Forejustice
Every family has its myths mysteries.
This book was borne of the desire of Mary Edna Bogart’s children – Andrea Sherrer Harding, Hans Sherrer and Stephen LaFrenier – to learn their mother’s family history beyond the little they had known growing up. They bits and pieces they knew included that they had an Aunt Marjorie who they had last seen before their mother died in 1964 when they were still in school, and that their Grandpa Bogart died around 1970. What were the huge gaps to their mother’s family story they didn’t know?
Their investigation started from not even knowing where their mother had been born. This book comprises as complete a history of Mary Bogart’s life and family, and that of her sister Jessie Marjorie Mowerson, as Mary’s children were able to reconstruct five decades after their mother’s death, and with all her immediate relatives no longer living. Among other things they discovered their earliest ancestors on their mother’s father’s side immigrated in 1660 from Holland to the American colony of New York, and that their mother's father migrated to the Pacific Northwest from Illinois in the late 1800s. They also discovered that their earliest ancestors on their mother’s mother’s side had immigrated in the 1700s to the Americas from Scotland, and they had been among the crew of John Jacob Astor’s fur trade expedition that in 1810 founded Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River, which was the first American-
Published August 2013
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