Very little is known about Rhoda Ann Lavender. At least, I know very little about her. As I skim through my tree looking for ancestors to feature in this 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge from No Story Too Small, I’m finding I say that about too many ancestors. And this is just week #3. […]
Archives for January 2014
52 Ancestors: #2 Samantha Angeline Petty
On the day Samantha Angeline Petty married Thomas Leander Hankins in Hopkins County, Kentucky, J. E. Day was appointed as her guardian. My best guess is that she needed someone to give consent for her to marry at 18 years old (although there is no record of such consent in the Hopkins County records). The […]
52 Ancestors: #1 Emma Ewers Taylor Hopkins
My maternal grandmother has been the topic of numerous posts here. She’s really responsible for my interest in genealogy even though that interest didn’t develop until more than twenty years after she died. For that reason, it feels right that she’s the topic of the first post in this series. Emma became the postmaster at […]