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: December 6–12
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 […]
This Week in the Family History: September 13–19
41 Years Ago: Lena M. Taylor died on 19 September 1979 in Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. She was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Mt. Vernon. Lena was the daughter of Margaret Lula Taylor. Lena never married and had no children. One of her neighbors died in the 1950s leaving a young son and Lena […]
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 […]
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: April 12–18
Feature: Berry Howard 118 Years Ago: Berry Howard’s trial for murder regarding the assassination of Kentucky Governor William Goebel began 16 April 1902.1 The Franklin County Grand Jury had returned indictments for ten men—five for murder and five as accessories—nearly two years earlier, on 17 April 1900. Berry was among the five indicted for murder. […]
This Week in the Family History: March 8–14
Feature: Henry Lewis Goodloe 241 Years Ago: Henry Lewis Goodloe was born 10 March 1779 1 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. He was the son of Thomas Allen Goodloe and Dorothy Waller.2 Henry was 10-years-old when his father first appeared on the Fayette County Tax List in 1789, three years before Kentucky gained statehood.3 He […]
This Week in the Family History: March 1–7
Feature: John Covey Howard 214 Years Ago: John Covey Howard was born 6 March 1806 in Knox County, Kentucky. He was the son of John Howard and Mary Risner.1 John was the earliest born of my sixteen 2nd great-grandparents. He also lived longer than the others, dying 20 November 1899 at 93. John Covey married […]
This Week in the Family History: February 16–22
Feature: August Krueger 93 Years Ago: August Krueger died 16 February 1927 in Berea, Madison County, Kentucky. His death certificate lists heart failure as the cause of death, but the family story is that he hemorrhaged when eating either a cracker or cornbread after having a tonsillectomy.1 August was the son of Fritz Krueger and […]