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In The Beginning...... Year 4: Maybe This Year! 24 Feb 2013 | 02:14 am
As I begin my 4th year of blogging about my family history and genealogy, I find myself winding down and writing has become more sporadic. This past year I was down to posting an average of four times...
Wordless Wednesday: William N. Runyan 1860-1885 13 Feb 2013 | 06:20 pm
William N. "Willie" Runyan - b. 25 May 1860 - d. 4 Jun 1885 Brother of my maternal great grandfather, Robert Noah Runyan Died at age 25 - Buried Spiceland Friends Cemetery - Spiceland, Indiana
Tombstone Tuesday: John and Mary Martin 12 Feb 2013 | 09:30 pm
John was the brother of my paternal great, great grandmother Ursula Ann (Martin) Davis Burnette. His wife was Mary Martha Thompson, daughter of John and Sarah (Debord) Thompson. They were married in P...
The Covert Burial of William Jesse Wallen 4 Feb 2013 | 12:19 am
I suppose I can let this little story slip and not get anyone in trouble since the two concerned are now dead. It's probably not all that unusual an act but I'm pretty sure what the siblings, Sula Spl...
Those Places Thursday: Rockville Road Barber Shop 31 Jan 2013 | 10:15 pm
My maternal grandparents, Lawrence and Fern (Newby) Runyan moved around a lot. Before they were married they both lived in Henry Co., Indiana. After they were married they lived in Marion Co., then De...
Wordless Wednesday: Shadrack Cundiff 1802-1858 30 Jan 2013 | 07:56 pm
Shadrack Cundiff b. 1802 Pulaski Co., KY - d. 1858 Nelson Co., KY Son of Meshack and Elizabeth (Dale) Cundiff, md. Sally Stillwell 1822 Maternal 3rd great grandfather of my husband Mike
Great Grand-Aunt Mary Susan (Davis) Denny 30 Jan 2013 | 12:04 am
Mary Susan is a bit of a mystery in our family. She was the oldest sister of my paternal great grandmother, Sarah Francis (Davis) Wallen-Livesay. Their father, John Miller Davis, died in 1880 when the...
Samuel Grunden: Racism in Mercer Co., Ohio 3 Jan 2013 | 08:28 pm
In 1835 Augustus Wattles, a native of Connecticut , purchased 190 acres of land in southern Mercer Co., Ohio and, just a few years later, founded a school, the Emlen Institute, for the support and e...
Military Monday: Uncle Billy A. Wallen 1 Jan 2013 | 03:07 am
Happy New Year to all! I am finishing out the year with a couple of photos of my paternal uncle, (my only uncle), Billy Athol Wallen, circa 1955, when he served our country as a Paratrooper in the U.S...
Charles Alexander and Josie (Bean) Logsdon 30 Dec 2012 | 01:02 am
Charles Alexander Logsdon, son of William and Alice (McIlvoy) Logsdon, married Ann Josephine "Josie" Bean on 4 Sep 1878 at St. Charles Church in St. Mary, Marion Co., Kentucky. Josie was the daughter...
