Category: Marbury Family
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Celebrating the Fourth of July & Our Family Connection to “The Star-Spangled Banner”
My niece and her fiance were visiting for the week, so we decided to celebrate Independence Day with a family road trip to find the grave of Dr. William Beanes (1749-1828). Beanes is not a direct ancestor, but he is connected to our family through the Marbury line. He also played a fascinating role in…
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The Gunter-Marbury Family Connection
A while back, I saved this photo on my computer because I liked it so much and planned to figure out who these people were when I giot a chance. I forgot about it until I ran across it again recently, and once again it captured my imagination. I originally got the photo from my…
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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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B. F. Marbury and Mary, His Wife
On my list of favorite headstones is one in Zion Baptist Church Cemetery in Haywood County, Tennessee. Until this week, I thought it marked the graves of my third great-grandparents, Benjamin Franklin Marbury (1849-1884) and his wife, Margaret “Maggie” Yelverton Marbury (1853-1884). The problem there is the name. While working on the Yelverton line, I…
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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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The Marbury Line to Prince William
Photo: Back row: my maternal grandfather, Guy Lovelace and my grandmother’s cousin, Hardy B. Marbury, Middle row: my maternal grandmother, Virginia Brantley Lovelace holding my Uncle Bobby Lovelace; My grandmother’s sister, Cordelia Brantley; My grandmother’s maternal grandmother, Lena Booth Marbury; my grandmother’s mother, Allie Marbury Brantley; and her father, Willie BrantleyFront row: my grandmother’s sister,…
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Dr. William Beanes and The Star-Spangled Banner
While Dr. William Beanes is not a direct ancestor of mine, he was closely connected to the Marbury family and is now one of those people I will think about every time I hear “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Leonard Marbury was my sixth great-grandfather. He had a brother named Luke Marbury Sr. Luke Sr.’s son, also…