This is the house where James Milton and Mary Thomas Echols lived in Forsyth County, Georgia. Mary was the sister of my 2nd great-grandmother Margaret Thomas Petty. Margaret died 28 July 1876 in Hopkins County, Kentucky.1 After her death, six of Margaret and John R. Petty’s nine children went to live with Mary and her family.2 […]
Archives for January 2020
This Week in the Family History: January 26–February 1
Feature: David Gamble 206 Years Ago: David Gamble was drafted into Nash’s Regiment of the South Carolina Volunteer Milita 1 February 1814 while living in Laurens District. He served as a sergeant in Captain Nathaniel T. Martin’s Infantry Company until 10 August 1814.1 David lived in Heard County, Georgia when he applied for bounty […]
Photo: Lillie Vashti Lanier Dixon
I wish I had known my grandfather’s youngest sister. Researching Aunt Lillie has been interesting and somewhat frustrating. I don’t yet have all the main pieces to her story, but I’ve determined that she married five times (at least). I haven’t located records for all of those marriages or even the first name of one […]
This Week in the Family History: January 19–25
Feature: David Hankins McCauley 76 Years Ago: David joined the U.S. Navy 20 January 1944, six months before his 18th birthday. He spent eight weeks in training at Great Lakes, Illinois before being assigned to the Armed Guard Center (AGC) in New Orleans, Louisiana.1 U.S Navy Armed Guard Centers were the wartime duty stations for […]
Photo: Pa and Granny
John Cook Taylor and Emma Jane Owens were my great-grandparents. Pa and Granny were married 120 years ago today at her parents’ home in the Freedom community in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.1 They had been married fifty-three years when Pa died 7 September 1953.2 This picture was probably made within a year or two of Pa’s […]
This Week in the Family History: January 12–18
Feature: Job Weeks 179 Years Ago: Job Weeks died 15 January 1841 in Pope County, Illinois.1 Job was born 8 May 1755 in Gloucester County, New Jersey, and served in the Revolutionary War from there.2 Job moved to Salem County, New Jersey years after the war and then on to Ohio County, Virginia, where […]
Photo: A Blurry Picture is Better Than No Picture
So few pictures of my father and his siblings as children exist that even a blurry one is a treasure. This one was taken in front of their house on what is now Kennedy Brasher Road in Greenville, Kentucky. Standing are Kathryn, Jimmie, and David McCauley and sitting on the ground on the left is […]
This Week in the Family History: January 5–11
Feature: Marie Krueger 65 Years Ago: Marie Krueger and Henry Cox were in a serious two-car accident 9 January 1954 near Calloway in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Henry was driving north on U.S. 25 when the driver of the other car got into his lane. Henry swerved to miss the other car, but he couldn’t get […]
Photo: A Family Gathering in a Park
This is one of my favorite pictures of my grandfather, John William McCauley because I can see his face and he looks happy. In most pictures, he looks a bit stern, and he is often wearing a hat that obscures part of his face. Also pictured are his daughter Jimmie Nell McCauley Knight (left) and […]