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Turzy
 When Nathaniel Simpson of Stanly County, North Carolina died in 1848, it set off a tragic series of events that would have a devasting effect on his family for generations.I had researched the...
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Bad Girls of Stanly County: Laura Jane Simpson
Laura Simpson was a Stanly County character who deserves multiple posts and examination. She was not your typical farm girl.When it came to my category of research that I dubbed "The Bad Girls of...
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Sunday Black Sheep: The 'Nefarious' Laura Jane Simpson OR Kudzu Part I
When it comes to researching the Simpson family of the boiling, bubbling brew that was early Tyson Township in Southern Stanly County, North Carolina, one does not encounter a family tree, but instead,...
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Blind Tigers: The Simpsons Part II
The Urban Dictionary defines "Blind Tiger" as 'a place that sells intoxicants illegally'. The term was first used in 1857.In this post I will examind the children of Laura Jane Simpson, the notorious...
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The Loss of Phillip Lambert
 Early Autumn on the Western border of Stanly County would mean the spicy scent of rotten cotton bolls and ripe soy beans in the air, a tinge of color on the edge of the maple and dogwood trees, with...
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Bad Boy Bud & Blockade Bob
 Odum Asbury Simpson was the fancy name of a man known much more commonly as "Bud". Bud, sometimes seen as Bud Simpson, and other times as Bud Crider or Krider, was the son of Laura Simpson of Stanly...
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The Death of a Sugar Maple
Today is Thanksgiving, traditionally, a day to join with loved ones and others close to you, enjoy the comaraderie,and give thanks for ones blessings, while eating too much good food. It's a national...
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Did Rebecca Cheat?
One of the mysteries that has plagued my curiosity since I began my genealogical research with a passion had to do with my Third Great Granduncle, Edward Winfield Davis. Neddy, as he was affectionately...
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Jenny: The Brief Life of Janette Simpson Burns.
 In Turn-of-the-Century Stanly County, North Carolina, people like Jenny Simpson did not exist, not in the family trees of the local movers and shakers, or in the Christmas stories told around a...
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Pency
 I like to know who people are. Take for instance, this 11 year old girl, whose name is transcribed as "Pency", living in the home of Reddick Drew of Anson County, NC in 1870.Name:Redick Dress[Redick...
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Where Henry Lies
There's a small river that begins as a tiny stream in the southern part of Iredell County, North Carolina. It winds it's way down though Cabarrus County, where it grows with the additional waters of...
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Three Acres
 After all of my research on Laura Simpson and Bob Krider, I wondered exactly where the three acres were, that the newspapers had reported was owned by Krider, but was occupied by Laura and her illicit...
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Daisy's Tragic Death.
 Sometimes, the early death certificates of the 20th Century told the saddest of stories. One of those was that of the death of Daisy Simpson Aldridge, the wife of "Uncle Filmore", my Great...
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Yerby
 In the old Job Davis cemetery near Cottonville in southern Stanly County, North Carolina, is an interesting, if not mostly destroyed tombstone. It states:' Dennis Davis   February 15, 1888 said to...
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The Christmas Present
Confession, I was not able to celebrate Christmas this year, or New Year's, or any other holiday past Thanksgiving. About a month ago, I came down with a horrible case of Covid 19, that passed on to...
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The Affair of Dennis and Jane
 In the February, 1849 Session of Court of Pleas and Quarters of Stanly County, two people were brought in front of the judge on the charges of Fornication and Adultery. These two were Jane Williams...
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A Quick Look at Lindsey
 Some peoples lives brushed across the face of time like a loose lash, just waiting to fall. Thus was the brief life of Lindsey Frank Yow. Most people accept records at face value and never really,...
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The Reconstruction Epidemic: Preface
 When a hobby becomes work, the passion disappears. I've had to lay the Mortons down, happy to have identified the siblings of Rev. Samuel Parsons Morton, because it became too overwhelming. I became...
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A Brief Interuption Please!
For about three years, (I can't believe it's been that long), I've been pursuing the ancestors of my 3rd Great Grandfather, George Washington Turner (1835-1895),of Anson County, NC. Early on in my...
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Gold and Relicts
 Relict: (noun) 1. a thing which has survived from an earlier period or in a primitive form.2. a widow.When I think of the word relict or it's kin, relic, I think of something old and useless, a...
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