Feature: Emma E Lanier 131 Years Ago: Emma E. Lanier married Thomas Samuel Childers on 4 July 1889 in Chambers County, Alabama. Sixteen years later, T. S. filed for divorce on 20 July 1905 in Coweta County, Georgia, on the grounds of cruelty.1Chambers County, Alabama, Marriage Book 8: 512, T. S. Childers and E. E. […]
Hopkins
Photo: Edna Ewers Hopkins
Edna Ewers Hopkins, abt 1923 Daughter of Elmer Dennis Hopkins & Emma Ewers Taylor
This Week in the Family History: June 21–27
Feature: Henrietta Pramer Krueger 114 Years Ago: Henrietta Pramer Krueger died suddenly of heart failure on 27 June 1906 at her home in Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky.1“Mrs. Fritz Krueger ,” obituary, Mt. Vernon (Kentucky) Signal, 29 Jun 1906; digital images, Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/ : accessed 29 Jul 2008), Newspapers. She was buried in […]
This Week in the Family History: June 14–20
Feature: Edna Ewers Hopkins 77 Years Ago: Edna Ewers Hopkins married Aubrey Edgar Chesnut, Jr. on 19 June 1943 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida.1Marriage Certificate, 1943; privately held by Edna Hopkins Chesnut. Edna was the daughter of Elmer Dennis Hopkins and Emma Ewers Taylor.2Personal knowledge of author. They lived in Loyall, Kentucky, but the groom […]
Photo: Sisters Cindy & Sary
Sisters Lucinda Howard Hopkins and Sarah Howard Brock (2nd and 3rd from left). Others unknown. Cindy and Sary were the daughters of John Covey Howard and Mary F. Morris. When Sary’s husband died in March 1933, she left Wallins Creek in Harlan County, Kentucky, to live with Cindy near Morrow, Ohio. Cindy’s husband had died […]
This Week in the Family History: May 24–30
Feature: Elmer Dennis Hopkins 102 Years Ago: Elmer Dennis Hopkins enlisted in the U.S. Army less than four years after he was discharged from a three-year enlistment prior to World War I. He was inducted in Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County Kentucky. He was stationed in France from 6 August 1918 to 28 May 1919 and […]
This Week in the Family History: May 3–9
Feature: Madison Owens and Cecilia Owens 157 Years Ago: M. C. Owens completed a marriage bond on 7 May 1863 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, for the intent to marry Cecilia Owens.1 The marriage certificate portion of the bond is blank and no other records in the County Clerk’s office record the official date they married. […]
This Week in the Family History: April 26–May 2
Feature: Elmer Dennis Hopkins 60 Years Ago: Elmer Dennis Hopkins retired from the Louisville and Nashville Railroad 28 April 1960. Except for a break of less than 10 months for service in the U.S. Army from May 1918 to June 1919, he had worked for L & N since 15 December 1915.1 Elmer was working […]
This Week in the Family History: April 19–25
Feature: Thomas Leander Hankins 91 Years Ago: Thomas Leander “Lee” Hankins was my father’s maternal grandfather. Daddy was not quite three years old when Lee died, but he had one vivid memory of him propped up in bed by a straight-back chair turned over to make a wedge and covered in pillows.1 Lee had been […]
This Week in the Family History: March 29–April 4
Feature: James Bailey Hankins 103 Years Ago: Three days after his 16th birthday, James Bailey Hankins enlisted in the U.S. Army on 30 March 1917 at Earlington, Hopkins County, Kentucky.1 His brother William Perry had joined several months earlier on 3 October 1916,2 and their brother Albert Elvie joined a year later on 20 March […]