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My Newest Passion: Mountain Hunting
While researching in old land records, where sometimes you can find genealogical treasure, I often come across the names of unknown landmarks. Knowing the names of local waterways and archaic areas or...
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In Search of Ugly Creek Mountain
Going through old Montgomery County deeds before 1841, it helps to know what citizens lived on what side of the Pee Dee and the location of creeks and other landmarks to determine if the deed applied...
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Wolf Mountain
Wolf Mountain is one of the small mountains now considered inside of the City of Albemarle, or close to it. I found mention of it in several deeds and from it's earlies descriptions, was never...
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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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Rufus Alexander Lambert
The above rustic-looking gentleman is Rufus Alexander Lambert, my Third Great-Grandfather. He was born November 17,1847 and died July 24, 1921, living his entire life in Stanly County, North Carolina....
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Jenny and Delilah
While researching the family of my Second Great-Grandfather, I discovered that his oldest child, daughter Jeanette "Jenny" C. Lambert had an untold tale to tell. None of her descendants had figured it...
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What happened to Jezebel Whitley?
While looking for the death certificate of one of my Lambert ancestors, which I did not find, I came across an unusual death certificate for a young woman named Jessie Bell Whitley. She had not one,...
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Losses and Gains
As the years pass, every family tree has its gains and losses. Recently, our family tree has experienced both.As I sit here this morning mourning the loss of my aunt, Shirley Eudy Davis, many...
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Lowder Mountain
Lowder MountainI first met Lowder Mountain when viewing the below picture from the Stanly County History Center, presented by Lewis Bramlett, who issues a daily Facebook post for the Center. I grew up...
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Finding Fred: And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
A few years ago, I acquired a substantial group of disks from the State Archives, that contain old court records from Stanly and Anson Counties. One day soon, I intend to transcribe the entire things,...
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Using DNA to Fill Out Your Tree
This is not a "How to" post. I am not that good at it. No expert here. Just a bit of good luck and providence added to years of stop and start.This is just a quick monologue of another project I've...
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My Theory on the Origins of Mary Anna Burris
Mary Anna Burris was my third Great Grandmother. That fact is not disputable. Other facts that are not disputable are that she was born in Stanly County, North Carolina around 1833 and died in the same...
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Straight from Durango
God only knows we Americans were an adventurous and westward -moving bunch. We all have it in us. And at the same time, we all have the 'settling gene', from those more home-bodied individuals, who...
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Mike and Lucy. The Ramsey Saga Continues
Lucinda Ramsey was one of the 5 daughters of Holden Ramsey. She left as scant records, nearly, as her father. She married Michael Honeycutt, son of Samuel and Nancy Helms Honeycutt, who also left very...
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Stark Ramsey
The one thing about genealogy, don't keep beating your head against a rock. Step back, take a breath and go on to pursue new avenues, as there as always many more. Believe me, as a tree's roots bend...
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John Ramsey (The First)
I came across John Ramsey, originally, in the land grand of Starkey Ramsey, my Fifth Great Grandfather, and one of my brick walls. Their land was side by side. This fact, leads me to believe, leads me...
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The Other Ramseys: Richard and Samuel
John Ramsey only showed up in the 1790 census of Anson County. He recieved a Grant on Lane's Creek in 1774 and between those two dates, he was mentioned in several land transactions.He did not show up...
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Bad Girls of Stanly County: The Disorderly House of Sarah Eudy.
I've been purviewing my CD collection of old Stanly County Court records again. One day, one day, I'm going to transcribe the ones of these suckers, that have not been transcribed already, and make...
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Bad Girls of Stanly County Part III: The Bigamist
Sarah Swaringen was not as active a participant in her journey to the Stanly County jail as the subjects in my first two "Bad Girls" series. She didn't run a brothel and party house, and she didn't...
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