By Tonia Kendrick on 3 Sep 2010
Births
Ann (Hubbard) Barstow was born in 1605 in Plymouth County, Massachusetts (currently believed to be my 10th great-grandmother).
Elizabeth Burgin was born in 1817 in Burke County, North Carolina.
Reuben Phillip Johnson was born in 1853 in Georgia (my great-great grandfather).
Lizzie (West) Kendrick was born in 1886 in Murray County, Georgia (my great-grandmother).
Deaths
John Burgin died in 1753 in . . . → : CONTINUE READING
By Tonia Kendrick on 30 Aug 2010
Births
Phillip Burgin was in 1698 in Shrewsbury Parish, Maryland.
John Debord was born in 1730.
William Clark Mackie was born in 1798.
Joseph Lytle Burgin was born in 1846 in Crooked Creek, North Carolina.
Deaths
Ida Rosa (Kendrick) Headrick died in 1948 in Murray County, Georgia.
James B. Hemphill died in 2003 in Dalton, Georgia.
Marriages
Eva Catherine Dellinger and Johann Michael Rudisill were . . . → : CONTINUE READING
By Tonia Kendrick on 18 Aug 2010
Births
Lydia (Richards) Atchley was born in 1762 in Loudoun County, Virginia (currently believed to be my 6th-great-grandmother).
Margaret Rebecca (Hemphill) Young was born in 1840 in Burke County, North Carolina.
Nancy Elizabeth Ellis was born in 1862 in Murray County, Georgia.
Deaths
Sally (Rudd) Hood died in 1828.
Miles Marion Scott died in 1889.
James Leach McEntire died in 1920 in Murray . . . → : CONTINUE READING
By Tonia Kendrick on 15 Aug 2010
Births
Margaret (Bushart) Barringer was born in 1742 in Newton, North Carolina.
Rhoda (Cunningham) Alexander was born in 1763 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (my 4th-great-grandmother).
John Wesley Ellis was born in 1847.
Robert Daniel Mathis was born in 1852.
Columbus P. Hemphill was born in 1857.
Cora Lee (Fouts) Kendrick was born in 1881 in Murray County, Georgia.
Mollie Victoria (Childers) Roberts was . . . → : CONTINUE READING
By Tonia Kendrick on 27 Jul 2010
Births
John Walling was born in 1750.
Archibald McEntire Hemphill was born in 1818.
Bertha Neoma (Whitener) Horner was born in 1907.
Deaths
Addie W. (Marshell) Forrester died in 1924.
Marriages
John Headrick and Ida Rosa Kendrick were married in 1890.
Lillian Irene Ridley and Earnest Edward Roberts were married in 1906.
Military
William Adolphus Whitener re-enlisted in the Army and proceeded to serve in the . . . → : CONTINUE READING
By Tonia Kendrick on 24 Jul 2010

This week’s Surname Saturday post focuses on the Baxters, one of my major brick walls, as regular readers will know. The line starts with my great-great-grandmother, Barbara Baxter. Barbara is the little old lady, front and center, in the collage (click on image to view a larger version).
Barbara was born February 1854, possibly in Murray County, . . . → : CONTINUE READING
By Tonia Kendrick on 23 Jul 2010
Births
John Burk was born in 1760.
Elizabeth Sophronia (Lytle) Burgin was born in 1795.
Benjamin C. Hemphill was born in 1824.
Marriages
Hans Martin Dellinger and Anna Barbara Seitz were married in 1726.
Martha Blair and John William Whitesides were married in 1835.
Margaret Black and John O. Ellis were married in 1840.
Victory Chastain and Newton Coleman Forrester were married in 1882.
Francis . . . → : CONTINUE READING
By Tonia Kendrick on 18 Jul 2010

The Baxters are one of my major brick walls, as regular readers will know. Barbara Baxter was my great-great-grandmother; for a long time, she was the only Baxter I knew about. I recently discovered her father’s name, but I haven’t been able to go much further. A few months ago, I obtained Barbara’s death certificate, hoping . . . → : CONTINUE READING
By Tonia Kendrick on 26 Jun 2010

West is another of the family lines for which I only have three generations of information. I’ve only known about the Wests for a couple of years.
Lizzie West (1886-1973), my great-grandmother, was the second wife of Francis Taylor Kendrick. As far as I know, she lived in Murray County, Georgia all her life. She and France . . . → : CONTINUE READING