Category: Jacocks Family
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Finding the Jacocks Cemetery in Haywood County, Tenn.
Since I transcribed and uploaded this letter and this letter from John Hill Jacocks (1831-1902), which I found on my 50th Birthday Genealogy Road Trip, I’ve been looking for the Haywood County, Tennessee, cemetery where he was buried. It was supposed to be on Brantley Road, but I couldn’t find it. Thanks to my cousin…
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Letter from John Hill Jacocks of Haywood County to Jonathan Joseph Jacocks of Bertie County
Photo: Possibly John Hill Jacocks and Emily Naker Nicholls A letter I found in the Jonathan Jacocks Papers in the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is especially meaningful considering so many of my ancestors migrated from Bertie to Haywood County. Of course, many of those…
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Trouble comes not single-handed
This is the first post using content from my recent genealogy road trip to Chapel Hill, N.C., It features one of the many letters I found in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This letter was in the “Jonathan Jacocks Papers, 1732-1908” collection. The collection includes letters to…
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Lots of Love, Cordilia
Photo: Dorothy Cordelia Brantley Jacocks (1919-present) / A few days ago, I posted a blog about the Haywood High School class of 1939 that included a photo of my great uncle J.T. Jacocks. He married my grandmother’s sister, Cordelia Brantley. I have a copy of a letter written by Aunt Cordelia to my grandmother the…