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Providence
A perplexus is a spherical puzzle. The object is to twist, spin and flip the ball through a labyinth  until the puzzle is solved. There is an ancient Chinese version wherein turning the wooden pieces...
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Marriage Near Georgeville
The Concord Times(Concord, North Carolina)07 Jun 1894, Thu  • Page 3What a pleasant surprise, while trying to find information on the death of his father, Frederick Starnes 1805- after 1880, I found...
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Finding Euxena, I mean Erexena.
While researching the families of the siblings of my Fourth Great-Grandmother, Sarah Winfield Howell Davis, I often discovered they led interesting lives and traveled greatly. But sometimes, they...
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Joycie and Wiley
Most recently, I've been transcribing records from old CD's of Stanly County, North Carolina Superior Court from the 1870's. It's quite an interesting decade, an entirely different  setting than the...
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A Trip to Virginia
The Early Patents of Brunswick, Mecklenburg and Lunenburg County before her, tell the story of the interelation, entanglement and bonds of  my ancestors as neighbors and relations who intermarried,...
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The Will of Randolph Davis
Randolph Davis was one of the sons of Henry Davis and Mary Marriott. I've always thought of him as an ancestral Uncle, and not a direct ancestor, because the name Randolph, or Randall as he is...
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Maw Maw, where is Paw? "He ran off to Arkansas".
"Maw, Maw! Where Is Paw?""He ran off to Arkansas."The above rhyme is one I have heard from the old folks of Stanly County, and has survived even to this day.In my research of the old court record of...
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It's 1870. Where is the Family of Henry Davis
This is a subject that has me perplexed. I know Henry Davis passed away sometime between 1862 and 1865. His brother, Edward Winfield Davis had him declared insane and took over his affairs far before...
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The Burris Reunion
Every October, at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, in Frog Pond, North Carolina, is held a reunion of the descendants of Solomon Burris, a Revolutionary War soldier. This was my second time to be able...
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My Daddy's People - Rowena
I inherited my love of history and genealogy from both sides of my family, but being raised with my mother's family, and living with my maternal grandparents for awhile during my formative years, I...
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David and Ellen
David and Ellen Burris with two of their grandchildrenDavid T. and Ellen Honeycutt Burris were my paternal Grandfather's maternal Grandparents. David was a very common name among the Burris families...
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Black Sheep Sunday : "Making Bricks Without Straw"
Ephraim Tillman Burris was the younger brother of my Great Grandmother Rowena Burris Lambert. While they seem to have grown up in a peaceful farming community and then later on the Concord Mill Hill in...
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The Tragedy of County Poor Homes & The Tales of Six Residents
Sarah Freeman, Columbus Whitley, Miranda Starnes, Hannah Bullard, Sarah Chapel, Jane StarnesWhat did these Six individuals have in common? They were residents of a County Poor House in the year...
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The Foretelling: The Bad Murray Blood.
I've mentioned often the Murray bad temperament that seemed to weave in and out among generations. How a kind and Christian father in this family gene pool could have a temperamental, and unscrupulous,...
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The Haunted Post
This is a post about a post. A disappearing post. A possibly haunted post.For literally weeks, I had been working on a post about Julius Caesar Murray, the oldest son of John Monroe Murray. It included...
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The Death of Young Love
June 10, 1910Mumford Parker Love was the son of John Askew Love and Margaret Tyson Palmer Love. He was born in Stanly County and the family resided in Furr Township in the western part of Stanly County...
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The Tale of Thomas Tucker
Sometimes, while researching one character, I become interested in that of another whose story I cross along the way. Thomas Pinkney Tucker was one of those characters.The Messenger and...
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The Barber's Sin
In the present tumultous politcal and social atmosphere, the treatment of women in the workplace and in general is being held under a microscope and centuries of sexual oppression and pressure are...
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A Searching we will go....
Hi!I've just returned from another trip to Virginia. As always, the libraries and Courthouses close too soon.This time, I spent most of my time in Brunswick County, in Lawrenceville. Just entering...
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The Lost Melton
While looking for one thing, sometimes I discover another, or answer to a long-held question I've had. This just happened while I was looking at a member of the Fry family, Elizabeth, that I discovered...
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