Stephen Henry Hopkins and his wife Malinda Ann Poff left the Cumberland Gap area in a wagon train heading west about 1869.
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This Week in the Family History: July 30–August 5, 2023
Curtis Lyle Petty died on 2 August 1971 in Evansville, Vanderburg County, Indiana. Curtis sold jewelry and my father bought my mother’s engagement ring from him.
This Week in the Family History: July 9–15, 2023
Genealogy research uncovers many children who lived very short lives—some unknown to later generations. Herbert Hankins, son of Albert Elvie Hankins and Mary Ella Edmonds, and Roxie Hankins, daughter of Richard Thomas Hankins and Bettie Smith, were two of those children.
This Week in the Family History: June 25–July 1, 2023
Hugh Cole, born on 29 June 1628 in Barnstaple, Devonshire, England, was five years old when he, his parents, and siblings immigrated from England to Plymouth Colony in 1633.
This Week in the Family History: June 18–24, 2023
James Jackson Lanier, son of William Washington Lanier and Charlotte T. Jackson, died on 21 June 1902 in Fredonia, Chamber County, Alabama. He was buried there beside his parents in New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery.
This Week in the Family History: June 11–17, 2023
Frances Elizabeth Lanier was born on 12 June 1859. She married three times and had eight children. Five of her children died as infants or young children.
This Week in the Family History: June 4–10, 2023
Kathleen White Neely appeared in a Life Magazine ad for Maytag washers in 1961.
This Week in the Family History: April 16–22, 2023
Dicie Vernon Goodloe Wyatt died on 19 April 1975 in Hopkins County, Kentucky at age 93. She was buried in Grapevine Cemetery.
This Week in the Family History: March 12–18, 2023
Delinda Younger Weeks married Elisha Shaw on 13 March 1831 in Pope County, Illinois. Delinda’s first husband and father of her first six children, James Weeks, died around 1827 in Livingston County, Kentucky.
This Week in the Family History: March 5–11, 2023
Nehemiah Hopkins married Elizabeth Cole on 11 March 1762 in Warren, Bristol County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Even though the United States did not yet exist, both Nehemiah and Elizabeth already had deep roots in what became this country.
