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MARRIAGE LICENSE COBB COUNTY GA DATED 18 May 1881 URIAH IVINS to SARAH CANTRELL Notice that the marriage certification part, where their names are written a second time, has him as Uriah IRWIN. PROOF that spelling mistakes at the time we very common. The man's last name isn't spelled correctly even on the same page. A different handwriting changes IVINS ( EVANS ) to IRWIN. This is known by all genealogists. New researchers get all upset over these mistakes, which are common and only show that people were not well educated ( even those who worked in the courthouse .

IT IS STRANGE how my mind works lately. I got the Cunningham table ( my great grandparents bought in 1901) back from my uncle in Florida's family. He died in 1990 and his widow just moved to assisted living. None of his children wanted it, so it was either me or the thrift store. It was me. They took the legs off to transport it here from Destin. I'm putting them back on now. 2 down ; 2 to go. I am thinking the next time the legs will be taken off, I will be dead and the table will be on its way to the next generation. I am writing the complete history of it on the underside while I have it on the floor. Hopefully more will be added in the future. I saw that first, on line, on the bottom of an 1840's work table. Every generation who owned/inherited it had written the who , what , when , and where of it.

This is a CDV photograph of Mr. Thomas Hines. The studio was in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A carte de visite photograph such as this dates from 1860 to 1865. The initials on the back : T. L. Hines. There is indeed a Thomas Hines age 76 living in Bowling Green Kentucky on the 1860 census. This would be his photograph !!!!! He lived long enough to have a photo taken! He died in 1861, according to descendants on Ancestry. In the photograph, he is 75 or 76 years old.

NOTICE THE SKILL SAW MARKS...LONG AND EASY TO SEE. THESE ARE THE MARKS OF A NEW BOWL MADE TO BE PASSED OFF AS OLD. THE LONG SAW CUT MARKS GO FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP EDGE OF THE BOWL. THE OUTSIDES OF OLD TRENCHERS ARE SMOOTH. ( THE ROUND ONES WILL SOMETIMES STILL HAVE LATHE MARKS GOING ALL THE WAY AROUND, BUT THE LONG ONES WILL HAVE NO SAW MARKS.) I HAVE COLLECTED THESE FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS. THE AUCTION HOUSE DIDN'T HAVE ANY PICS OF THE SIDES OR BOTTOMM OF THIS BOWL, OR I WOULD HAVE KNOW IT WAS FAKE. THE INSIDES OF THESE BOWLS ARE LEFT "RAW" AND ARE SCRATCHED UP AND GIVEN A FEW STAINS TO LOOK OLD. BUT THE OUTSIDE SAW MARKS WILL ALWAYS GIVE THEM AWAY. EBAY IS FILLED WITH THESE FAKE BOWLS, SELLING ANYWHERE FROM $80 TO OVER $200. I PAID $154 FOR THIS ONE, NOT KNOWING IT WAS FAKE. THE AUCTION HOUSE DID NOT KNOW IT, ETITHER. THIS ONE CAME WITH A SMALL BUTTER BOWL, SO IT WAS NOT A COMPLETE LOSS, AS THE SMALL BUTTER BOWL IS WORTH THE $54. So my loss is about $100 plus...

Faux Marble baseboards. My friend Ian in Greensboro, Alabama, paid an artist ( one of the few who still know how to achieve this look ) to paint them in his antebellum in town. I have a book on several such techniques, and think, with a bit of practice, anyone with some artistic skill could do it. Now, sponge painting requires a bit more of the gifted. The pic is from the lovely home called Swamp Lawn in Oak Hill, North Carolina. The home is currently for sale.

My aunt in Destin has moved to assisted living and the cousins had no room and didn't want my great grandparents dining room table. It was purchased at their marriage in 1901, probably from the Sears-Roebuck catalog, for less than ten dollars ( money was a bit more valuable then ! ) . The cousins are heading to the University of Alabama football game so they will be on the interstate tomorrow ten miles from here. So by noon I should have the table at my house. It was offered to me , and if rejected, it was going to the thrift store ! Below is an example of what it looks like. I will put a cloth on it ( after taking the two leaves out) and use if for a craft table James and Susie lost three boys ( ages 2, 6, and 11) in the Great Pandemic of 1918. My grandfather was the only son who lived. He and his sister caught the flu in Selma while visiting an Aunt for Christmas. They came back sick, and the three brothers got the flu from them and were dead in three weeks. The brother-i...

Back of painting: Armstrong, Painter, Lancaster, 1833. ( Arthur Armstrong was a portrait painter whose studio was in Lancaster, PA ) He is known for about 40 documented paintings and is well known among portrait painting experts in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The back of the painting has a note and I was able to read the inscription as follows: "Mr. Hugh Shaw left Taneytown August 5th 1845 for to do business in City of Baltimore... Shaw and Hickson.... This likeness presented to Dr. O'Neal by his Ma, E. L. Shaw. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Hickson are next door to each other, occupation "merchant" in Baltimore on the 1850 census. The painting is of Evalina L. Crapster O'Neal Shaw She may not be a "famous"person, but her son is ! Daughter of John Crapster ( 1761-1824) and wife Susanna Klein ( 1766-1855) 1st husband Walter O'Neal whom she married in Frederick Co. Maryland 18 January 1820. (The date of the marriage is engraved on the ...

I found this rare biscuit table in Southern Mississippi. The top is 200 pounds of granite and the table is about 2 feet square. I've been looking for one for a while now. They are running a race for price and value with sugar chests. This one came from the hills of Tennessee.

(Photos of Joe Arledge, husband of Lena Lucas. My aunt and uncle during the war and standing as a couple outside of the Wilson Home on Island Street near the library.)................................................................................................................................................................. My mother's sister, Nora Belle Barnett, married my uncle "Check" Carlee. They lived on a farm a few miles southeast of Montevallo in Chilton County. I grew up on a dairy farm that is now Orr Park, but my Uncle Check's farm was an entirely different matter. There were no boring fenced in fields on his farm for herds of milk cows to graze; on the contrary, my uncle's farm consisted of acres and acres of all sorts of vegetable rows, and not a barb wire fence in sight. My mother and I would visit for the day back in the 1960's. I remember picking huge strawberries and field peas ( shelling a bushel was guaranteed to turn your thumb...

It's 1850 and photography is a somewhat new invention. Carl Weber is a wealthy individual and his wife has just died. They never had their photograph taken together, so he has the body brought to the photographer and has her posed with the help of wires. She has been dead about four hours, according to most articles on the photograph.

My great great great grandmother in her bonnet. They are in Madison County, Alabama, at her log cabin. These are six of the seven girls of her son Hiram Melvin Jones : Alta, Louella, Pearl, Irene, Florence, and Emma. My great grandmother had moved to Birmingham and is not in the photo ( Exie ) Their mother was Hiram's wife Mary Lenora Kilpatric Jones.

1930's and 1940's photographs aren't so bad either !!!!

This daguerreotype ( on silver) was exposed in the 1850's. The photographer seems to have preferred to include the hands in the photograph. This young man would also have been of age to serve as a soldier in the War of the Rebellion ( 1861-1865 ) and I hope he wasn't among the 700,000 dead.

I just purchased this photograph Wednesday. He is on glass ( an ambrotype...one of a kind....negatives were not invented yet) and would date from the 1860's. He probably joined the army ( Union or Confederate? ) and fought in the war. Over 700,000 died; we hope he made it through.

Daguerreotype of an elderly lady. This photograph is on silver and dates from the 1850's. She hold her specs in her hand.

Three of the Batavia Town foot ball team from 1897. Left to right: Newell K. Cone ; Arthur Hawkins ; Robert D. Wallace. They played Full Back, Guard, and Tackle.

John Munro Longyear BIRTH 15 Apr 1850 Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan, USA DEATH 23 May 1922 (aged 72) Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA I'm posting his pic to this Google blog so he will enter the Google Images Search Engine for his descendants and for researchers ! “J. M. Longyear spent the greater part of his boyhood days in the city of his birth and acquired his early education in its public schools. He afterward attended Olivet College, also Georgetown College, of the District of Columbia. He was only fifteen years of age when he left school, broken down in health, so that he was unable to engage actively in any work for some years. The year 1872 was largely spent in the woods in the Lower Peninsula, and the outdoor life proved very beneficial, building up a vigorous constitution. The following year he located in Marquette, Michigan, and began examining lands and exploring, and few were the wild tracts in Michigan of which he knew nothing. He traveled all over ...

This is a cdv photo of David K. Myers of Tiffin, Ohio. He is on the 1860 census there. Also on the Seneca, Tiffin, Ohio census of 1880 with a wife and three children. His wife is Mary E. Childs whom he married in 1871. 1850 he is in Seneca County Ohio. He died 1908 in Seneca County and is buried at Greenlawn Cemetery. This research is not mine; all was lifted from family trees on Ancestry. I bought a civil war era album and am posting photographs which are identified in the album. I am not related to him.The last note on the photo reads " Groff Mansion."

William A. Wilson son of Jesse and Elizabeth. Born in Tennessee about 1802. Lived in Anderson and Rutherford Counties there. Moved as a child to Madison County , Alabama about 1806. Then to Shelby County, Alabama. about 1816. Then in 1832 to Coosa County, Alabama. 1st cousin to my gr gr gr grandmother. He married Ann Harkins, daughter of the old Shelby County Alabama planter Andrew Harkins. William A. Wilson's father Jesse Wilson is considered the founder of the town of Montevallo.