12th GGF: William Kerlie was born in Scotland around 1535, reportedly at Cruggleton Castle, and his time and place of death are unknown. He was, presumably, Synthia's 12th great-grandfather. 

The Kerlie's in Cruggleton Castle: https://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Places/cruggleton.htm

https://archive.org/details/lifeofsirwilliam02carruoft/page/291/mode/1up?view=theater 

11th GGF:  William Kerlie was born in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland around 1563 and died at an unknown time in Scotland. He was, presumably, Synthia's 11th great-grandfather.  

10th GGF:  John Kirlie was born in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, January 20, 1583, and died around 1690 in Scotland. He was, presumably, Synthia's 10th great-grandfather.   

9th GGF:  Johne Kirlie was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, around 1605, and died in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, around 1690. He was, presumably, Synthia's 9th great-grandfather.  

8th GGF:  William Kirlie was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, March 17, 1633, and died in Portpatrick Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland,  February 19, 1673. He was, presumably, Synthia's 8th great-grandfather.   

7th GGF: John McKirlie was born December 5, 1658, in Glasgow, Argyll, Strathclyde, Scotland, and died February 17, 1748, in Ulster Province, Ireland. He was, presumably, Synthia's 7th great-grandfather.  

6th GGF: John Lamb or Lain McCurley, Sr., was born in Argyll, Strathclyde, Scotland, around 1683, and died in St. Andrew's Parish, Charleston, South Carolina, February 17, 1758 . He was, presumably, Synthia's 6th great-grandfather.  

5th GGF: Abraham Moses McCurley was born in Antrim, Ulster Province, in Northern Ireland, April 23, 1708, and died in June of 1787 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was, presumably, Synthia's 5th great-grandfather.  

4th GGF: Abraham Moses McCurley, Jr., was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, around 1755, and died in Maury, Tennessee, around 1820. He was, presumably, Synthia's 4th great-grandfather.  

3rd GGF:  Abraham Moses McCurley was born in Virginia February 26, 1782, and died in Pocahontas Bend, Illinois, on September 5, 1843.  He was Synthia's 3rd Great Grandfather.

2nd GGF: George Washington McCurley was born in Tennessee on December 21, 1808, and died in Texas in February of 1857.  He was Synthia's 2nd Great Grandfather.

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Adult Life: George followed his brother Jonas to Texas and developed McCurley Prairie. Details here: https://twu.edu/media/documents/history-government/Flood-Waters-Ibid-Spring-2016.pdf. 

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GGF:  George Collins McCurley was born in Vandalia, Illinois, June 10, 1844 and died in Texas August 7, 1932. He was Synthia's Great Grandfather. 

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Andrew Jackson "Jack" McCurley was born in Texas February 27, 1875, and died in Texas May 11, 1980. He was Synthia's Grandfather. 

(https://www.mccurleymuseum.com/mccurley-museum/mccurley-family/family-exhibits/andrew-jackson-mccurley)

Birth/childhood: Jack was born February 27, 1875 in Denton County, Texas on McCurley Prairie. The 1880 census shows him living in Precinct No. 8, Denton County, Texas, on June 11th 1880, with his father, George Collins McCurley, 34, and his mother, Permelia White McCurley, 31, as well as his siblings, Mary, 13, John J., 8, William, 6, and Robert S., 3, as well as his mother's brother, James R. White, 16. 

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Anne Berneice McCurley was born on McCurley Prairie in Texas in April 20, 1928, and died in Burleson, Texas in May 10, 1993. Anne was Synthia's mother. 

Birth/childhood: Anne was born April 20, 1928 on McCurley Prairie in Denton County, Texas, USA. Anne was the 11th known child born to her mother, Maud Ann Crites McCurley, and the 10th known child born to her father, Andrew Jackson "Jack" McCurley.  Maud was 40 or 43 years old (records vary) when Anne was born and Jack was 53 years old. One child born to Anne's parents before Anne, Lucy Laverne (1925-1925) died in infancy. Jack and Maud had four more babies after Anne, but three of them also died in infancy. Anne spoke of life on McCurley Prairie as extremely harsh. She reported working in the fields plowing, planting, weeding, picking fruits and vegetables, and sowing/tilling the fields, with her parents and siblings, for many hours every day in oppressive Texas heat with little to no relief. The difficulties Anne reported from her youth were mostly about living conditions that were a part of being in a 3rd generation pioneer farming family in Texas in the 1930s and 40s: unrelenting heat, scarcity of resources, hunger, lack of comfortable accomodations, etc. She reported, for example, that all the children slept in one room on the floor for most of her life. 

Adult life: Anne told of leaving home when she was a young woman to go live with her older sister, Helen (born in 1921), and work, in Dallas, Texas, which was somewhat near to McCurley Prairie.  Anne had a very difficult early life, along with her siblings. However, she also had a remarkably troubled, difficult, and ultimately tragic adult life compared to her siblings, all of whom achieved and maintained wealth and stability throughout their lives. Anne had 21 nieces and nephews from her full siblings and they all enjoyed the advantages of generational wealth in their childhood and adult lives. Seventeen of her nieces and nephews  became well educated, successful adults with families that enjoyed generational prosperity. One nephew died young while saving others in a school fire. One nephew and one niece died young of disease. One nephew had severe emotional/substrance abuse issues throughout his long, yet prosperous, life.   

Children: Anne gave birth to a child, Cheryl "Darlene," in 1948, and gave her up for adoption. Darlene was unknown to the family until Darlene sought out Anne to reunite shortly before Anne's death. Anne and Eugene "Gene" LaFontaine had two daughters together, Lanette Verne, December 29, 1953, and Synthia Delina, February 12, 1957.  Anne and Gene marrried in 1955. There is no record of their divorce, but Gene had remarried by September of 1957, the year Synthia was born. Anne had been married twice before and was married at least three times afterward. Gene was married twice before marrying Anne and at least three times afterward. Ultimately, Anne had a total of three children and Gene had at least nine. 

    Death: Anne first reported feeling ill in January of 1993. She died May 10, 1993, of advanced lung cancer, at her daughter's home in Burleson, Texas, with her three daughters at her side. 

Documentation in Ancestry.com includes public records and personal knowledge. 

Synthia Delina LaFontaine TX NY FL
Birth/childhood: Born Fenbruary 12, 1957, in Florence Nightingale Hospital, part of Baylor Medical Center,  in Dallas, Texas. 

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