I belong to a Facebook group that focuses on the history of Summitville, Indiana, a city near several of our ancestral farms. Those family farms belonged to my ancestors: Ball, Clary, Greenlee, Jones, Noble, and Vinson.

A lady posted a photograph of William and Harriet Sayre Greenlee, my fourth great-grandparents. Susan Barton and I discovered that we are distant cousins from the line of Andrew Taylor Greenlee and Prudence Ball Greenlee.

William and Harriet were the parents of my third great-grandfather, Andrew Taylor Greenlee who married Prudence Ball, the daughter of William and Mary Ball.

William and Harriet Greenlee migrated in 1852 from the Kanawha River Valley near Charleston, Virginia, now West Virginia. They ventured with their thirteen children to Indiana in one of the Nineteenth Century’s most fierce snow storms where they held up in a cave for several days with other migrating families. Also with the family was my fifth great-grandmother, William’s widowed mother, Susan Musselman Greenlee.

William built a house, southeast of Forrestville Cemetery in the short lived hamlet of Forrestville, Indiana, on 1650 N and 300 W. In 1897,

William and Harriett Greenlee moved in 1897 to a house in Summitville.

William Greenlee: 25 Feb 1816 – 11 Jan 1898

Harriet Sayre Greenlee: 24 Jun 1822 – 13 Jan 1918

William Denmane Ball: 21 Apr 1822 – 21 Aug 1909

Mary McCrory Ball: 26 Mar 1828 – 17 Jan 1903

My lineage:

Susan Musselman Greenlee

William Greenlee 

Andrew Taylor Greenlee

Anna Greenlee Jones

Mary Belle Jones Clary

Donna Mae Clary Barmes

Diana Kay Barmes Haas

Darin Lee Jolliffe-Haas

I appreciate Susan sharing several photographs of my fourth and fifth great-grandparents.