My Maternal Roots Of Alzheimer's Family
Thankfully, my paternal ancestry is much more detailed. My grandmother has Alzheimer's disease and cannot remember anything, but, thankfully, her husband has studied his own son’s genealogy before so he knows both sides of the story. My grandfather’s parents are Ralph Douglas Bratton, and Lucille Norman Bratton. I can trace their genealogy back to 1720 with my great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather John Bratton, who was born in Scotland. The majority of his ancestors were farmer, who were migrating from Scotland to Randolph, North Carolina to Ida, Arkansas, and finally they settled in Heber Springs, Arkansas. Some of the most memorable people in that line were my my great-great-great-great grandfather Benjamin “Uncle Cuff” Bratton,