Tonia's Roots » Photos http://www.toniasroots.net Family History and Genealogy Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:01:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wordless Wednesday: William West and Leaty Lankford http://www.toniasroots.net/2011/05/18/wordless-wednesday-william-west-and-leaty-lankford/ http://www.toniasroots.net/2011/05/18/wordless-wednesday-william-west-and-leaty-lankford/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 21:45:51 +0000 Tonia Kendrick http://www.toniasroots.net/?p=7925

My great-great grandparents.

William Marion West and Leaty Caroline Lankford

Source: J. Thompson, [e-mail for private use], to Tonia Kendrick, e-mail, 5 March 2011, “Re: [Tonia's Roots] New Comment On: Seeking Robert West Information,”; privately held by Kendrick, [e-mail & address for private use].

]]> http://www.toniasroots.net/2011/05/18/wordless-wednesday-william-west-and-leaty-lankford/feed/ 3 Reuben Johnson and Martha Garrett: Tombstone Tuesday http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/06/08/reuben-johnson-and-martha-garrett-tombstone-tuesday/ http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/06/08/reuben-johnson-and-martha-garrett-tombstone-tuesday/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:09:10 +0000 Tonia Kendrick http://www.toniasroots.net/?p=2346

Reuben Phillip Johnson and Martha Jane Garrett were my great-great-grandparents.  Reuben was born September 3, 1853 in Georgia and died April 15, 1911.1 2  Martha was born June 7, 1854, also in Georgia, and died October 26, 1929.3 4  They were married about 18775 and had eight children, all of whom lived to adulthood.

Reuben and Martha lived their whole lives in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Georgia, in Gilmer County as children and in Fannin County as adults.  They are buried in Johnson Cemetery in Fannin County.6  The cemetery is across the road from an old church house (now a Fellowship Baptist Church).  According to my grandmother, Reuben, whom she called “Grandpa Johnson,” donated the land on which the church is built.

  1. Johnson Cemetery (Fannin County, Georgia; Latitude: 34.72170, Longitude: -84.24670; across the road from Fellowship Baptist Church), Reuben P. and Martha Johnson monumental inscription, personally photographed, 19 Jul 2009. ↩
  2. 1900 U.S. census, Fannin County, Georgia population schedule, Stock Hill, enumeration district (ED) 29, sheet 5, p. 343 A (stamped), dwelling 85, family 85, Rubin P. Johnson; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll 195. ↩
  3. Johnson Cemetery (Fannin County, Georgia), Reuben P. and Martha Johnson monumental inscription. ↩
  4. 1900 U.S. census, Fannin County, Georgia pop. sch., Stock Hill, ED 29, sheet 5, p. 343 A (stamped), dwell. 85, fam. 85, Martha J. Johnson. ↩
  5. 1900 U.S. census, Fannin County, Georgia pop. sch., Stock Hill, ED 29, sheet 5, p. 343 A (stamped), dwell. 85, fam. 85, Rubin P. and Martha J. Johnson. ↩
  6. Johnson Cemetery (Fannin County, Georgia), Reuben P. and Martha Johnson monumental inscription. ↩
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Newton Coleman Ward and Rachel Louisa Johnson were my great-grandparents.  Newt was born 24 Oct 1890 in Fannin County, Georgia1 and died 01 Aug 1974 in Whitfield County, Georgia.2  Rachel was born 09 Aug 1892 and died 16 Feb 19803 in Murray County, Georgia.4  They were married in 1909.5  They had eight children – seven girls and a boy.

Newt was a farmer6 when their children were young and he also made moonshine.  According to my grandmother, he spent some time as a streetcar conductor in Birmingham, Alabama, but I haven’t found any documentation of that yet.  After their son, Worth, died, Newt and Rachel moved to Murray County, where he worked in the Cohutta Talc Mine.7

Rachel was a midwife – my grandmother tells stories of her mother being called out in all kinds of weather to deliver babies.  After they moved to Murray County, Rachel cooked lunch every day at the mine where  Newt worked.  According to my grandmother, “everyone” from town came to eat because the food was so good (no doubt this is where my grandmother got her cooking skills from).  In later years, Rachel made and sold quilts.  I loved to visit her when I was little, because she always let me play with the quilt scraps and piece together little squares.  She left me her quilting machine when she died.

Newt and Rachel are buried in Johnson Cemetery in Fannin County, alongside their son and her parents and family.8

  1. “World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” database and images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 Oct 2009), Newton Coleman Ward, serial no. 880, order no. 11, Draft Board 0, Fannin County, Georgia; citing World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, NARA microfilm publication M1509. ↩
  2. “Georgia Deaths, 1919-98,” database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 Dec 2007), entry for Newton C. Ward (1 Aug 1974); citing State of Georgia. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998. Georgia, USA: Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records. ↩
  3. Johnson Cemetery (Fannin County, Georgia; Latitude: 34.72170, Longitude: -84.24670; across the road from Fellowship Baptist Church), Rachel and Newton C. Ward monumental inscription, personally photographed, 19 Jul 2009. ↩
  4. “Georgia Deaths, 1919-98,” database entry for Rachel L. Ward (16 Feb 1980). ↩
  5. 1910 U.S. census, Fannin County, Georgia population schedule, Stock Hill, enumeration district (ED) 28, sheet 9B, dwelling 63, family 63, Newton C.  and Rachael Ward; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 Dec 2008); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624, roll 182. ↩
  6. 1910 U.S. census, Fannin County, Georgia pop. sch., Stock Hill, ED 28, sheet 9B, dwell. 63, fam. 63, Newton C. Ward. ↩
  7. Early 1940′s mining crew at the Cohutta Talc Mine. Photograph, circa 1940; digital image, privately held by Tonia Kendrick . 2007. ↩
  8. Johnson Cemetery (Fannin County, Georgia), Rachel and Newton C. Ward marker. ↩
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We are the sum of all the people who have lived before us.

Meryl Streep, Faces of America

 genealogy, women's history month, Kendrick, Hemphill, Butler, Ward

These are the women who inform who I am today.  Some are ancestors.  Some are aunts or cousins or in-laws.  Some I knew in person. Some I know only through photos and stories and documents.  They are the foundation of my family history and I am the sum of all their lives.

This post was written for the 21st edition of Smile for the Camera:  Give Their Face A Place and for Women’s History Month.  To see all posts written for Women’s History Month, click here.

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I got away from genealogy a couple of weeks this month, spending my time on other pursuits (reading and scrapbooking, namely).

How did I do toward my goals?

  • Write 10 blog posts – completed 7
  • Abstract (or update previously-done abstractions, if necessary) 20 census pages and update the citations.  I haven’t located all these census pages yet, so some research will be in order.  Specifically work on the pages that include:  Robert West 1840, 1830, 1820, 1810, 1800;  Anna Mariah Cook 1840, 1830, 1820, 1810; Wyatt Lankford 1870, 1840, 1830, 1820, 1810; Morning Tabitha Bruer 1860, 1840, 1830, 1820; Abner Lankford – any (I just learned about him this week). – Oh, not good.  I couldn’t find any of the above census records and moreover, I only completed abstracting one that I did find – Frances (Rudd) Kendrick and Thomas Kendrick 1840.  I’ll probably get one more finished this afternoon.
  • Index 30 names on FamilySearch – batting zero here.
  • Scan 5 photos & process 5 headstone photos. Done and done.  Finally, something to check off.
  • Look for (online) source records to verify facts referenced in pp. 11-15 of Butler Ahnentafel report. – another zero.

Oh well.  A new month starts tomorrow, along with an opportunity to start fresh.  Check back on Tuesday for February’s to-do list.

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Photo taken at my grandparents’ house.  Fall 2008.

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I began blogging my genealogy to-dos last month and I’m pleased with the results.  Having the list out here for all to see keeps me accountable, plus I don’t feel like I’m tearing off in a hundred directions at once.  I can stay focused on what I want to accomplish this month and as I think of other things I want to do, I just jot them down in the draft for the next month’s post.

So, for January:

  • Write 10 blog posts
  • Abstract (or update previously-done abstractions, if necessary) 20 census pages and update the citations.  I haven’t located all these census pages yet, so some research will be in order.  Specifically work on the pages that include:  Robert West 1840, 1830, 1820, 1810, 1800;  Anna Mariah Cook 1840, 1830, 1820, 1810; Wyatt Lankford 1870, 1840, 1830, 1820, 1810; Morning Tabitha Bruer 1860, 1840, 1830, 1820; Abner Lankford – any (I just learned about him this week).
  • Index 30 names on FamilySearch
  • Scan 5 photos & process 5 headstone photos.
  • Look for (online) source records to verify facts referenced in pp. 11-15 of Butler Ahnentafel report.

That’s the plan.  I’ll report back with the results at the end of January.

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COGHolidayPart2Dear Genea-Santa,

I have three genealogy wishes and if you could help me with any of them, I would really appreciate it.  I promise to be a good genealogist – to make a list of all avenues of research and check it twice, to document my sources, and share my findings.

1.  Barbara Baxter, my great-great-grandmother.  Oh, Genea-Santa, please help me find something, some small clue, about her parents.  I learned their names earlier this year, but the trail stopped cold after that.

2.  The Hemphill Family Bible.  You know the one I mean; it was referenced in Hemphills of North Carolina and records the vital records of Thomas Hemphill and Mary Ann Mackie’s descendants, all the way down to my grandfather’s siblings.  I don’t want to own the bible.  I just want to know that it hasn’t been lost or destroyed.  If you do locate the bible and could prod the person who has it to donate it to a repository where it could be accessed by others, that would be icing on the cake.

3.  Family photos.  Any family photos.  I’m not picky.

That’s it, Genea-Santa.  There will be brownies on the mantle on Christmas Eve.  And don’t be afraid of Chocolate when you stop by.  She just wants to play with the reindeer.

Chocolate-W

Chocolate

This post was written for the 86th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy.  To see other posts I’ve written for the COG, click here.

 

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  • Interesting news. . .DearMYRTLE’s Genealogy Blog: DAR: Online databases now available http://ow.ly/DylA #
  • RT @footnote: Check out our new Native American Collection. Explore unique documents and share Native American heritage. http://bit.ly/sLNEk #
  • Ditto. RT @rjseaver: highlighted the 84th Carnival of Gen., and Jasia, our carnival goddess, in http://tinyurl.com/COG84th Thanks, Jasia! #
  • RT @23andMe: Blog Post- Introducing Relative Finder: The Newest Feature from 23andMe: Get ready — there’s a whole new http://bit.ly/3ckxTR #
  • Abstracted 1900 census records for James Evan Butler household. #genealogy #surnames #
  • Found and abstracted 1900 census record for Martha A. MCENTIRE 1833 – ?. She was a spinster and farmed her own land. http://ow.ly/EaEU #
  • Found and abstracted 1900 census records for Thomas & Mattie Hemphill household.  Another cousin John Butler was a boarder #
  • Uploaded 1900 census images for Ball Ground, Murray Co, GA, pp 6B and 7A. Butler, McEntire, Hemphill #surnames. http://ow.ly/Emxz #
  • Had a good #genealogy day! #
  • Scanned photo of great-aunt Annie Kate (Hemphill) Bryan, taken when they lived in Florida during WWII. http://ow.ly/EAFa #
  • I’m in. RT @baysideresearch: I’m in! RT @SqueakyChu: For 2010, take the 1010 Reading Challenge. http://bit.ly/1jqy0e #LibraryThing #
  • Uploaded headstone for Nina Melissa GREENLEE 1907 – 2004. She was a sergeant in WWII. http://ow.ly/EAH6 #
  • Uploaded headstone photo for Joseph George HEMPHILL 1850 – 1864. http://ow.ly/EAJd #genealogy #surnames #
  • Uploaded headstone photo for Columbus P. HEMPHILL 1857 – 1864. http://ow.ly/EALc #genealogy #surnames #
  • Uploaded 1900 census image for Doolittle District, Murray, GA. Whitener, Patterson #surnames http://ow.ly/EAMW #genealogy #
  • Reading: relatively curious about genealogy: Finding Family Stories in Online Digitized Books http://ow.ly/EG86 #
  • Found death certificate for Edward Austin ROBERTS 1861 – 1930 http://ow.ly/Fn42 #genealogy #surnames #
  • Finally registered to do Family Search indexing! #
  • Coincidence? Working on first FS indexing batch. First item is a death cert. The attending Dr. boarded with my g-g-g-grandfather in 1900. #
  • Finished my first indexing batch. Easy and fun! #
  • Trying out Roots Magic. I may be in love. #
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