My Ancestors

The Nugents, Weintrauts, Deals,

Driskells and Brummages

Her favorite song Oh, Danny Boy,
is by the Notre Dame Bag Pipe Band

This page is a very humble attempt to trace my family.

I invite and would appreciate letters from those who

may have more information about my ancestors.

My mother Bertha Louise Nugent was born

December 5, 1886 in London, Indiana

and passed away on March 17, 1971.

Her father William Nugent was from Kentucky,

her mother Mary Deal was born in Jackson County, Illinois,

near the site of the Cahokia Mounds,

the ancestral lands of many Shawnee people.

Her sisters were Biney, Gertrude, Ola and Rhoda.

My mother was a nurse for many years of her life.

My father Frank Phillip Weintraut was born

April 21, 1885 in Shelbyville, Indiana

and passed away on January 24, 1960.

His parents were John Henry and Mary Thibow Weintraut,

whose ancestors came to this country from Prussia,

by way of the Pennsylvania Dutch country.

John and Mary lived on the Waldron family farm in Indiana

and had twelve children, including:

Arthur, Bernard, Clara, Clarence, Charlie, Earl,

Harry, Linnie, Marie, Mathias, Willie and my father Frank.

My father was an excellent carpenter

and carpet layer most of his life.

He attended St. Joseph's church in Shelbyville

and St. Phillip's church in Indianapolis.

My father and mother had three children together,

my sister Wanda Ballinger and my brother

Frank Dale Weintraut, who are both now deceased and me.

My mother married William Wright on

December 8, 1905 in Shelbyville, Indiana and

they had 15 children together before he died.

There were 18 of us altogether.

This Wright side of my family includes:

my brothers Carl, Harold, Herman, Leslie, Orville and

my sisters Gertrude, Marie and Violet, who are all deceased.

My oldest sister Grace died when I was very young,

her son Billy Hanson who lived for many years in Minnesota,

is now in South Carolina.

My sister Wanda Ballinger

My brother Frank "Buddy" Weintraut with my
granddaughter Jennifer Melissa Jones.

During the 1940's my parents lived in Cincinnati, Ohio

and worked at the Bullard's Department store.

More to come, still looking.........

Please write to me if you have any information

or can help fill in some of the missing pieces.

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