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The Case of Crissy Keith - Reconstruction Epidemic Pt 3
 Union County, Illinois Meeting of the Baptists and DunkardsOn May the 9th, 1854 in the courts of Stanly County, North Carolina, Jennings Crowell, Esquire, reported to court with $5.00 he had recieved...
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The Pauls
 By Stefan DuncanFamily trees grow, as one researches, deeper and deeper into the roots. It's easy to forget, that at the same time one is digging deeper, life goes on in the branches above, especially...
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A Son Was Born
 For weeks now, I've been searching for the origins, and the consumation, of the life of one Benjamin Paul, who is an ancestor of a new member of our family tree. He was born either in Chesterfield...
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Three Brothers married Three Sisters
 When researching 18th and 19th century families, situations that would seem very odd to us today pop up, and sometimes replicate themselves to point we begin to understand that they were not an...
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The Ford Brothers
 The concept of a parallel universe has inspired many a Sci-Fi movie or TV show. I am currently binge-watching "Fringe", which incorporates this idea in its premise. This does not suggest I believe...
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The Eighth Ford: Tristram
 Sir TristramTristram was a Knight of Arthurian legend. The name Tristram also had a brief career as a trendy name in mid-ninteenth century Richmond and Southern Anson Counties, North Carolina. So how...
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The Sisters Who Married Shepherds
 Shepherding is a profession nearly as old as humanity itself. It's not hard to imagine someone with the surname of Shepherd having descended from an ancestor of this profession. Many surnames,...
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For the Love of Florence
They say the Grassy Islands area of the Pee Dee River have always been full of danger and mystique. They say the murky waters hold secrets as old as the river itself and paranormal music has lured...
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The Woman With Many Names
There must have been a lazy or inept census taker in old Richmond County, North Carolina. I can imagine him sauntering lackadaisically down an old dusty path and seeing a bent oak up ahead that looked...
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Goodnight Irene
 While researching my last post, The Woman With Many Names , I came across a gentleman who had been born in Richmond County, North Carolina, but lived most of his adult life in the city of Montgomery,...
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The Man in the Mist
The old man trudged determinedly by the creek, his head bent downward, studying the path, his pace rapid and purposeful. A walking stick kept pace in his right hand, but his gait was steady and...
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Henry's Genes
Henry and Martha Palmer Davis Some of my ancestors intrigue me more than others. Possibly because the more I find out about them, the more I wonder about the actions they took and why. Sometimes it's...
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Murder in The Family
For the last several posts I have been focusing on the family of my Great Granduncle to some degree, George Washington Solomon. First, there was that of his daughter, Florence, who had seemed to have...
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Shame
 HazlittSex, Shame, Guilt, Happiness, Art and God | HazlittIn the early, bombastic era of the 1920's, a man named John Archie Holmes abandoned his wife and 5 children and set upon a new life and...
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The Scent of a Black Dragon Cedar
 The Black Dragon Cedar is an evergreen Cryptomeria native to Japan. It's mature foliage is a deep black-green and it grows in an irregular pyramid shape, reaching 10 feet at maturity. They have a high...
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So Who Was John Faulkner?
 A recent group of genetic matches renewed my interest in my third Great Grandfather, John Falkner of Anson County. I really knew little of John Falkner, except for his existence between the 1840 and...
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The Will of Abner Boggan
Anyone who delves into the early records of Anson County, NC will undoubtedly come across the surname of Boggan. If they do not, they're not in Anson County.The Boggans were early arrivals to this land...
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The Fate of Wearing Two Hats: James Coleman Webster Falkner
 The marriage database of Anson County, North Carolina, clearly explains to us who James Coleman Webster/Falkner was. ANSON COUNTY MARRIAGE LICENSESOCTOBER 10, 1868 to MARCH 14, 1873Oldest Marriage...
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Holly Tomlinson
Holly Tomlinson sounds like the name of an insurance broker who was born in 1985, hits the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays, holds a seat on the PTA, drives a Honda Accord, collects antique pie plates and...
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Falling In Between the Cracks
 Having recently completed a post on my Great Great Uncle, James Coleman Webster - Faulkner, I discovered that his wife Mary Virginia Hildreth, was just as much a mystery as he was. Well, at least her...
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