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Home Sweet Home
Photograph that appeared in the Brownsville States Graphic newspaper in an article about my grandmother’s updated kitchen. Growing up, I spent a lot of time at my grandparents’ house in Haywood County, Tennessee. Lloyd “Bo” Williams and Elizabeth Castellaw Williams, whom we called Daddy Bo and Granny, both grew up near the house on Poplar…
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Castellaw Family Reunion
Gathering at Holly Grove Baptist Church A Castellaw Family Reunion was held this past weekend at Holly Grove Baptist Church in Haywood County, Tennessee. It was a fun time as descendants of Thomas Jefferson Castellaw Jr. (1841–1879), and Nancy Marianna Johnson Castellaw (1844-1921) gathered with descendants of their son and daughter-in-law, Robert Edward “Bob” Castellaw…
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Looking for George Williams
I have been trying to learn more about George Williams, my fourth great-grandfather, and recently I got a little more help from Lynn, who knows a lot about the old churches of Bertie County, North Carolina. She gave me some additional clues about where George may have come from before he turned up in West…
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From Alex and Liv to Alfred the Great
The journey from Scotland to Haywood County, Tennessee The Marbury family is loaded with interesting characters and, if you are willing to hop back and forth between husbands and wives for a few generations, it appears possible to get from my daughters, Alex and Liv, all the way back to Alfred the Great. Along the…
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The Ark and The Dove
The Marbury family has kept me busy the last few weeks. There are a lot of men named Francis and Leonard, and once you get back into Maryland, they begin to multiply in a hurry. Add in old naming patterns, Revolutionary War service and genealogy sites that copy from one another, and it can be…
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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…