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While 33-year-old MARY TAYLOR and husband JOHN were settling their primitive Nebraska homestead in the spring of 1864, her brother and sister-in-law (another couple named John and Mary) were residing back in the comforts of old Scotland just 21 miles southwest of Aberdeen, alongside the stream of Carron Water at New Mill. Adjacent to John and Mary Wishart's house in the little valley next to Stony Hill lived MARY's parents and youngest sister, Helen. On Wednesday, June 8, Mary (Kinnear) Wishart gave birth to twin girls in Kincardineshire. The pair of new babies were named for their grandmother and aunt living next door to their New Mill home, and their births were recorded in the church over at nearby Glenbervie. In Nebraska Territory, MARY TAYLOR herself was again pregnant by year's end, expecting a new infant to be born in midyear of 1865. |
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