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 08 – Courting
I have picked Courting in the law in this blog, not in romance? Even if you prefer romance, this can lead to a court of law. I love these topics because they make me look at sources that I wouldn’t typically use. In researching in court cases, I found an Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 07 – Landed
My daughter and I landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1976. My husband had accepted a job with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and arrived in January of that year. We had arrived in time to celebrate the Bicentennial Anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Pennsylvania sponsored the Bicentennial Continue Reading
2022 – 52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 06 – Map
I generated this map on ArcGIS. It is an OpenStreetMap (OSM) collaboration project of volunteers and is available to ArcGIS users and developers. The datapoints A-F are the locations in Cleveland, Ohio, where my Paternal Grandmother and her siblings were living during the 1930’s – (A) Daisy[1], (B) Mattie[2] (5804), Continue Reading
2022 – 52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 05 – Branching Out
The NFL Super Bowl LVI will be coming up in a couple of days. It will be the Cincinnati Bengals vs. the Los Angeles Rams. One of my favorite players was Marshall Faulk, who played for the St. Louis Rams and Indianapolis Colts. He was a seven-time Pro Bowl and Continue Reading
2022 – 52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 04 – Curious
I know I would have a problem with this one. I am not the curious type. I am more like whatever comes my way than the direction I would go. I guess I wouldn’t say I like the pressure. Recently, I received a DNA match back to my 2nd great-grandmother Continue Reading
2022 – 52 ANCESTORS CHALLENGE – WEEK 03 – Favorite Photo
My favorite photo is a picture of the Miller Family, taken about 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio. The lady in the white blouse is my paternal grandmother, Anna Miller (1908-1946). Unfortunately, I never met her because she died the week before I was born. The chart above lists the family members 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
2022 – 52 ANCESTORS CHALLENGE – WEEK 01 – FOUNDATIONS
For me, the bedrock of our family was my maternal grandmother, Cozelle Sloss Taylor. She raised me as an infant. Her burial was on the day of my eighteenth birthday. She only had one job away from the house, and that was during the ’40s to support the war effort. 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