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The Faulkners and Their Neighbors on Featherbed Branch Pt Deaux
 Featherbed Branch drains from a hill in southern Anson County. It flows paralell, in a manner of speaking as a stream can, to the Chesterfield Road on its west and Jarman Road on its right. It crosses...
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Flipping Over the Box of Legos
I have the sweetest, most amazing Three year old grandson in the world. Honestly, I do. There's no terrible threes here, I call him my 'Terrific Three'. But when he gets to playing....Every parent and...
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The Wonder Years
Deeds, deeds and more deeds. I call the years between 1810 and 1840 ' The Wonder Years' because they make me wonder. Where was my John Faulkner? Who was he living with before he shows up as head of his...
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A Tale of Two Jobs: Job Falkner, The Rolling Stone
 Georgia County Courthouse, historicIn a letter dated April 4, 1837, .Asa William Luther Falkner, Sr., wrote to his Uncle, Job Falkner, of Liberty Hill, Georgia, introducing himself as the son of his...
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A Tale of Two Jobs: Part Two - Job's Children
 Job Falkner was born around the time of the American Revolution in Anson County, North Carolina. He married Mary Frances Gulledge, daughter of William H. and Bathsheba Watts Gulledge, as a young man....
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The Secret of Samuel Burdette
 They did things differently in the old days, that doesn't mean they did not have to deal with similar issues, problems, and emotions. It just meant they had different traditions and less options than...
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A Tale of Two Jobs: Little Job of Tennessee
When I meet someone whose sole interest is in going straight up the trunk of their family tree, endlessly searching for those documents that no longer exist, or perhaps never did, I just shake my head....
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The Brief Life of Eugene Head
 Stock photoWhen learning of the lives of distant relatives along the bloodline, I'm struck by how often and tragically certain individuals lost children, hence the need, then, for larger families to...
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Vibing With the Land
Anson County reeks history. You can drink it in the air, hear it on the wind, and feel it in the dirt beneath your feet. Every county in North Carolina has history, but some, like Mecklenburg, have...
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Elizabeth Robbins' Demons
 Having just spent a very long time and a great deal of research on a post, only to lose the whole thing following the very last sentence, I just had to step away. Step away from the subject, the road...
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The Sins of Solomon Robbins
Who knows why a man does what he does? How can we judge the actions of another by looking only at records on paper? We can not. We can not know someone's mind, or all of the details of a situation,...
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The Origins of Isham Robbins: One Theory
Isham Robbins was a man of whom I know very little. He is first seen in the 1841 tax listing of the newly minted Stanly County, North Carolina. Isham Robbins was taxed for .40 cents for 100 acres of...
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Where was Boston's Branch?
Location! Location! Location!The mantra for real estate agents worldwide has implications in genealogy circles,too.I recall when I was in the D.A.R., an individual attempting to prove her lineage...
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Charles Robbins
While aiming my magnifying glass in the direction of John Robbins, Sr and Jr., I just can't forget about Charles .The above family tree for Charles Robbins is taken from someone else's Tree off of...
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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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Charles Robbins
At different times in our countries history the expansion of pioneer families into the wilderness came at a trickle. At other times it seems as if they turned the water on high. In the area of the...
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What's In A Name? Who was the original Green Deberry?
Green Deberry Stegall 1860-1936 monbeck3In the 18th and 19th centuries, parents didn't always name their children after ancestors and relatives. I've noticed that often they were named for Presidents,...
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Green Deberry Robbins
 A map of Hardin and McNairy Counties in Tennesee and Tishomingo and Alcorn in Mississippi.Green Deberry Robbins was born about 1800 in Montgomery County, North Carolina, the son of Charles Robbins...
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The Forgotten
Recently, I was out of town, and passed by Prospect Presbyterian Church on my way back home. Prospect is a very old church congregation, within a modern building, and located in Rowan County, right on...
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The Death of Lee Roy Dancy
Lee Roy Dancy was important in my research for three reasons. Well, he was probably important for many more things than that, I'm sure, but I never knew the man. The reasons are: One, the  date he was...
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