Category: Yelverton Family
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James Sumler and Camp Morton
I’ve been working on my Forrest and Sherrod family lines during the holidays, and today I came across an interesting young couple whose courtship appears to have been interrupted by the Civil War and imprisonment. The story also adds another piece to the complicated family history of my third great-grandmother, Ann “Annie” W. Sherrod Yelverton…
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The Will of Samuel Forrest
Thank goodness for wills. Ancestry.com says its U.S. wills and probate collection includes more than 170 million documents from all 50 states, spanning 1668 to 2005. While researching the Forrest, Yelverton and Sherrod families, the will of Samuel Forrest proved very helpful at confirming some of my direct ancestors, while also providing a snapshot of…
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Forrest, Yelverton and Sherrod Connection
For a while now, I’ve been trying to sort out the tangle of the ancestry of my third great-grandmother, Ann “Annie” W. Sherrod Yelverton (1834-1880). She was the mother of my second great-grandmother Nancy Jane Yelverton Lovelace (1861-1936), who was the mother of my great-grandfather James Luther Lovelace (1885-1968), who was the father of my…
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Shiloh National Military Park
Last Sunday, my family and I took a slight detour on our way home to Memphis from Middle Tennessee and visited Shiloh National Military Park. I already knew the park had several special events planned because the 150th anniversary of the battle fell later that week. I did not, however, plan well enough to get…
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Home Sweet Home
Photo: Dred and Ellen Yelverton and their home in Wayne County, NC I am finally taking a break from researching my Yelverton line. That took longer than expected because the Yelvertons turned out to be such an interesting family that I kept getting sidetracked. One of the things I enjoyed most was learning about the…
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John Yelverton and Elizabeth Blount Yelverton
Photo: My second great-grandparents Charlie B. Lovelace and Nancy Jane Yelverton Lovelace My Yelverton family line offers a fascinating look at colonial North Carolina. That branch, as I currently understand it, runs from John Yelverton Sr. (ca. 1685-1750) the father of John Yelverton Jr. (by 1716-1795); the father of Hardy Yelverton (ca. 1755-1828); the father…