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I am Karen Louise Widener (58) and just happened across this website. I tried to email Lee Widner with a question but it was undeliverable, so I am posting it here.
My Dad (Granville Paul Widener)died this year and I have had so many bits of 'legendary' type of info on our family history, I was wondering how I could confirm any of it. Between my cousin and I, we have only a little, more recent information.
The big legend is that my great or great-great granddad was the son of the Widener who was a peer of the group of men who started the industrial revolution (railroads and steel mills) otherwise spoken as 'Widener-Fiske-Rockefeller and Mellon.' There were supposedly 4 or 5 sons, and the youngest wanted to 'go west' and was told he would lose some of his inheritance if he went, but he went.
A few years later, he wired back that he had married a Cherokee and was forthwith disinherited from the family. The married couple resided in New Mexico. This story was taken mainly from a conversation my Dad had with the person at the front desk at Widener College in the 70's when my Dad made a quick visit there, not finding any real Wideners in town that day.
In reality, I have had in my possession (but no longer) proof of my great (or great-great?) grandfather's marrying a Cherokee squaw, picture and everything, and it was in New Mexico.
My Dad was a very peculiar person, an amazing inventor, who maintained a relatively impoverished state although worked among other successful people, many of which were millionaires and multi millionaires who were drawn to him like a magnet! Then if he got amongst the poor, they would 'crawl all over him' like he was their keeper.
My Dad was also an excellent 'survivalist' and taught us how to 'live on the land' like a frontiersman would.
Does anyone have any input on my next steps to nail the actual history down?
Thanks, Karen
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