In Grandma's Boxes

In 1999 I inherited several cardboard boxes from my maternal grandmother, labeled "Lovett-Keyser-Stowell-Campbell Family History". In them were newspaper clippings, obituaries, keepsakes, wills, estates, letters, copies of family bible pages, family trees, and best of all, photographs, of Grandma's relatives and ancestors. Grandma was a genealogist.

She had inherited the obsession from her paternal grandfather, John Howard Keyser, through her father, Charles Mortimer Keyser. Her brother Frank shared the thirst for ancestral knowledge, as did her son, Charles Sumner Stowell. All of them contributed to her collection by means of library research, letters of inquiry to distant cousins, and even travel to England to search for forbears.

In the 1970s, my mother Anne Stowell Moller added my father's lines, and I in my turn have added my husband's. All of this research, with the exception of my own, was conducted prior to the internet age. Grandma and the others would be gratified to know it can now be shared for the benefit of all.

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of John Lovett


• Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Michael Keyser


• Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Samuel Stowell


• Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Godfrey Haines