Transcription of my grandmother’s notebook. See Part 1 in the series for a full explanation. Growing Up in Rockcastle County “When my brother started to school, I led him by the hand and stayed with him at recess afraid he would get hurt. When I was 10 yrs old we moved back up near […]
Archives for April 2016
This Week in the Family History: April 24–30
April 25 ► Gladys McCauley Dukes died in 1978 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. [McCauley line] April 26 ► John R. Petty married Mary C. Bohannan in 1878 in Whitfield County, Georgia. [Hankins line] April 27 ► Cecilia “Celia” Owens was born in 1839 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. [Taylor line] April 28 ► Wesley Alfred […]
Emma: In Her Own Words — The Background & The Beginning
The Background Emma Ewers Taylor Hopkins was my maternal grandmother. If you’ve read my About page, you know that she was responsible for my interest in genealogy, even though that didn’t happen until more than 20 years after she died. Sometime in the 1970s, my mother bought a fill-in-the-blanks family history books for my […]
This Week in the Family History: April 17–23
April 17 ► 117 years ago: John Emerson “Jack” Goodloe died in 1899 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. [Hankins line] April 20 ► 147 years ago: Joseph Bunyan Petty was born in 1869 in Kentucky (either Logan or Hopkins County). [Hankins line] April 22 ► 80 years ago: George David Lanier died in 1936 in Bell […]
This Week in the Family History: April 10–16
April 10 ► 79 years ago: Joseph Bunyan Petty died in 1937 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. [Hankins line] ► 73 years ago: John William McCauley married Pearl Fitzhugh Joins in 1943 in Drakesboro, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. [McCauley line] April 11 ► 111 years ago: Hartford Conn Taylor was born in Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, […]
This Week in the Family History: April 3–9
April 3 ► 156 years ago: Henry Milton Petty was born in 1860 in Tennessee. [Hankins line] ► 155 years ago: Samantha Angeline Petty was born in 1861 in Whitfield County, Georgia. [Hankins line] ► 15 years ago: Lily Vashti McCauley Wells died in 2001 in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. [McCauley line] April 4 ► […]