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Flowering Branches
When I first began this blog, I had 4 children and one grandson to whom I wanted to leave a legacy, a map and trail of who they were and those who had come before us.Since then, I have acquired a new...
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The family of Susannah Briggs
In recent posts, I have been exploring the family of William Palmer, the Nailer, who arrived at Plymouth Colony on the second ship, The Julian, which arrived there after The Mayflower. By his last...
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Sallie's Legacy: The Family of Sarah Francis Davis Crump
In writing about Henry Davis's daughter, Laura Davis, I came to find out that his oldest daughter, Sarah, named undoubtedly for her grandmother, Sarah Winfield Howell Davis, may have fared no better,...
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The Troubled Life of William Pines Crump and wife Margaret Victoria Davis.
Margaret Victoria Davis was the youngest daughter of Henry Davis, Job's oldest son, and his second wife, Martha Palmer. She was born on April 5, 1852 amidst the times of her father's greatest troubles....
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Sunday Black Sheep: Shipman Jones and Eliza Carrol
Shipman Jones is an enigma. He appears in just a few records and even his "possible" decsendants are a mystery.The appearance of Shipman Jones begins with the death of a more well-known gentleman in...
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Finding Catherine Howell
It began with a Deed. Book One Page 321, in a deed transfer between Richard Howell and Richmond Blalock, in Stanly County, North Carolina.This particular Richard Howell was the son of Jordan Howell Sr....
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More Links in the Howell Chain: The Hough Connection
Again, from curiosity, I have been following a trail of breadcrumbs, and they may very well lead to a Candy House.Taking what I do know and adding it to what I find, I hope to find more. In attempting...
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The Hough Connection Part II: The family of James and Sarah Moore Howell
Discovering the James and Sarah Moore Howell family began with this one old Newspaper article.From The Wadesboro Argus, 1906 (several issues. ran for months)This one clipping allowed me to put together...
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The Obituary of James Edward Howell
J. E. Howell was the youngest son of Peter Howell and wife Elizabeth Floyd Howell. James Edward (or sometimes seen as Edmond), was the one who stayed, who did not move west, who bought up the portions...
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The Mystery of young Henry Davis
This record is a clipping from a ledger compiled in 1921 of Soldiers from Stanly County, N C who fought in the Civil War. The entire record is located at digitalnc.com, and titled "Soldiers from Stanly...
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Thomas, the Lost Watkins and wife Tabitha Howell
Finding Tabitha Howell meant finding the last of Jordan and Martha Randall (Randle) Howell's children.She had married a Thomas Watkins, who was shown with her in a couple of Stanly County land records...
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The Heirs of John W. Howell
John W. Howell was the youngest of the three sons of Richard Howell and Sarah Winfield Howell of the Rocky River area of the Anson/Stanly County border in North Carolina. He and his brother Jordan,...
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Lowder Reunion
The Lowder Family is one of those two dozen or so Stanly County clans that it hard NOT to find in your family tree if you have Stanly County roots.The Albemarle Press (Albemarle, North Carolina)6 Sep...
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And the Family Tree Continues to Grow
In the past two months, our family tree has increased by two, and my number of grandchildren has grown, from two to four.It only serves to remind me that our family is not only our roots, but also the...
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Howell Naming Patterns
Recently, I've been exploring the James Howell and Sarah Moore Howell of Montgomery County, North Carolina. It is my belief that they are related to the Richard and Jordan Howell descendants of...
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The Death of Lem Howell and Disappearnace of his family.
Lemuel M. Howell was the son of John Randle Howell and Elizabeth "Betsy" Nash Howell. He was born about 1830 and appears in two census records.In 1850, he appears as a young man in his early 20's still...
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Davis vs Davis, Whitaker, Shank and McIntyre
I finally threw enough dates, pages and sessions concerning the various suites involving the children of Benjamin Franklin Davis and Julia Ann Sibley Davis at the State Archives to find a record.The...
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I found Sadie!
Over the past several months, I've been concentrating my research efforts on the family of Benjamin Franklin Davis and wife Julia Ann Sibley Davis.The Albemarle Press(Albemarle, North Carolina)4 Jan...
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Who married Elizabeth Cagle Manuel?
In researching the Murray family of Stanly County, I have found it very useful to research the families they had connections to, either by living with them, near them or interacting with them in other...
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John
St. John's Lutheran Church is a very modern looking structure nestled among the rolling hills of  Cabarrus County, North Carolina's northwest side, near Mount Pleasant, a small town near the...
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