This month’s Genealogy Blog Party is a pool party where we get to toss a difficult ancestor into the pool….
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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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Rufus Terry: textile worker & restaurant operator
Amuel Rufus TERRY, Sr. was born in South Carolina on 7 Aug 1895, probably in Richland County. His parents were…
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Hollie Grant: A wife and then a widow
Hollie GRANT was the one of seven children born to John GRANT (1851-before 1900) and Laura GAINEY GRANT 1850-1925). John…
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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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