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The Children of Zilphia Cochran: William Marshall Cochran
 I have just finished writing a story on a lady named Zilphia Cochran, whom I was able to trace from her birth into slavery on the homeplace of Mr Abraham B. Cochran and his wife Mary Marshall Lilly...
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Facts and Fairy Tales: The Real Story of Lynn Bird
 Big Lick, Stanly County, North Carolina is a very small place with a very interesting name. It's name is derived from the salt licks in the area that drew deer, and then became crucial for farmers...
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Falling Branches: Dad
It's taken me a month and a half to begin to write this one. It was one I certainly was not ready to write. Melvin Eugene Lambert was my father. He passed away in late February and we buried him on...
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The Children of Zilphia Cochran: Harriett and Dilsie
 I've spent the month of February, Black History month, exploring how my young African-American neighbor is related to me, and I came upon the conclusion that our connection lie between two men, Ben...
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The Children of Zilphia Cochran: Steve and Calvin
 I had intended to study all six of the children of Zilphia Cochran in one post, however, that post became too long. Some of her children had large and long-lived families. Others were not so...
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The Children of Zilphia Cochran: Martha Jane
Common Yellowthroats are warblers with a distinctive rolling, throaty song.Common YellowthroatThey stay low to the ground, preferring to take cover in thick brush and quiet fields, foraging for insects...
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Step Back and Breathe
I haven't blogged in quite awhile. Forgive me while I forgive myself. Sometimes life takes over and sometimes one just becomes burned out and no longer inspired. Both have been my case this summer. I...
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Blame The Cherokee
 It happens over and over. When someone finds out that I'm 'pretty good at doing genealogy', I get this often repeated request, "We know our Great Grandma was a Cherokee Princess, my grandma told me,...
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PIM
 Isom Pemberton Morton, Son of George C. MortonI've found that all are in agreement that Ezekial Morton and his wife, Betsy (Elizabeth Brumbelow Morton), had at a minimum a dozen children. Some family...
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Wanted: The Narrowsville Mortons
I'm looking for information on this man, not just this man, but on his family. Not necessarily on the family he created with his two wives, but on the family he sprung from.His name was Samuel Parsons...
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The Deed
When I was looking into the children of Ezekiel Morton and wife Betsy Brumbalow Morton of Almond Township, Stanly County, North Carolina, I fell into the trap that many other people did while trying to...
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For The Love of George
On Setember 12, 1872, Elizabeth Mcswain Morton of Henry County, Tennessee petitioned the U. S. Government for a Widow's Pension, due to her from the benefit of her husband George's service in the War...
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Smithfield
When I began blogging, several years ago now, I was not only chronicling my research journey, but also, my literal, physical journey. As my net was cast wider, it spread out to other states both north...
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Sammy's Siblings
After the discovery of George Crogin Morton in my Thru-lines on ancestry.com, and the relationship of many of his descendants to myself, I began a journey to discover who he was. He was showing as a...
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& Yet Another George
George D (possibly David) Morton shows up in the 1860 census of Anson County. Name:George MortonAge:39Birth Year:abt 1821Gender:MaleBirth Place:North CarolinaHome in 1860:Wadesboro, Anson, North...
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Who Were the Griggs Boys?
 On October 27, 1846, 33 year old Vashita Calloway Morton left her earthly body to pursue a life in heaven.Two years later, on November 19, 1848, her widower, Rev. Samuel Parsons Morton married Lucy...
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So, Who was Lucy Ingram
 From the Fayetteville Observer, November 28, 1848Tuesday, November 28, 1848, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)-Married: In Stanly county on the 7th, Benjamin MAULDEN to Miss Elizabeth COLEY,...
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The Setting of the Son : The Will of Job Calloway
 As all things begin, so then must they end. On March 10, 1837, Job Calloway, of the Western part of Montgomery County, North Carolina, knew his days were numbered. He was weak of body, and ill of...
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Finding Aunt Rhody
 Something about Rhoda Porter piqued my interest the moment I saw that she lived right next to Isham Ingram in the 1840 census of Cedar Hill, Anson County, North Carolina. I had already been into the...
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Stray Mortons
Traveler Sculpture by Bruno Catalano While trying to piece together a family like the Mortons of Stanly and Montgomery Counties, I try to look at every individual person as a part of the whole. Without...
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