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Roots and Branches
As I continue to reach further back into the roots of my family tree, in attempts to discover those who came before me and whose DNA exists in me, another phenomena is taking place. My family tree...
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By George
CLIPPED FROMThe Messenger and IntelligencerWadesboro, North Carolina10 Jan 1901, Thu  •  Page 3For the past several weeks now, I've been cataloguing all of the Anson County Hildreths, attempting to...
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The Mystery of Berry Grove
The title of this post sounds like a place where folks had settled and named it for a patch of will berries. This isn't the case. Berry Grove was a person. Berry Grove Hildreth. So it was more than...
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Struck By Lightning
NoSarah Jane Hildreth, daughter of Berry Grove and Colon C. Teal Hildreth, has a story of her own, while brief and simple, she was one the growing number of women I keep coming across, most...
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Momma Said
My mother talked a lot. She talked to me a lot. I realized this when I pass by certain houses and I know who lived there when my mother was a child. I know who she went to prom with, that she grew up...
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Dreams, Schemes and Calumny Things
 Having been relatively silent on my blog recently, I just wanted to throw something out there, not only to avoid having an empty month, but to help myself toorganize my mind. Rest assured, that just...
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Seventy Dollars and a Horse
A wide variety of professions are found among the branches of my family tree, with farming being the most common, which I believe speaks for most searchers of ancestors past. Second place in my case I...
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An Island Named Albemarle
Ancestry DNA has a new feature wherein they have the ability to separate your DNA matches into groups, by which of your two parents the individual is related to you through, Identified as Parent One...
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Fannie
Sarah Frances Falkner Turner was one of my sixteen Second Great Grandparents. I've been stuck, Stuck, STUCK on her father, John Falkner, for years. I believe I've discovered every record there was on...
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The Black Widow
Ella Elizabeth Faulkner was the sister of my Second Great Grandmother, therefore, she was my Aunt of some degree of greatness. She and Great Great Grandma Sarah Frances were the youngest two children...
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The Ordinary Lives of Barbara and Ellen
 John L. Falkner of Anson County had 15 children , 7 of which were daughters. He was my 3rd Great Grandfather, and one of my brickwall ancestors. In order to find out more about him, and possibly his...
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Adventures in DNA: Chapter 12: The Faulkners
 First and foremost, I begin this post by stating that my blogging was never meant to be a resource for anyone for anything. I'm not Wikipedia here. I'm just a curious person on lifelong trek to...
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Searching For Sarah
When I begin a trek into the branches of a particular family in my tree, IÂ immerse myself into the whole pool of them, and swim around until I'm completely drenched by everything I can find out about...
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Forkners, Bohannons, Jarmans, Widsoms and Chiles, oh my!
Allow me to begin this post with a land grant. As the olde scripte is difficult to read, let me transcribe the names and location parts, leaving out the chains and pines and blackjacks.Book 110 pages...
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The Letter
 When attempting to climb that family tree trunk, there's speculation, and then there's evidence.This is evidence. I recently came across the existence of two letters from the 1830's that had been...
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The Will of Benjamin Faulkner
Benjamin Faulkner hadn't arrived in Anson County long before he thought it wise to order the writing of his will and wise it was.He dated the Will October the 15th 1783.Benjamin Falkner does not appear...
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The Faulkners of Featherbed Branch
When digging through ancient, weathered deeds, one will come across many names, some who still color the hills on mailboxes and businesses, others who only graced the landscape with their presence for...
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Three Two or One?
 My brain is still not wrapping itself around this whole Elisha, Elijah and Asa Faulkner thing.Elisha, Elijah and Asa, where there 3 or 2 or 1?To begin with, ELISHA 'Forkner' was issued a Grant of 500...
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Aunt Ella' s Divorces
 I recently posted about my Second Great Grandmother's younger sister, Ella Elizabeth Faulkner (1871 - 1935), in a post called "The Black Widow". You can read about it Here:The Black WidowAunt Ella was...
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The Falkners and Neighbors of Featherbed Branch: The 1800's
 For the past several months now, I've been trying to make head and tails of the land records involving the early Falkners who lived along Jones Creek, Featherbed Branch and Wilkey's Mill Creek, in...
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