There might have been more to your ancestor’s migration on the frontier than heading to new opportunities, cheaper land, and fewer nearby neighbors. Is it possible that your ancestor was migrating along with other members of the same denomination? The connection might not have been biological kin but instead spiritual brothers and sisters.
Of course some of those spiritual brothers and sisters could have been biological relatives, but don’t discount religion as a common connection among migrants. One of my ancestral families migrated from Kentucky to Indiana then to Illinois and Iowa along with biological relatives and members of the same faith community.
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