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On this date. . .the 7th of September

Births

Carrie Etta (Mathis) Bates was born in 1898.

Deaths

Mary (Clark) Mackie died in 1852.
Josiah Whittington Whiteside died in 1888 in Oxford, Alabama.
Mary Jane (Hemphill) Morgan died . . . → : CONTINUE READING

On this date. . .the 24th of August

Births

Johans Philip Dellinger was born in 1706 in Oberacker, Baden-Wurttemberg (my 7th great-grandfather).
Sophia Louisa (Hemphill) Morgan was born in 1850.

Deaths

Elizabeth (Standards) Filmer died in 1650 on Mulberry Island, Virginia.
Henrietta (Sherrill) Moore died in 1843 in Hickory, North Carolina.
Eleanor Kelly Whiteside died in 1847 in Rabbit Town, Alabama.
James Alexander Hemphill died in 1936 in Murray County, Georgia . . . → : CONTINUE READING

On this date. . .the 6th of August

Births

Richard Bennett was born in 1609, in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.
Holly Debord was born in 1805, in North Carolina.
Mary Ann Eliza Whiteside was born in 1828, in Rutherford County, North Carolina.

Deaths

John Whitfield Hemphill died in 1915, in . . . → : CONTINUE READING

On this date. . .the 1st of August

Births

Annis L. (Stroud) Bailey was born in 1835.

Deaths

James Moore died in 1859.
John Adolphus Whiteside died in 1864.
Coy Johnson died in 1943.
James Henry Johnson died in 1974.
Newton Coleman Ward died in 1974 (my great-grandfather).

I’ve just realized that my great-grandmother’s brother (James Henry Johnson) and husband (Newt Ward) died on the same day.  How horrible.  This is one . . . → : CONTINUE READING

On this date. . .the 10th of July

Births

Merritt Burgin was born in 1784.
Susannah Adeline (Lytle) Burgin was born in 1825.
Stephen Bright Boggs was born in 1844.

Deaths

Martha Hemphill McEntire died in 1841.
Jonathan Leander Whiteside, Sr. died in 1863, while serving in the . . . → : CONTINUE READING

What’s New 7/22/2009

New People

Family of Mary Jane Whiteside
Family of Marcus de LaFayette Whiteside
2 wives of William Lamar Decatur Whiteside
2 wives of Jonathan Calhoun Whiteside (one is Amanda M. Hemphill – who is she?  Who are her parents?  Grandparents?)
Jane Caroline Dysart, daughter of James Young Dysart and Margaret Hemphill.  She married Benjamin Logan Burgin, who was Malinda Burgin’s first . . . → : CONTINUE READING

What’s New – 7/8/2009

Busy, busy.  Lot of new people and facts, photos and documents:

New People

Two wives of James Hardy Whiteside
Husband of Mary Jane Whiteside
Family of William M. Lankford
Family of Samuel Mackie
Parents of Captain Robert and Elizabeth Patton
Wife of James Lankford

New Photos

Greenlee-Hemphill Family
Captain Robert Patton’s Headstone
Mary (Polly) Hemphill’s Headstone
Josephine (Hemphill) Butler
“maybe” Ben Hemphill
Butler-Hemphill Family
Walter Patton Hemphill

New Facts for Existing People

Birth . . . → : CONTINUE READING

What’s New 6/24/09

I’ve mostly been working on Hemphills and Dellingers the last couple of weeks.  This post will focus on the new Hemphills that I’ve added.  I found a good descendent register of James Hemphill, which has many third- and fourth-generation descendents that I didn’t have, plus a few earlier generation people.

Agnes Harrill, wife of John Hemphill

Wife and . . . → : CONTINUE READING