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Shades of Gray-Edmund Denson
In this post, I just want to take a closer look at the individual named Edmund Denson. Who was Edmund and where did he come from? At first, that was all that I knew.I came across Ed Denson during my...
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The Devil and Franie Jane
Portions of the story of Franie Jane Deaton Brewer Denson have me agasp. I really don't know what to do with them besides present them.18th Century Occult Drawing I asked myself, was I really reading...
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The Ballad of Maggie McQueen
The aftermath of the Civil War in Piedmont North Carolina had left a surplus of widows and orphans and a few dispassionate men. Some men had arrived home with pieces missing, both physically and...
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All in the family: The Story of William Deaton and Nancy McQueen
1867 was a very busy year for the McQueen and Deaton families of Northeastern Montgomery County, North Carolina. I had been exploring Bastardy Bonds of the era, looking for one in particular and found...
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The Daughters of Mary Deaton
Mary Deaton, aka Polly, was born along the Little River in Northeastern Montgomery County, North Carolina on February 20, 1828. Polly was the daughter of William Deaton and his first wife, Nancy Allen...
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Chicken of The Woods
Chicken of the Woods is a mushroom that grows naturally in the Piedmont and Mountain regions of North Carolina. It is an edible mushroom who got its name from the chiche, "taste like chicken. This...
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A Brief Synopsis of the Family of Malcolm McQueen
A photo of the Lacy Thompson house, last house in the defunct town of Lawrenceville, Montgomery County, NCÂ The family of Malcolm McQueen was scattered like dust in the wind. His wife, Nancy had...
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A Tale of Two Alexanders
Alexander the GreatThe Scottish immigrants into the Sandhills of Montogomery, Moore, Richmond and Scotland Counties in North Carolina were very fond of the name "Alexander". I am not certain if this...
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The Sins of Sandy McQueen
McQueen Family CrestThose who research their family trees need to remember first and foremost, that their ancestors were only human, wretched, fallible, ignoble, indulgent, loving, generous, loyal,...
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Bone Fragments: The Lost Children of Alexander McQueen
In archaeology, is is not always possible to identify bone fragments. The fragments of a leg bone, a jaw with teeth, portions of a broken skull, what can these pieces, without the rest of the skeleton,...
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Ginger Cake: The Fighting Abe McQueen
Name:Abe McQueen • Event Type:DeathEvent Date:1 Nov 1931 • Event Place:Dalkeith, Gulf, Florida, United States Event Place (Original):Dalkeith, Gulf, FloridaResidence Place:Wewahitchka •...
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Jerry
Jerry McQueen had more than dna in common with his Scottish-born father, Alexander "Marcus" McQueen, a love of the land and an eye for the ladies.Jerry McQueen was born November 12, 1848 in Montgomery...
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The Flight of the Hummingbird Moth
Early this spring, we added a couple of tiny flowers to our garden, simply out of curiosity. They grew into bushes of a substantial size, and to the delight of our grandchildren, have certainly lived...
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The Missing Ward: John of Vigo County
 Son Ward - That is how he is listed in numerous family trees for Thomas Ward of Ward's Creek in Montgomery County, North Carolina. Family researchers could tell by the dashes in early census...
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Sweet Charity
 Sometimes, when coming upon a document, and searching for the people who are mentioned in the document, I discover things that descendants of these people have all wrong. So, sometimes I create a blog...
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Slow and Sluggish
 As 2020 comes to a slow and sluggish end, so has my research reached a slow and sluggish turn. I just recently recieved a packet from the state archives that I had ordered so many months ago, I had...
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The Apple Cart: The Few Things I know about James Murray.
I just suffered the loss of a very lengthy post that I had been working on for weeks. What happened, I don't know, the hitting of the wrong key combination, a computer malfunction, who knows. I will...
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Palmer Mountain
There's an old saying about too many irons in the fire. I'm guilty of that, but I haven't abandoned one of my research projects, The Mountains of Stanly County. Everyone near and in Stanly County,...
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An American Travesty
 One of the best parts of genealogy and dna genealogy is meeting new cousins. Sometimes you discover that you are related to someone you already knew, but not as a relative. That is the basis of this...
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The Ballad of Zilphia Cochran
Zilphia, also spelled Zelphia, is one of those old melodic names seldom heard any more. It was rare in it's time, akin to Sophia in nature and the woman who bore it had to stand out among the Mary,...
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