There are multiple meanings for a “Broken Branch” family member. I am claiming it as “life cut short.” “Broken Branch” means a child could have lived a day or up to 16 years of age. Due to the loss of records for births under 10, I don’t have many children identified. Continue Reading
Barbee
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 24 – Popular Name
I decided to use my 2021 Week 10’s theme “Name’s the Same” for the Week 24’s “Popular Name” theme. The name selected is “Robert Barbee,” my 2nd great-grandfather, who married Martha Ella Quinn, 1877 in Madison County, Alabama. Robert Barbee (1834-1928) had a son, Samuel, by his first wife, Amanda Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 22 – Conflict
My maternal grandfather always claimed that his father’s surname was Lanier. He even gave his children the middle name Lanier. Ever since I started Genealogy, I have been researching James Lanier, first husband of my great grandmother Rosa Barbee. In May 1901, his mother, Rosa, married James Lanier in Morgan Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 17 – DOCUMENT
“Document” can be a noun or a verb and, as genealogists, we should be using it as both! Perhaps this week you share a neat document you’ve found or write about your efforts to document an ancestor.One of my favorite sources is the pension file. I have a copy of Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 09 – Females
Maggie Lena Barbee was the first known family member to go to college. She was born on 13 Mar 1891 in Alabama to Robert and Martha Ella Quinn Barbee. Both of her parents were enslaved people. My 2nd great grandfather, Robert, had previously been married to Amanda Lawler (1852-1876) and Continue Reading
2022 – 52 ANCESTORS CHALLENGE – WEEK 02 – Favorite Find
For years I had looked for the death record for my great-great-grandmother Martha Ella Barbee. Ella was born about 1854 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and married Robert Barbee on May 24, 1877, at Huntsville, Alabama. Ella came into the marriage with two children: George ( 1874) and Joe (1875). She Continue Reading
2021 – 52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 42 – Sports
I am bad at all “Sports,” and always the last one picked for a team. I remember visiting my sister and her family at Fort Bragg, and we decided to play baseball with our spouses and children. I was the last one chosen. It hurts. I guess they wanted to Continue Reading
2021 – 52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 39 – Steps
Martha Ella Quinn was my 2nd great-grandmother who married Robert Barbee. I have little information on her life. His first wife was Amanda Lawler. Amanda’s father, Samuel Lawler, a resident of Averyville, near Stevenson, Alabama, appeared on 26 February 1870, before Judge Lewis Douglas in Madison County, Alabama, to testify Continue Reading