Back to genealogy. March is Women's History Month, so does anyone have a unique and fascinating women in their family that lived in Gallia County? Tell us her story. I have an interesting story about the sister of my 4th Great Grandfather James William Glenn and daughter of William & Ann Curry Glenn. Weltha Electa Glenn Adney DOB 11 Jan 1811 and DOD 30 Aug 1868, both in Huntington Township. This was taken from an Adney Family Book --------- The story goes ---- According to nephews and nieces of Weltha Electa Glenn Adney, (in Adney's book), she was tall, fair, had blue eyes and was "marvelous". She was an animated person. "When she wasn't talking, she was laughing, and always on the go." She and her family didn't run on any schedule. They might not eat dinner till 11:00 P.M. You could find her and her children still in bed at noon. They lived a free lifestyle. They pictured her running with two pails of water jumping over the "low bars with a whoop like an Indian." Sounds like 4th great grandaunt Weltha Electa was a woman ahead of her time, she could fit into today's lifestyle very easily. You need to know that Weltha Electa was Scotch-Irish (Ulster Scot) so that may account for her fair looks and unconventional lifestyle. I would have loved to have known this woman, to have lived in this manner in that time frame, she was a woman before her time. There are several people on this list that are direct descendants of her, lucky you I am jealous. If you are really lucky maybe you inherited some of her loving and free spirited genes. I hope her brother lived the same lifestyle and passed them on down the line to his descendants. I know many of you have interesting ancestors with wonderful stories, please share. Mary Lee

Women's History Month, a couple years ago the French Colony DAR had a wonderful program called the "Gallant Gals of Gallia County" Many of us portrayed women in Gallia County's history. All of the woman we portrayed had a special place in the history of Gallia County. We portrayed, Dr. Ella Lupton, Maybelle McInytre, "Grandma" Emma Caldwell Gatewood, Hannah Maxon, Permila Atwood, "Mad" Ann Bailey, Bernice Borden, Alma Holzer, Lillian Mitchell, Marie Menager. We had also hoped to have Irene Miles. I have a brief history of each. Maybelle Small McInytre was a distant cousin and her husband was a journalist and she was a great business woman managing her husband's career. Their home "Gatewood" is on the historical homes in Gallipolis and it was bought from her grandfather (my gggrandfather) for an anniversary present by her husband Odd McIntyre. Odd died before the renovations were completed I have letters from Maybelle to my great-grandfather who was the foreman overseeing the renovations. I have given a set of these the Gallia County Genealogical Society. "Grandma" Emma Caldwell Gatewood was my great-grandmother and she was known to many through out the country as the "Hiking Grandma" as she was the first woman at the age of 67 (1955) that she hiked the 2050 miles from Georgia to Maine of the Appalachian Trail in one season starting May 3 and ending Sept. 25. She would hike this trail twice more and at the age of 70 she would hike in the Adirondacks in New York and climb six of the highest mountains when she was 70 years old . The amazing thing about Grandma is that she did all of this and many more hikes, at her age and after raising 11 children and divorcing an abusive husband and working hard her entire life to run an farm and raise this family. I have given speeches on Grandma to several organization over the years, I could talk for hours about her as I knew her well, she died in 1973 at the age of 85. I have always believed Grandma was an inspiration to other women like all of the woman our DAR portrayed. I'm sure all of us have some woman in her family that has inspired others maybe without even knowing it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Lee Davis Marchi" <mlmquilt@zoomnet.net> To: <OHGALLIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 10:55 PM Subject: [OHGALLIA-L] Women's History Month > Back to genealogy. > > March is Women's History Month, so does anyone have a unique and fascinating women in their family that lived in Gallia County? Tell us her story. > > I have an interesting story about the sister of my 4th Great Grandfather James William Glenn and daughter of William & Ann Curry Glenn. Weltha Electa Glenn Adney DOB 11 Jan 1811 and DOD 30 Aug 1868, both in Huntington Township. > This was taken from an Adney Family Book --------- > The story goes ---- > According to nephews and nieces of Weltha Electa Glenn Adney, (in Adney's book), she was tall, fair, had blue eyes and was "marvelous". She was an animated person. "When she wasn't talking, she was laughing, and always on the go." She and her family didn't run on any schedule. They might not eat dinner till 11:00 P.M. You could find her and her children still in bed at noon. They lived a free lifestyle. They pictured her running with two pails of water jumping over the "low bars with a whoop like an Indian." > Sounds like 4th great grandaunt Weltha Electa was a woman ahead of her time, she could fit into today's lifestyle very easily. You need to know that Weltha Electa was Scotch-Irish (Ulster Scot) so that may account for her fair looks and unconventional lifestyle. > > I would have loved to have known this woman, to have lived in this manner in that time frame, she was a woman before her time. There are several people on this list that are direct descendants of her, lucky you I am jealous. If you are really lucky maybe you inherited some of her loving and free spirited genes. I hope her brother lived the same lifestyle and passed them on down the line to his descendants. > > I know many of you have interesting ancestors with wonderful stories, please share. > > Mary Lee > > > > > > > > ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== > Check the address you are replying to before sending your message. > > > > > _____________________________________________________ > This message scanned for viruses by CoreComm >