October 30 ► 233 Years Ago: John Hankins and Sarah Gill were married in 1783 in Frederick County, Virginia. (Hankins line) October 31 ► 72 Years Ago: Hettie Eugenia Lanier White McRae died in 1944 in Salem, Lee County, Alabama. (McCauley line) November 3 ► 127 Years Ago: Aggie Lee Hankins was born in 1889 […]
Archives for October 2016
#TBT: Granny and Her Niece, Ollie
Throwback Thursday Emma Jane Owens Taylor (right) with her niece, Ollie Owens Bradley
This Week in the Family History: October 23–29
October 23 ► 96 Years Ago: Sarah Belle “Sallie” Lanier Cooksey died in 1920 in New York City. (McCauley line) October 24 ► 116 Years Ago: Emma Ewers Taylor was born in 1900 in Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. (Taylor line) ► 161 Years Ago: Isabella Jane Goodloe and Albert Elvie Hankins were married […]
#TBT: Hopkins Brothers and Sister
Throwback Thursday Lige, Lum, Lula, Henry, Elmer, Berry, & Grant Hopkins (Oldest brother John is not in the photo.)
This Week in the Family History: October 16–22
October 16 ► 134 Years Ago: Albert Elvie Hankins was born in 1882 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. (Hankins line) October 17 ► 53 Years Ago: Hartford Conn Taylor died in 1963 in Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois. (Taylor line) ► 118 Years Ago: William Perry Hankins was born in 1898 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. (Hankins line) October […]
#TBT: A Visit from the Hankins Uncles
Throwback Thursday Front: Kathryn McCauley Tomes, Jimmie McCauley Knight, Vashti McCauley Wells, Elizabeth McCauley Carver, Gladys McCauley Dukes, and Vernon McCauley Lucas; Back: David McCauley, Dick Hankins, Will McCauley, and Jimmy Hankins
Aunt Edna
Edna Ewers Hopkins Chesnut August 28, 1921–October 11, 2016
This Week in the Family History: October 9–15
October 11 ► Elmer Dennis Hopkins and Emma Ewers Taylor were married in 1920 in Jellico, Campbell County, Tennessee. (Hopkins & Taylor lines) ► James Francis Taylor and Margaret E. Ramsey were married in 1855 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. (Taylor line) October 12 ► Nancy Jane Bennett Lanier died in 1926 in Atlanta, Fulton County, […]
#TBT: Pond Creek School, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, 1934
Throwback Thursday When Uncle Joe taught at Pond Creek School in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, many of his students were family—siblings, nephews, and a niece. In this picture from 1934: 1st row: Harold Dukes (5th from left), Junior Lucas (6th from left), Melvin Dukes (9th from left), Marvin Dukes (10th from left); 2nd row: Jimmie Nell McCauley […]
This Week in the Family History: October 2–8
October 3 ► 104 Years Ago: Thomas Richard “Dick” Hankins married Edith Rhea Jackson in 1912 in Davidson County, Tennessee. (Hankins line) October 5 ► 123 Years Ago: Rhoda Nell Taylor died in 1893 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. (Taylor line) ► 180 Years Ago: John Emerson “Jack” Goodloe and Eliza Ann Dobyns were married in […]
