Category: Watridge Family
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The Seeds of my Fascination with Genealogy
I recently found more really old family photos, thanks to my 12-year-old self and my grandmother, Elizabeth Castellaw Williams (1915-1998). I got my first taste of genealogy from “Granny,” as we called her, one summer when I was about 12. I was spending a week with my grandparents near the Holly Grove community in Haywood…
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William Conner Watridge
If you’re like me and enjoy genealogy research, you know how exciting it is to receive an envelope in the mail from a relative filled with photographs, obituaries and other family information. I got to open just such an envelope this week. It came from Carolyn, a family friend who is also from Haywood County…