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This Week in the Family History: April 30–May 6

April 30, 2023

This Week in the Family History: April 30–May 6, 2023

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161 Years Ago: Robert H. Gamble

Robert H. Gamble joined Company H of the 41st Confederate Infantry at Carrollton, Georgia in March 1862. He died of disease less than two months later on 3 May 1862 in Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi. Robert was buried in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus.

Robert, the son of David Gamble and Anna Finney of Heard County, Georgia, was born about 1826 in South Carolina. The family moved to Heard County a few years later. Robert married Burnetta Pitts about 1847. They had four children—the oldest about fourteen and the youngest four years old when Robert died.

Relationship: McCauley Line; Brother of 2nd great-grandmother Martha Gamble.

McCauley Line

179 Years Ago: Andrew Jackson Newell

  • Born: 3 May 1844, Georgia
  • Parents: Thomas Newell and Frances Lanier
  • Relationship: 1st cousin of great-grandfather Joseph Smith Lanier

146 Years Ago: Emma R. Orrick

  • Born: 6 May 1877, Alabama
  • Parents: James J. Orrick and Susan Charlotte Lanier
  • Relationship: 1st cousin of paternal grandfather, John William McCauley

114 Years Ago: Joseph Smith Lanier

  • Died: 1 May 1909, near Birmingham, Alabama
  • Parents: William Washington Lanier and Charlotte T. Jackson
  • Relationship: Great-grandfather

121 Years Ago: Jason Gordon Lucas, Sr.

  • Born: 2 May 1902, Smith County, Tennessee
  • Parents: Jason G. Lucas and Callie Mary Denny
  • Spouse: Icy Vernon McCauley
  • Relationship: Uncle by marriage

97 Years Ago: George W. Caswell

  • Died: 4 May 1926, Mitchell County, Texas
  • Parents: Benjamin Franklin Caswell and Charity Ann Jackson
  • Relationship: 1st cousin of great-grandfather Joseph Smith Lanier

60 Years Ago: Myra Brown Marion

  • Died: 3 May 1963, Georgia
  • Spouse: Joseph J. Marion
  • Relationship: Wife of 1st cousin of father, David Hankins McCauley

12 Years Ago: Kathryn Louise McCauley Tomes

  • Died: 3 May 2011, Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois
  • Parents: John William McCauley and Verda Waller Hankins
  • Relationship: Paternal aunt

Hankins Line

292 Years Ago: Zachary Lewis

  • Born: 6 May 1732, Virginia
  • Parents: Zachary Lewis and Mary Waller
  • Relationship: 1st cousin of 5th great-grandmother Dorothy Waller

246 Years Ago: Elizabeth Berry

  • Born: 1 May 1777, Virginia
  • Parents: John Berry and Elizabeth ?
  • Relationship: 4th great-grandmother

246 Years Ago: Agnes Carr Goodloe

  • Born: 3 May 1777, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
  • Parents: Thomas Allen Goodloe and Dorothy Waller
  • Relationship: 4th great-grandmother

184 Years Ago: Sarah Washington Goodloe

  • Born: 1 May 1839, Hopkins County, Kentucky
  • Parents: Thomas Kemp Goodloe and Diana Dunkerson
  • Relationship: 1st cousin of 2nd great-grandmother Isabella Jane Goodloe

128 Years Ago: Ethel May Alvord

  • Born: 4 May 1895, Seattle, King County, Washington
  • Parents: Frank Alvord and Katherine Kleckner
  • Spouse: Albert Elvie Hankins (his 5th wife)
  • Relationship: Sister-in-law of paternal grandmother, Verda Waller Hankins

Hopkins Line

398 Years Ago: James Cole and Mary Tibbes

  • Married: 1 May 1625, Barnstaple, Devonshire, England
  • James’s Parents: unknown
  • Mary’s Parents: unknown
  • Relationship: 10th great-grandparents

342 Years Ago: Hugh Cole and Deborah Buckland

  • Married: 6 May 1681, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  • Hugh’s Parents: Hugh Cole and Mary Foxwell
  • Deborah’s Parents: Joseph Buckland and Deborah Allen
  • Relationship: 8th great-grandparents

307 Years Ago: Joseph Cole

  • Born: 3 May 1716, Swansea, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  • Parents: Hugh Cole and Martha Luther
  • Relationship: 6th great-grandfather

285 Years Ago: Joseph Cole and Freelove Mason

  • Married: 1 May 1738, Swansea, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  • Joseph’s Parents: Hugh Cole and Martha Luther
  • Freelove’s parents: Joseph Mason and Elizabeth Barney
  • Relationship: 6th great-grandparents

281 Years Ago: Joanna Cole

  • Born: 6 May 1742, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  • Parents: Joseph Cole and Freelove Mason
  • Relationship: Sister of 5th great grandmother Elizabeth Cole

168 Years Ago: Nancy Ellender Howard

  • Born: 1 May 1855, Harlan County, Kentucky
  • Parents: Jacob Howard and Mahaley Brock
  • Spouse: Jacob B. Howard
  • Relationship: Sister-in-law of great-grandmother Lucinda Howard

161 Years Ago: Caroline J. Howard

  • Born: 5 May 1862, Harlan County, Kentucky
  • Parents: Benjamin Howard and Lucy Wilson
  • Spouse: Newberry Howard
  • Relationship: Sister-in-law of great-grandmother Lucinda Howard

104 Years Ago: Henry Madison Hopkins

  • Married: Bessie Hamlin, 1 May 1919, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
  • Parents: James Arton Hopkins and Lucinda Howard
  • Relationship: Brother of maternal grandfather, Elmer Dennis Hopkins

79 Years Ago: Jean Christine Hopkins

  • Born: 4 May 1944, Genesee County, Michigan
  • Parents: Leo Berry Hopkins and Marie Beedy
  • Relationship: 1st cousin of mother, Uta Faye Hopkins

10 Years Ago: Dennis Jay Chesnut

  • Died: 2 May 2013, Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky
  • Parents: Aubrey Edgar Chesnut and Edna Ewers Hopkins
  • Relationship: 1st cousin

Taylor Line

170 Years Ago: Spencer Mullins

  • 1 May 1853, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
  • Parents: Henry Mullins and Mary Terry
  • Relationship: 4th great-grandfather

148 Years Ago: Celia Anna Griffin

  • Married: Alfred Jones Pike, 5 May 1875, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
  • Parents: John Nelson Griffin and Mary Owens
  • Relationship: 1st cousin of great-grandmother Emma Jane Owens

127 Years Ago: Phoebe Jane Parsons

  • Born: 30 April 1896, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
  • Parents: Theard Parsons and Nancy A. Taylor
  • Relationship: Half 1st cousin of great-grandfather John Cook Taylor

93 Years Ago: John T. Taylor

  • Married: Winnie Winkler, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
  • Parents: Thomas Jefferson Taylor and Laura Sowder
  • Relationship: Half 1st cousin of great-grandfather John Cook Taylor

92 Years Ago: Armpstead Adams Lair

  • Died: 2 May 1931, Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
  • Parents: Jerome Burke Lair and Ann French
  • Relationship: Half 1st cousin of great-grandfather John Cook Taylor

82 Years Ago: Wilmoth Abney

  • Died: 30 April 1941, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
  • Parents: Elijah Abney and Emily Owens
  • Relationship: 1st cousin of great-grandmother Emma Jane Owens

62 Years Ago: Wood I. Thompson

  • Died: 3 May 1961, Anderson, Madison County, Indiana
  • Parents: Charles F. Thompson and Sophfronia Coell
  • Spouse: Rosa Margaret Riickert
  • Relationship: Husband of 1st cousin of Emma Ewers Taylor

This Week in the Family History

Linda F. McCauley

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