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
Hankins
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 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. […]
This Week in the Family History: November 15–21
202 Years Ago: Charlotte T. Jackson’s birth date on her headstone is 15 November 1818. Her birth date recorded in her grandson William Larkin Lanier’s Bible is 3 November 1818. I don’t know which date, if either, is correct. I’ve recorded both in my information about Charlotte, but I use the headstone date as the […]
Photo: Hopkins County Baptist Ministers
Thomas Leander Hankins was a General Baptist minister. He served as minister for the 1st General Baptist Church and Frederick’s Chapel Church in Tildon in Webster County and Concord Church, Union Temple General Baptist Church, and Earlington General Baptist Church in Hopkins County. The Hopkins County General Baptist Minister’s organization apparently gathered regularly for a […]
This Week in the Family History: October 25–31
83 Years Ago: Susan Taylor Krueger married Harvey Owens on 31 October 1937 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was a second marriage for both. Susie had married August Krueger in 1911, and they had four children before he died in 1927. Harvey married Lula Debord in 1906, and they had five children before she died […]
This Week in the Family History: October 18–24
165 Years Ago: Albert Hankins married Isabella Jane Goodloe on 24 October 1855 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. P. S. Loving, a Baptist minister, performed the ceremony at the home of the bride’s father, John E. Goodloe. Their marriage lasted less than fifteen years, possibly less than ten. Albert died sometime between 1863 and 1870. Exactly […]