My grandparents, Daniel and Florrie MARTIN, were tenant farmers. They farmed on several farms after they left South Carolina, mostly…
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Herbert B. Thomas: a nice man
My grandmother’s brother, Herbert Batie THOMAS, was born 11 March 1889 in South Carolina. Early life Herbert’s parents, Dan THOMAS…
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My Christmas cactus heirloom
When my grandparents, Joel Daniel MARTIN and Florrie THOMAS MARTIN, left South Carolina for Virginia in the mid 1920’s, they…
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The lantern in the cemetery
The month’s Genealogy Blog Party is all about the strange…the question being ‘What is the strangest thing you’ve found in…
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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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Florrie Thomas Martin – tenant farmer’s wife
The month’s Genealogy Blog Party topic is Which of your ancestors deserves to sit on the Iron Throne? My grandma,…
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