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Bad Girls of Stanly County Part 2: The Shameless Jade
The sensibilities and mores of 1880's Stanly County were nearly in a different dimension than they are today, in 2018. It would take more than 100 years for certain practices, that do not turn an eye...
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A Trip to Chatham
I recently made a trip to Chatham County, North Carolina to do research, along with one of my distant cousins that I've met through genealogy. We met in Pittsboro, an historic little town with a...
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Carr's Mountain
One of my current research projects is to locate the unknown "Mountains" listed in old deeds and papers of Stanly County. I, and every other person in Stanly County, have been living among these old...
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Ewell
While others are doing most of the detective work on the Marks family line, ever occassionally I will jump back into the groove too. Sometimes, I will come across something, get a burr in my shoe, and...
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Working Backwards: The Adams search Begins
My newest undertaking (as if I needed another one) takes me into uncharted territory. Instead of attempting to research a known ancestor, I'm going to be taking a possible ancestor, and attempting to...
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The Forgotten Doctor
Most people with a standard understanding of Stanly County history believe the much promoted Dr. Francis Kron was the sole physcian in the early days of Stanly County. A few more have heard of Dr....
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The Forgotten Doctor: Part II The Next Generation One
Part One of my story of Dr. Charles Meritz Gurst, who came to North Carolina from Bavaria, Germany and settled in Stanly County, ended with the beginning of a chronical of his descendants.Briefly, Dr....
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Revelations in DNA: The Lambert/ Pace Discovery
2018 has proved to be a year chocked full of amazing, shocking, confusing and mysteriously wonderful genealogical and dna-related discoveries.I took the DNA test through Ancestry. com back in 2013. A...
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Who was Reverend John Lambert of Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church?
This will be one of many posts on my ancestor, Rev. John Lambert, born circa 1772, who died in Stanly County, North Carolina, as my research is continuing and information on him is vague and hard to...
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Early Land Records of the Stanly County Lamberts
What tales do the land records tell?To some people, the old 19th century script and tree-killing legalese of old land records are hard to read and not relevant to their families' story. I find this...
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Who Rev. John Lambert Wasn't.
Semi-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, North Carolina)23 Dec 1857, Wed  • Page 4One of the falacies I've had to get past in the search of who my ancestor John Lambert, a Primitive Baptist minister, really was,...
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The Children of Rev. John Lambert: The Firstborn - Rebecca
We don't have many records of Rebecca Lambert Almond, but what we do have is telling.Records of female ancestors in the male-dominated 19th century are few and fleeting. They did not begin appearing in...
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McCamie Willis Cemetery
In the midst of a barren winter field, some distance from the main road, in the crossroads community of Red Cross, Stanly County, sits a lonely grove of trees. Hidden among vines and branches, saplings...
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A Closer Look at John Almond
I've questioned whether or not John Almond was the son of Rebecca Lambert Almond. He was without doubt, the son of her husband Pleasant Almond.John was one of the two favored sons of Pleasant Almond...
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The Short Life of Benjamin Coley-Murray
Like their father, Edmund Murray or Coley, the children of Edmund (sometimes seen as Edward), were the "children of two names", much like their father was "The Man With Two Names". In records and...
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Holy Ground
More than once, while looking for something totally different, I find a piece of genealogical treasure, quite wonderfully, and very accidentally. Today was one of those days.My Rocky RiverI've been...
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One Page in 1880
When it comes to the Tyson Community in southern Stanly County, North Carolina, I never fail to be amazed at what a tale just one page of a 19th century census can tell.So many of my ancestors,...
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The Lee Tragedy
John Lee lived along the Rocky River. I have came across his name many, many times in my research of various other families who lived along the Rocky River, most especially my Davis ancestors. Peter...
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John Hooks
John Hooks was my 3rd Great Grandfather, yet I know so little about him.He appears in the 1850 and 1860 censuses as a young man with a young and growing family. The family of his wife, Martha Carpenter...
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The Greats
In honor of Mother's Day, I've decided to take a quick look at the little I know about my Great Grandmothers.Family structures can change due to numerous situations, some people grow up with many...
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