
My grandmother died 10 years before I was born. Dad was 15
years old. She and McCabe had divorced some years earlier
but I have yet to look for their divorce records. She died in 1940, the same
year her parents, Louis and Marguerite
(Steward) Hennequin, died. They, too, had been divorced.
Marie's paternal ancestry has been well established but I've not yet
found the parents of her maternal grandparents. Her mtDNA, which my father holds in each of his cells, tells
us something about her deep ancestry. As it turns out, it's very rare.