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 […]
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This Week in the Family History: November 1–7
130 Years Ago: Stephen Hopkins applied for a marriage bond on 1 November 1890 in Harlan County, Kentucky, showing his intent to marry Barbary Saylor. The marriage certificate section of the form is blank, so the date of the ceremony is unknown, but it apparently happened. Five months later, on 13 April 1891, S. W. […]
This Week in the Family History: October 11–17
This Week in the Family History: July 12–18
Feature: Nancy Jane Bennett 168 Years Ago: Nancy Jane Bennett was born on 17 July 1852 in Georgia. Her youngest son, James Doffin Lanier, gave that date when he provided the personal information for Nancy Jane’s death certificate in 1926.1Georgia Department of Public Health, death certificate 24347 (1926), Mrs. Nancy Jane Lanier; digital image, Georgia […]
This Week in the Family History: March 15–21
Feature: John T. Bennett 110 Years Ago: If you believe the date on his headstone, John T. Bennett died 15 March 1910.1 I don’t believe it, but I don’t know when John died. He lived in Morgan County and likely died there.2 He was buried in Welcome Baptist Church Cemetery in neighboring Cullman County, Alabama.3 […]
This Week in the Family History: February 9–15
Feature: William Washington Lanier 128 Years Ago: William Washington Lanier probably died 11 February 1892 in Fredonia, Chambers County, Alabama. That is the date on his headstone in New Hope Baptist Cemetery at Fredonia.1 An entry in a family Bible originally owned by William’s grandson, William Larkin Lanier, states he died on 28 January 1892.2 […]
This Week in the Family History: February 2–8
Feature: John T. Bennett 189 Years Ago: John T. Bennett was born 7 February 1831 in Edgefield District, South Carolina.1 John was the son of Lewis H. Bennett and Teresa.2 The Bennetts settled in Troup County, Georgia before 1840, probably around 1834.3 Many researchers think Lewis was the Lewis Bennett listed in the 1830 census […]
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 […]
Maiden Aunt: Mattie Bennett
Martha and Mary Bennett were twins. Martha was called Mattie and Mary was called Mollie. Mattie never married and didn’t leave many records. I don’t know much about her life except for where she lived at the time of each census from 1870 to 1940. The twins were born 15 February 1863 in Georgia, probably […]
This Week in the Family History: July 24–30
July 24 ► 17 Years Ago: John William “Bill” Krueger died in 1999 in Trimble County, Kentcky. (Taylor line) July 25 ► 156 Years Ago: James W. “Jim” Hankins was born in 1860 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. (Hankins line) July 27 ► 98 Years Ago: Lois Marie McCauley was born in 1918 in Muhlenberg County, […]
