by Sharon Hall | May 19, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
A strong thread of American patriotism is evident in both the ancestors and descendants of Robert Christian Humber. He was born on June 2, 1783 in Goochland County, Virginia to parents John and Elizabeth (Christian) Humber, the tenth of thirteen children. The...
by Sharon Hall | May 12, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
Baron DeKalb Stansell was born in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia on November 25, 1833 to parents David and Priscilla (Chastain) Stansell. DeKalb County was established in 1822 from parts of Henry, Gwinett and Fayette counties and named after Baron Johann de Kalb, a...
by Sharon Hall | Apr 29, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
I could just as well tell her story under the “Feisty Female” category of this blog, but I’m choosing to write about the woman known to the country throughout the 1930’s until her death in 1946 as “Aunt Lizzie Devers”. To research her entire life, however,...
by Sharon Hall | Apr 21, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
In case you missed last week’s Tombstone Tuesday article, you might want to read it first since I promised to clear up the mystery of what really happened to the son of Ezekiel and Ella Pettit. The story posted by a family friend at Find-A-Grave left me with more...
by Sharon Hall | Apr 14, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
Ezekiel William Pettit was born in 1837 to parents Samuel and Polly Pettit in the province of Ontario, Canada, not far from the United States border in the township of Townsend. One source indicates that his parents were actually United States citizens, but there are...
by Sharon Hall | Mar 31, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
I came across an interesting story while researching my sister-in-law’s ancestors. Benjamin F. Cooley is her great-great-great grandfather, one of the early settlers of Grayson County, Virginia, and at the time one of the finest clock makers in the country. Here is...
