The things you can learn from old newspapers! From The Mt. Vernon Signal Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky 24 Aug 1917 “About 4:30, Friday afternoon, a very bad accident occured on Dixie Highway. Misses Lena, Gracie and Emma Taylor were on their way home from the funeral of Mrs. Hariett Burdette, when Claude Griffin’s car […]
Archives for August 2012
Turns Out Aunt Lillie Didn’t Marry Jack Young
Yes, I’m writing about my grandfather’s sister, Lillie Vashti Lanier, again. Frankly, I’m fascinated by her for many reasons and her apparent five marriages aren’t even at the top of that list. But this is not just another post about Lillie; it is also about how making assumptions without all of the available facts can send you […]
Maybe Aunt Lillie Enjoyed Weddings
She was married five times. At least. A couple of weeks ago, I said my grandfather’s sister, Lillie Vashti Lanier, was married at least four times and that I hadn’t found her in 1920 or 1930 census records. When I threw that “at least” in there it wasn’t so much because I believed she’d been married […]
