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This Week in the Family History: November 5-11, 2023

This Week in the Family History: November 5–11, 2023

November 5, 2023

Nancy Jane Gamble was about 67 years old when she died on 8 November 1891 in Greenwood, Sebastian County, Arkansas. She was born about 1824 in South Carolina to David Gamble and Anna Finney.

Photo - John Taylor at his Buckeye Home

Photo: John Taylor at his Buckeye Home

November 2, 2023

John Taylor at his Buckeye home in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.

This Week in the Family History: October 29-November 4, 2023

This Week in the Family History: October 29–November 4, 2023

October 29, 2023

John Hankins and Sarah Gill married on 30 October 1783 in Frederick County, Virginia, and settled in Hopkins County, Kentucky, by 1810.

Photo: Forrest, Garah, & Dick Hankins

Photo: Forrest, Garah, and Dick Hankins

October 26, 2023

Dick Hankins with his children, Forrest and Garah.

This Week in the Family History: October 22-28, 2023

This Week in the Family History: October 22–28, 2023

October 22, 2023

Sarah Bell Lanier Cooksey died on 27 October 1920, just days before her 30th birthday, in New York City.

McCauley Siblings at Closing of Pleasant Hill Methodist Church

Photo: Closing Pleasant Hill Methodist Church

October 19, 2023

McCauley siblings at the closing of Pleasant Hill Methodist Church in Greenville, Kentucky, 1998. They grew up attending Pleasant Hill and Vashti was still a member at the time it closed.

This Week in the Family History: October 15-21, 2023

This Week in the Family History: October 15–21, 2023

October 15, 2023

Sarah Ann Lanier married Andrew Jackson Proctor on 15 October 1871 in Troup County, Georgia. She was the seventh of William Washington Lanier and Charlotte T. Jackson’s eleven children.

Photo: Lum and Grant Hopkins

Photo: Lum and Grant Hopkins

October 12, 2023

Brothers Lum and Grant Hopkins, in Ohio.

This Week in the Family History: October 8-14, 2023

This Week in the Family History: October 8–14, 2023

October 8, 2023

Thomas Hankins was born on October 1880 in Tennessee, grew up in Hopkins County, Kentucky, and lived most of his life in the Philippines.

Photo: Elizabeth Josephine Mulliner

Photo: Elizabeth Josephine Mulliner

October 5, 2023

Elizabeth Josephine Mulliner, wife of great-uncle Hartford Conn Taylor; photo taken before they married in November 1928.

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