This week’s prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is: Earliest. I decided to look at the earliest newspaper clippings…
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The work of some of my ancestors: turpentine farming
The prompt for 52 Ancestors this week is Work. Most my ancestors were farmers, stone masons, railroad laborers, and preachers….
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Ella Grant: the last tragedy & the first
For the last four weeks I’ve written about the tragic young deaths of the Gardner family – Benny in 1920,…
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Baxter Gardner: struck by lightning
Baxter Tillman GARDNER was the son of Bennie GARDNER (1888-1920) and Jessie PATRICK GARDNER BYRD (1892-1967). Baxter was the middle…
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Walter Peavy: gone in middle age
Doubly related to me Walter L. PEAVY is my first cousin twice removed, and he is related to me through my…
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52 Ancestors Week 34 – B.H. Hatcher, Officer Down
Burdine H. HATCHER, known as B.H., was the son of Rev. Simeon J. HATCHER (1828-1894) and Mary Jane GRANT HATCHER…
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