Category: Shirley Family
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Unity Shirley: An Early Haywood County Settler
Photo: Me; my mother, Shirley Williams; her father, Guy Lovelace; his father, James L. Lovelace; his father, Charles B. Lovelace; and his mother Angeline Shirley Lovelace who was the daughter of Unity Shirley. I wish we had named one of our daughters Unity. Not only is it something we could use a little more of…
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Finding Aunt Helen Shirley
Photo: Aunt Helen Shirley Joan, the relative who sent me the photographs of my third great-grandparents, Thomas A. Lovelace (1812-1876) and Quincy A. Shirley Lovelace (1828-1898), recently sent another photo. This one is of a woman her mother always called “Aunt Helen Shirley.” Joan’s mother had given the photograph to Joan’s daughter, along with a…
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Thomas A. and Quincy A. Shirley Lovelace
Photo: Thomas A. Lovelace (1812-1876) and Quincy A. Shirley Lovelace I recently met my distant cousin Joan in Bells, Tennessee, and she connected me with another family member, Diane, who also had some ancestor photos I have not seen. Among the Lovelace photographs I hope to share later, Diane had something I never expected to…