Category: Forrest Family
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James Sumler and Camp Morton
I’ve been working on my Forrest and Sherrod family lines during the holidays, and today I came across an interesting young couple whose courtship appears to have been interrupted by the Civil War and imprisonment. The story also adds another piece to the complicated family history of my third great-grandmother, Ann “Annie” W. Sherrod Yelverton…
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Billy King and the Forrest Cemetery
Billy King, Photo credit: Cypress Magazine / While I was back in Tennessee recently, my father, youngest daughter and I stopped by the Forrest Cemetery for the first time. In researching the Forrest family, I had seen numerous references to this cemetery and was looking forward to seeing it in person. Author and historian Billy…
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The Will of Samuel Forrest
Thank goodness for wills. Ancestry.com says its U.S. wills and probate collection includes more than 170 million documents from all 50 states, spanning 1668 to 2005. While researching the Forrest, Yelverton and Sherrod families, the will of Samuel Forrest proved very helpful at confirming some of my direct ancestors, while also providing a snapshot of…
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Forrest, Yelverton and Sherrod Connection
For a while now, I’ve been trying to sort out the tangle of the ancestry of my third great-grandmother, Ann “Annie” W. Sherrod Yelverton (1834-1880). She was the mother of my second great-grandmother Nancy Jane Yelverton Lovelace (1861-1936), who was the mother of my great-grandfather James Luther Lovelace (1885-1968), who was the father of my…