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Pull Apart Bread
 Have you ever tasted any pull-apart bread? If you haven't, you're missing out. It's a cheezy, garlicy, festive indulgence into carbohydrate heaven. I've included the recipe from The Pioneer Woman, in...
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Bennett Solomon Jr.
William McGregor grant showing borders with Bennett and Goodwin SolomonBennett Solomon Jr. was born in Montgomery County, North Carolina about 1797. In the old land records of Montgomery County, North...
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The Road is Long : The Descendants of Rev. Jordan Solomon of Lincoln County,...
 In the later years of the psychodelic 1960's and the early years of the turbulent 1970's, lived a generation of children too young to be hippies and too old to be what folks now call Gen Xers, the...
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The Little I Know About Goodwin
When it came to the sons of William Solomon II and wife Deanna Gordon Solomon, the one I know most about was Bennett, who was my direct ancestor.That makes sense, of course, but to make sense of the...
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Henry
Henry Solomon could be the son or grandson of Goodwin Solomon. I can't say, and there may never be proof of either. Simply through the process of elimination, however, he has to be one or the other....
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Ya Gotta have Faitha
 In 1987, George Michael released his song, "Faith", which would turn into one of the biggest hits for the former Wham! singer, who died tragically young at 53. The chorus of the song begins with,...
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Fountain Piece
Odd names intrique me. In the sea of John and James and Mary's, it's a tickle and a comfort to see a Zephinah Cucumber or a Northwinn Polycarp. Why couldn't Tennesee Berrymaster or Euphrasia Coppledick...
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The Final Leaf
 It was with a heavy heart that we recently laid to rest my Uncle, Leon Dickson Lambert. He was the last of my father's siblings and the last of that branch of the family tree.There were three...
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A Simple Kind of Man
From The Movie "A Simple Man".I'm at that point in research again, where I'm waiting on possible records from the State Archives to hopefully bring answers, but the Archives seem to be very busy and...
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Short Stories: Finding Fanny
Stock photo of Young Girl from Vintage photos of Civil War EraAt the moment, I have been indulging myself in the reading of old Superior Court records from Stanly County, North Carolina that were just...
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Young Love
 Daily Concord Standard19 Jul 1894, Thu · Page 1It was not an uncommon occurance, especially in the waning days of the 19th century and the coming days of the early 20th. Education was more accessible...
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Cheaper By the Dozen
 The last family in my family tree I have been researching for months has been that of the Solomons. Three Solomon brothers, Bennett, Goodwin and William, migrated from Franklin County, NC to what is...
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Who Rev. John Lambert Wasn't.
Semi-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, North Carolina)23 Dec 1857, Wed  • Page 4 One of the falacies I've had to get past in the search of who my ancestor John Lambert, a Primitive Baptist minister, really...
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West of the Sunrise
Oftentimes, old records can't be taken at face value. Possibilities and probabilities are just that. The Drury Allen Family Cemetery is ancient to say the least. Located northeast of the relic of the...
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Pinkney and Martha
 An unusual DNA match has led to a roundabout and twisted branches search.Attached to the family tree of this nontypical match was the following document, the April 1st, 1875 marriage certificate from...
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No Tears for Annis
 Woman with Her Hand over her Mouth by Edgar DegasAnnis was a popular name among the Ramsey family of Burnsville Township, Anson County, North Carolina, that also spread into the surrounding counties...
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Old Aunt Polly
 In February of 1890, kindly storekeeper, Lindsey F. Austin of the Burnsville Community took in old "Aunt Polly" Ramsey. Was he a relative? Furthermore, who exactly was Aunt Polly?Having been peeking...
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Needham Lambert
 American Battlefield TrustThere existed, in the (fuzzy) years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a man named Needham Lambert. The name Needham, in itself, was not a cognomen of fate in...
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Two Little Girls
Victorian Era photo of two sistersAbner Boggan and his family had some interesting ties to that of my 3rd Great Grandparents, John and Susan Webster Faulkner. First of all, they were neighbors,...
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Benjamin and Martha
Elijah Covington was a wealthy man by anyone's standards in Antebellum Anson County, North Carolina. When he died intestate on September, 20, 1859, he was 65 years old and had outlived his first wife...
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Rollie and Vollie; Twins in the Family
I ended my last post with a mystery still dangling like meat off of a broken bone. I can't do that. Ellis D. Gaddy and wife Martha Caudle Gaddy were the parents of four children, two sons and a set of...
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Sherod
 During my investigation of the family of Elijah C. Townsend of Anson County, North Carolina, who migrated south and west after the Civil War, leaving his daughter, Henrietta Rose Townsend, with her...
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From Whence Came Calvin Lee?
Tombstone of Calvin LeeI will begin this post with the answer to the question that the title of it asks: I don't not know. So, why write a response, or a post at all? The answer to that is, I have a...
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The Drifter
 The generation who came along on the coattails of the Civil War, born into or after the ashes had fallen and mass changes had come about, into a society where people were learning to do things...
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The Widows of Wharf
Phillip Lynch appears only in one United States census, the very first, 1790, but he appears in that one twice, in Montgomery and in Anson. That must have been the year he crossed the river, that...
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