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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Oliver Terry: railroad painter
Oliver Mack TERRY was one of 12 children born to John D. TERRY (1874-?) and Mariah MARTIN TERRY (about 1873-1950)….
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