Thursday, June 1, 2017
Family history is so much more than names, dates and places on a chart. This blog will endeavor to share stories along with pictures of people and places. As an avid family researcher I am interested in not only my family but people that lived in their community. Researching our family also leads me into the happenings during a particular time period. While researching my book A Just and Holy Cause? I learned a great deal about the Civil War and life during that time period. My blog photo is a picture of my great grandparents and their children (including my grandfather). They came of age during one of the most difficult times in our history, the Great Depression. My grandfather worked so hard to support a large family, but struggled financially his whole life. But, his story is a testament to survival even in the harshest of times. I want my grandchildren and many nieces and nephews to think of view history not only in terms of dates and places, but of the people that experienced the wars, economic conditions, good and bad times.
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Henry Smith Rev War Patriot
Service Voucher for Henry Smith Henry Smith, my fourth great grandfather, (birthplace and family unknown), was born September 1752. He marri...
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On the morning of November 3, 1916, splashed across the front page of the Columbus Enquirer was the headline: “Muscogee County Stirred by ... -
Rev. James Rees 1801-1890 James Rees is buried in Pearce Chapel Cemetery, Harris County GA. His date of death should be 1890. ... -
He sat rocking on the back porch of the white frame house he had built in 1947 watching his grandchildren play in the dirt. Ev...