| O'Brien-Tribble intermarriages | |||||||||||||||||
| Generation | The difference between line breeding and inbreeding is in the result! | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Robert/Mary Tribble | Hiram/Hanna Tribble | Enoch O'Brien | Nancy O'Brien | married T. Shaw | Thomas/Lucinda O'Brien | George/Sarah O'Brien | ||||||||||
| 2 | Nancy | married GW O'Brien | Elizabeth | married S. P O'Brien | G.W. | married N. Tribble | (Elizabeth's aunt by marriage) | Minerva | married John E. | John T. | |||||||
| 2 | Elizabeth | married Theolopolis Shaw | Widow of Samuel | Stephen P. | married E. Tribble | ||||||||||||
| 2 | John E. | married M. O'Brien | Widow of Samuel | ||||||||||||||
| Above are families intermarrying without inbreeding; below was line breeding | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | John/Minerva Tribble | John/Minerva Tribble | John T/Mary O'Brien | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Harriet V | married E. O'Brien | Harriet V. | married E. O'Brien | Elmer G. | married H. Tribble | |||||||||||
Also, note that Myrtle C. Hussong married Gus Grimes O'Brien in 1902. Myrtle was the daughter of Sarah E. O'Brien, daughter of George Washington O'Brien and Gus was George Washington O'Brien's third wife's son by a previous marriage.