The Glinski family archive
Father’s side: Glinski. Matthew’s father, James Madison Glinski (1952–), was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan. His father, Guy Donald Glinski (1913–2013), a carpenter born in Portage County, Wisconsin, lived to 100. Guy’s father Frederick William Glinski (1873–1940) was a dairy farmer in Shawano County. He came to Wisconsin as a small boy with his parents Christoph (Christ) and Ernestine Glinski. The family left Hamburg in May 1879 from Winkenhagen, Kreis Mohrungen, East Prussia, now Winiec in Poland. So the family story of “Poland” is right about the place but not the people: they were German-speaking Lutherans from East Prussia, on the Baltic coast near today’s Lithuania and Latvia, which fits Matthew’s DNA result. Guy’s mother, Bessie Mae Wilmot, came from an old Wisconsin family.
Father’s side: Fuson. James’s mother, Flossie Helen Fuson (1914–1980), was a farmer’s daughter from near Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee. She married three times (Austin Braswell, a Holt, then Guy Glinski in 1950) and died in Fort Lauderdale. Her parents were James Madison Fuson (1885–1959) and Dora Kittie Pedigo, so James Madison Glinski was named after his grandfather.
Mother’s side. Matthew’s maternal grandparents, Edward Charles Patrick Turner (1933–1987) and Lucille E. Rossiter (1931–2012), married in Philadelphia in 1955 and moved to Fort Lauderdale in the 1960s. Edward was the son of two Irish immigrants: John Thomas Turner (1902–1977), from County Wexford, and Margaret McCann (1890–1978), from County Mayo, who grew up in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon. Lucille was the daughter of Frank B. Rossiter (1908–1991) and Lucille H. Garber (1914–1998), both Philadelphia-born.
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