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This Week in the Family History: December 27–31

December 26, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

December 20, 2020

This Week in the Family History: December 6–12

December 6, 2020

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 22–28

This Week in the Family History: November 22–28

November 22, 2020

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. […]

Photo-Orie Columbus Hopkins

Photo: Orie Columbus Hopkins

November 14, 2020

Orie Columbus Hopkins, called Lum, was the son of James Arton Hopkins and Lucinda Howard. They named him for his uncle (Jim’s brother), William Columbus Hopkins, who also went by Lum. Several people have added this picture to William Columbus in their online trees, but this is the younger Lum.

This Week in the Family History: November 8-14

This Week in the Family History: November 8–14

November 11, 2020

This Week in the Family History: October 24–31

This Week in the Family History: October 25–31

October 25, 2020

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: Oct 18-24

This Week in the Family History: October 18–24

October 18, 2020

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 […]

Photo: Howard "Doc" Hopkins

Photo: Howard “Doc” Hopkins

October 15, 2020

Howard “Doc” Hopkins was a musician and recording artist in the 1930s and 40s performing on the WLS (Chicago) National Barn Dance and WJJD (Chicago) Suppertime Frolic. He recorded for American Record Corporation and Decca.  Doc was the son of James Arton Hopkins & Lucinda Howard. He was my great-uncle.

This Week in the Family History: October 11–17

This Week in the Family History: October 11–17

October 11, 2020

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