About Will About Dick Full Name: Thomas Richard Hankins Birth:13 February 1880, Earlington, Hopkins County, Kentucky Death: 11 January 1965, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama Burial: 13 January 1665, Elmwood Cemetery, Springfield, Robertson County, Tennessee Parents: Thomas Leander Hankins and Samantha Angeline Petty Spouses: Bettie Smith and Edith Rhea Jackson About Jimmy Full Name: James Bailey […]
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Photo: After Church at Pleasant Hill
About Gordon Full Name: Jason Gordon Lucas Birth: 2 May 1902, Smith County, Tennessee Death: 22 May 1982, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Burial: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Parents: Jason G. Lucas and Callie M. Denney Spouse: Icy Vernon McCauley About Margaret Full Name: Margaret Wells Parents: Shelby Rhea Wells and Lillie Vashti […]
Photo: Dick & Elvie Hankins Visiting in Greenville
About Dick Full Name: Thomas Richard “Dick” Hankins Birth: 13 February 1880, Earlington, Hopkins County, Kentucky Death: 11 January 1965, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama Burial: 13 January 1965, Elmwood Cemetery, Springfield, Robertson County, Tennessee Parents: Thomas Leander Hankins and Samantha Angeline Petty Spouses: Bettie Smith, Edith Rhea Jackson About Rhea Full Name: Edith Rhea Jackson […]
Photo: J W Dukes & John McCauley
About John Full Name: John William McCauley, Jr. Birth: 8 February 1921, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Death: 15 January 1992, Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky Burial: 17 January 1992, Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Parents: John William McCauley and Verda Waller Hankins Spouse: Elsie Marie Harper About J W Full Name: J W Dukes […]
Photo: Will McCauley & Sons
About Joe About Will About John About David About Photo Location: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Date: 17 May 1942 after Verda Hankins McCauley’s funeral Credit: Courtesy Jeanette Gilliam McCauley
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 13–19
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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 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 […]