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Who Rev. John Lambert Wasn't.
Semi-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, North Carolina)23 Dec 1857, Wed  • Page 4 One of the falacies I've had to get past in the search of who my ancestor John Lambert, a Primitive Baptist minister, really...
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West of the Sunrise
Oftentimes, old records can't be taken at face value. Possibilities and probabilities are just that. The Drury Allen Family Cemetery is ancient to say the least. Located northeast of the relic of the...
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Pinkney and Martha
 An unusual DNA match has led to a roundabout and twisted branches search.Attached to the family tree of this nontypical match was the following document, the April 1st, 1875 marriage certificate from...
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No Tears for Annis
 Woman with Her Hand over her Mouth by Edgar DegasAnnis was a popular name among the Ramsey family of Burnsville Township, Anson County, North Carolina, that also spread into the surrounding counties...
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Old Aunt Polly
 In February of 1890, kindly storekeeper, Lindsey F. Austin of the Burnsville Community took in old "Aunt Polly" Ramsey. Was he a relative? Furthermore, who exactly was Aunt Polly?Having been peeking...
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Needham Lambert
 American Battlefield TrustThere existed, in the (fuzzy) years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a man named Needham Lambert. The name Needham, in itself, was not a cognomen of fate in...
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Two Little Girls
Victorian Era photo of two sistersAbner Boggan and his family had some interesting ties to that of my 3rd Great Grandparents, John and Susan Webster Faulkner. First of all, they were neighbors,...
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Benjamin and Martha
Elijah Covington was a wealthy man by anyone's standards in Antebellum Anson County, North Carolina. When he died intestate on September, 20, 1859, he was 65 years old and had outlived his first wife...
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Rollie and Vollie; Twins in the Family
I ended my last post with a mystery still dangling like meat off of a broken bone. I can't do that. Ellis D. Gaddy and wife Martha Caudle Gaddy were the parents of four children, two sons and a set of...
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Sherod
 During my investigation of the family of Elijah C. Townsend of Anson County, North Carolina, who migrated south and west after the Civil War, leaving his daughter, Henrietta Rose Townsend, with her...
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The Ancestors of Champ Bristol Burgin
The Ancestors of Champ Bristol BurginChamp was described in his WWI draft card as tall, stout, blonde, blue-eyed and slightly balding in 1917. His father was a troubled man, and may have had a drastic...
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William Solomon III and Harty Bridges
 In the woods on Marty Road, just east of the town of Fayetteville, in Lincoln County, Tennesee, lies an old abandoned cemetery, not unlike so many more scattered across the southeast, remnants of a...
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From Whence Came Calvin Lee?
Tombstone of Calvin LeeI will begin this post with the answer to the question that the title of it asks: I don't not know. So, why write a response, or a post at all? The answer to that is, I have a...
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The Drifter
 The generation who came along on the coattails of the Civil War, born into or after the ashes had fallen and mass changes had come about, into a society where people were learning to do things...
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The Widows of Wharf
Phillip Lynch appears only in one United States census, the very first, 1790, but he appears in that one twice, in Montgomery and in Anson. That must have been the year he crossed the river, that...
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