You can view the entire post here)

Here are my answers: 

1. What was your mother's father's full name? 

   My mother's father's name was Harold Earl Mendenhall.

2. What is your mother's father's matrilineal line? 
~Harold's mother was Edna Grace Niles (1894-1933). She married 2x- Earl Dwight Mendenhall (1916-1993) & then later, Fillmore Hax Chapman (1886-1941). She died at the age of 39 of a coronary embolism 6 hours after the birth of her 4th child.

~Edna's mother was Anna E. Shomber (1868-1947). She married Joseph Niles (1857-1933) on 19 Jul 1884. She died at the age of 79 of cancer along with cholecystitis.

~Anna's mother was Mary Elizabeth Catharine Zacharias (1839-1911). She was born in Germany. She married John Shomber (1836-1917) on 22 May 1859. She died at the age of 72.

Sadly, that's where I hit a brick wall.