Bama Planter

My direct ancestor Nathan Jordan's death occurred about 1835. There are two newspaper sites on line now that I use to search for articles about ancestors. This is the adminstrator advertising, as requried by law, the sale of 2 people he held in bondage. I have done research for 50 years now, and have read so many pre-emancipation estates that the selling of slaves no longer is shocking or even remarkable to me. I think for those who are not familiar with Southern estates, and colonial northern estates, this might be a bit jarring. They can remove all the statues they want, and edit all the history books, but life in those times was what it was.

RE: Rev Joseph Sidney Prentice's father THE PROBLEM: Rev. Joseph's parent Jerry Prentice claims South Carolina as place of birth, and John Prentice and family came to Shelby County from Tennessee, and before that, Kentucky and Virginia. So how can Jerry born about 1815 be born in South Carolina? MY SOLUTION: Jerry Prentice was not an inheritance. He would have been a local purchase by either William L. Prentice or Daniel W. Prentice, the two sons of old John Prentice, sometime between 1840 and 1860. John Prentice ( husband of Rhoda Lovelady) died in 1854. The slave sale of those he held in bondage took place soon after. Appraised on 18 November 1854. Sold on 20 December 1854. 1. Ben , Appraised for $800 Sold for $700 2. Jenny and child Appraised for $1150 Sold as "Jane and child" $1000 3. Malinda and child Appraised for $1000 Sold for $800 4. Fanny Appraised for $700 Sold for $460 5. Harriett Appraised for $600 Sol...

The marriages of my great grandfather and my great great grandfather on my EVANS line have been found. Joe in Denver, the birddog of genealogy, sniffed them out after we found a newspaper article reporting on the marriage of Uriah Evans, brother of my great grandfather. Uriah R. Evans's marriage took place in Cobb County, GA in Marietta. That led us, for the first time, to look at the marriage books there. The marriage record also confirmed that James Evans was indeed James Harrison Evans, as he married as James H. Evans. The cousins in Oklahoma, who descend from another son of his, James Sylvester Evans, assumed that since their direct ancestor was named James also, that the father would have "Sylvester' as his middle name. Not so. Great Aunt Sallie, in her bible, wrote that her grandfather was named James Harrison Evans, which we believe to be correct. 1. James Harrison Evans married Jane Emily Hardin in Cass County ( now renamed Bartow) Georgia on 18 Dece...

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.