Category: Lovelace Family
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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…
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Red Wallet Photo Gallery
During the holidays, I was looking through boxes of old photos at my parents’ house when I came across an old red wallet crammed full of small Polaroids taken from the mid- to late 1960s. They feature me, the little boy in the photos, and my family as we lived and played more than 50…
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Lena Booth Marbury’s Friends List
Photo: Mable Marbury Jackson, Sarah Evalena “Lena” Booth Marbury and Allie Marbury Brantley / I have been researching the Booth family and preparing to upload what I have learned to my site. Christmas at my mother’s house gave me a good excuse to look for an interesting “Booth” document I thought I remembered among the…
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42 Annual Lovelace Family Reunion
Every third Sunday in September, the descendants of James Luther “Jim” Lovelace (1885-1968) and Ruby Fowler Lovelace (1887-1952) gather for the Lovelace Family Reunion that has been going on for more than 40 years. The reunion now takes place at the home of my great-aunt Carolyn Lovelace. She and my great-aunt Marie Lovelace, who is…
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Lillie Overton Lovelace at Lakeland, 1962
Joe Lovelace of Texarkana, Arkansas, sent me a batch of great family photos this week. Joe’s grandfather, William Wilbert “Will” Lovelace (1883-1943), and my great-grandfather, James Luther “Jim” Lovelace (1885-1968), were brothers. Lillie Overton Lovelace, 1962 My favorite photo shows Will’s wife, Lillie L. Overton Lovelace (1883-1979), at Lakeland on July 8, 1962. Lakeland opened…
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New Cobb and Lovelace Photos
I recently wrote about the photos of my third-great-grandparents that Diane Lyle sent me. She also sent photos of several relatives who sit a little farther out on the branches of my family tree. I had already included many of them in my ancestry charts, but photographs put faces with the names. I think when…
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Centerville School Photo
Photo: Children at Centerville School in Haywood County, Tennessee, around 1918 In a recent post, I mentioned that I hoped to find a better copy of a photo showing students at Centerville School. A distant cousin I had never met saw the post and called with good news. Joan Cobb—pronounced Jo Ann—who lives in Bells,…
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America Firsthand
I just returned from a family camping trip on the Spring River in Hardy, Arkansas. I declared the outing a “no-electronics trip” with no phones, Kindles or iPads. Of course, books were encouraged. Being outdoors on the bank of a river turned out to be the perfect place to read “America Firsthand, Volume One: Readings…
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1934 Scrapbook
The casts of the Nickelodeon TV shows “iCarly” and “Victorious” visited my workplace, Graceland, today, and I found it fascinating to watch the kids reactions to celebrities. No doubt many of the photos they took will end up being posted in the current online version of a scrapbook. Cast members from Nickelodeon’s “iCarly” and “Victorious,”…
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Happy Mothers Day
Since it’s Mother’s Day, I thought I would share three stories my mother, Shirley Lovelace Williams, has told me over the years. One of my mom’s earliest memories comes from when she was about eight years old. She had been looking forward to traveling with her family from Brownsville, Tennessee, to Memphis to visit their…