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Chapter- Virginia
Right now since I am in Virginia, I will focus on the Virginia chapters. Some of the Boggesses lived right near where I am now. Paul Patrick- Bristol Parish, Surry, Virginia 1730- died in North CArolina Jeremiah Boggus- Prince William County Lewis Pa...
A Book for My Grandfather?
We have a book on my Grandmother’s family. There is a lot written about them. On the hand, not much is written on my GRandfather’s family. The problem is that my grandfather’s parents divorced. His mother remarried and his name was ...
The Lineage of Willie Inez McDonald
1. Willie Inez McDonald was born on 30 December 1887 in Dyer, Gibson, Tennessee and died on 27 November 1975 in Milan, Gibson, Tennessee. She as known as “Momma Warren” and the “prettiest girl at Bell’s Chapel” PARENTS 2...
The Lineage of William Clint Warren
1. William Clint Warren was born on 07 June 1886 in Lobelville, Perry, Tennessee. He died on 14 January 1944 in Rutherford, Gibson, Tennessee. He married Willie Inez McDonald on 22 June 1905 in Rutherford, Gibson, Tennessee.He is buried at Bell’...
The Lineage of John Fred Johnson
1. John Fred Johnson was born on the 09 of July 1875 in Maury County, Tennessee and died in 1947 in Memphis, Tennessee. He married Annie Blanch Isbell on 12 August 1899 in Dyer County, Tennessee and is buried in Obion County, Tennessee. PARENTS 2. ...
The Lineage of Annie Blanche Isbell
1. Annie Blanche Isbell was born 26 September 1885 in Underwood, Clark, Indiana and died on 22 April 1959 in Kentucky. She married John Fred Johnson on 12 August 1899 in Dyer County, Tennessee. She is buried at Union Grove Cemetery in Obion County, T...
Annie Isbell
My grandmother used to tell me the story about how when her parents worked, she would stay at her grandmother’s, Annie Isbell Johnson’s house. Her son was in WWII and when the news would come on the radio she would require the kids to be ...
Marion Jefferson “Van” Patrick
Hopefully I will have more to add: 27 Apr 1907 Dies in Griffin, Spalding, Georgia. Wife will live with daughter Addie and Kate. 1900 Census- Griffin, Spalding, Georgia Marion lives with wife Hannah and daughter Kate. They have a servant named Joe Smi...
ISAAC MCGINTY
1860 Census Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia (Cabin District) age 80 with wife Mary age 60. He lives next to his daughters Lucinda Heflin (Lucindy) and Adaline Ogletree (Addie?) He is listed as a pauper. 1850 District 42, Henry County, Georgia age 7...
Information from Wiley Heflin’s Will
Henry County Georgia, Will Book A, 1834-1867 p.10-11 17th Oct 1832 1. Wife (Hannah) Feather Bed furniture and stead slave Morgan which after her death will be given to Wiley J. 2. Elizabeth Patrick (wife of Luke Patrick) North Half of land No. 107 in...
The Perfect Genealogy Getaway
I figured out the best way to have a genealogy getaway: stay in a plantation bed and breakfast! I found one in Double Cabins near where my own ancestors had a plantation. What a perfect way to see how they lived. The next morning after a morning stro...
John Fred Johnson
John Fred Johnson is my great great grandfather on my mother’s mother’s side. I am almost finished with my fifth generation! If you notice my fifth generation is getting younger and younger. That is because my mother is the oldest child a...
Genealogy Project
I know that I have a sort of ADD when it comes to genealogy. I research here and there and when I hit a brick wall I stop and go elsewhere. I have been working on my father’s family to give my mother more time to work on hers. My mother has boo...
MARSHALL DANIEL MAJORS
I finally have a copy of a picture of my great great grandfather, Marshall Daniel Majors. He was born in 1845 in Marion County, Georgia and died in 1932 in Alabama and is buried in Ripley, Tennessee. This is a copy of the original picture that is in ...
Trip to Annapolis
I went to Annapolis last Tuesday and had a wonderful time! Annapolis is a beautiful city on the Chesapeake Bay. It also has a lot of history, including my family history. My Watkins side comes from that area. I am related to the Gassaways, Chews, Bur...
Politicians in the Family
Since Election Day is coming soon, I will write about a few politicians we have in our family. Being involved in our communities in an old family tradition that I honestly have not kept up. I don’t have any world famous politicians in my family...
The Grey Lady of Maidstone
My sister-in-law shared a story about a lady who married one of her distant cousins who <a href=”http://melissaclee.com/2008/10/30/i-am-related-to-the-ghost-of-bell-inn/#comments”>haunts an inn</a> in Essex, England. The s...
St. Paul’s Parish Rock Creek
Most of the family of Captain Joseph Magruder lived in St. Paul’s Parish in what used to be Prince George’s Parish. Joseph Magruder’s father was a vestryman in this parish. There is now a beautiful cemetery there in Rock Creek Cemet...
The Library of Congress
As many of you know, I live near Washington DC. The Library of Congress is 22 miles away! There are many family history books there including most volumes of the Yearbook of the American Clan Gregor Society. I am excited because they have information...
Robert White Magruder
Robert White Magruder was born in 1788 in Montgomery County, Maryland. He is the youngest child of Catherine Fleming and Captain Joseph Magruder. He married Catherine Jane Offutt in 1809 in Maryland and had a son also named Robert White Magruder. He ...
Greenbury Magruder
Greenbury Magruder was born in 1784 in Montgomery County, Maryland and is the younger brother of my fourth great grandmother, Catherine Magruder Watkins. In 1804, he married Jane Scott in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is not known if he had any c...
John Burgess Magruder
John Burgess Magruder is the oldest son of Catherine Fleming Magruder and Joseph Magruder. He was born in 1782 in Montgomery County, Maryland one year younger than his sister Catherine. In 1803, he married Mary (Polly) Beall. They had two children ...
Catherine Magruder
Catherine Magruder is my fourth great grandmother. She is the daughter of Joseph Magruder and Catherine Fleming. he was obviously named for her mother. She was born in 1781 in Montgomery County, Maryland in an area which I believe is now part of Wash...
Rutherford County Tennessee Roots
As you saw before in the previous post, the children of Ann Magruder, Catherine’s sister, moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee. The Wades were among the first to settle there. William Wade who was James Wade’s brother went first and late...
ANN MAGRUDER
Ann Magruder was the daughter of Joseph and Catherine Fleming Magruder and the sister of my direct ancestor, Catherine Magruder. According to her mother’s bible, Ann was born on March 16, 1779 in Montgomery County, Maryland in what is now part ...
Margaret Magruder McCarty
Margaret Magruder is the daughter of Joseph and Mary Jackson Magruder and half sister of my direct ancestor Catherine Magruder. I found a birth date for her that I cannot verify, 25 Jan 1764. She married Josiah Magruder McCarty. I have no information...
Samuel Jackson Magruder
According to the American Clan Gregor Society Yearbook of 1915, the birth of Samuel Jackson Magruder, son of Joseph Magruder and Mary Jackson and half-brother of my direct ancestor Catherine Magruder, was recorded in the St. Paul’s Parish which...
Lloyd Belt Magruder and the Missouri Magruders
Lloyd Belt Magruder appears to be the only son of Joseph Magruder II to have children. LloyLloyd made up for that by having 11 children. Lloyd B Magruder married Nancy Ann Overall in Bullitt County, Kentucky in 1830 according to the records. These ar...
Joseph Magruder Jr
A Joseph Magruder signed petition that was read in the House of Delegates on Nov 1799. “Petitions from Reuben Allen, Joseph Burneston, John Deaver, Samuel Foudray and Patrick Mellion, of the city of Baltimore, Abel Sarjeant, Samuel Selby, 3d,...
Breakfast
I am not a morning person and never have been. My brain remains in a fog and it takes me about 30 minutes to wake up. Sometimes I lie there frustrated that I can’t remember the wonderful dream I had the night before. Sometimes I think up a whol...
