Joseph Smith Lanier and Nancy Jane Bennett’s fifth child, a daughter, first appears in the 1880 U.S. census as Hetta V. Lanier, age two years old.11880 U.S. census, Randolph Co., AL, population schedule, Rock Mills, enumeration district (ED) 114, p. 11, dwelling 72, family 82, Joseph Lanier; digital image, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6742 : accessed 21 Nov 2009); […]
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks
Branching Out: The Kruegers
All of my identified immigrant ancestors arrived in what is now the U.S. before the Revolutionary War. A few holes exist in my family tree where a post-Revolutionary War immigrant might fit. But so far I haven’t found one and the possibilities seem slim in most cases. The Krueger family is the closest I have […]
Curious: Why Was Emma’s Middle Name Ewers?
Oh, sure. Now I’m curious. Too bad I wasn’t curious when my maternal grandmother was alive. You can add “Why was your middle name Ewers?” to the long list of questions I failed to ask her and wish I had. I did ask my Aunt Edna, who also carried that middle name, what she knew […]
Favorite Find: Elvie in Newspapers
Last year, while writing the stories of my paternal grandmother’s family, I discovered that newspapers held the story of her brother Albert Elvie Hankins. When I got started with genealogy nearly twenty years ago, I asked four of my aunts what they knew about Uncle Elvie. It wasn’t much, and it wasn’t all that accurate. […]
