About Joe About Will About John About David About Photo Location: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Date: 17 May 1942 after Verda Hankins McCauley’s funeral Credit: Courtesy Jeanette Gilliam McCauley
Photo: Lee Hankins, Young Man
About Lee About Photo Location: Taken in Hopkins County, Kentucky by Lee’s brother-in-law Henry T. Clements Date: Probably late 1870s Credit: Courtesy of Rick Thorpe
Photo: Emma Jane Owens Taylor
About Emma Jane: About Photo: Location: Susie Taylor Krueger’s yard on West Main Street in Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky (Susie was Emma Jane’s step-daughter.) Date: Early 1930s Credit: Courtesy of W. H. Taylor
2021: Happy New Year
This year, maybe more than ever, we all look forward to a new year. It will soon be a year since I had a meal in a restaurant with friends, had family or friends inside my house, or even left the house for anything other than necessities. But I’m well, and so is my mother […]
This Week in the Family History: December 27–31
Feature John D. Lanier (*2nd Great-uncle, McCauley) 180 Years Ago: John D. Lanier was born on 29 December 1840 in Randolph County, Alabama, to William Washington Lanier and Charlotte T. Jackson. The family hasn’t been located in the 1850 census. By 1860, John was not listed with his parents and siblings. He was certainly old […]
This Week in the Family History: December 20–26
This Week in the Family History: December 13–19
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This Week in the Family History: December 6–12
Feature Joseph Smith Lanier and Nancy Jane Bennett (*Great-grandparents, McCauley) 152 Years Ago: Joseph Smith Lanier and Nancy Jane Bennett married on 10 December 1868 in Heard County, Georgia. Heard County’s courthouse burned in 1893, and marriage records prior to 1886 do not survive. The only place I’ve found the date and location of their […]
This Week in the Family History: November 29–December 5
109 Years Ago: Elmer Dennis Hopkins joined the U.S. Army on 4 December 1911 at Middlesboro in Bell County, Kentucky. He served in Troop E of the 15th Cavalry. Elmer took part in the internment of the Mexican Federal Army at Fort Bliss, Texas, after their evacuation of Ojinaga, Mexico, in January 1914. Elmer was […]
This Week in the Family History: November 22–28
Hattie Eugenia Lanier married twice, both times on 27 November. 122 years ago, she married Virgil Slokum White on that date (1898) in Monroe County, Mississippi. Hattie and Sloke divorced sometime between 1910 and 1916. 104 years ago, she married William McRae on that date (1916) in Fulton County, Georgia. Hattie and William also divorced. […]