Family History and Genealogy
This is part of an occasional series in which I process information from a book called Marriage and Death Notices from Extant Asheville, N. C. Newspapers 1840-1870 An Index. I consulted this book last year at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. I have lots of people from in and around Asheville, […]
This is part of an occasional series in which I process information from a book called Marriage and Death Notices from Extant Asheville, N. C. Newspapers 1840-1870 An Index. I consulted this book last year at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. I have lots of people from in and around Asheville, so […]
I‘ve been working through a book I found at the Family History Library called Marriage and Death Notices from Extant Asheville, N. C. Newspapers 1840-1870 An Index, going through page by page and analyzing the information found. Today, I reviewed several pages, which included Alexander, Brooksher, Burgin, Cunningham, Davidson, Deboard, Hemphill, and Lytle (there were more names, but these […]
My Ellis family line starts with Rosa Evelyn, my 2nd great-grandmother. She was born 28 March 1853 in Murray County, Georgia, where she lived almost her whole life. She married Martin LaFayette Roberts on 27 January 1872, in Murray County. They had eight children in 18 years. She died on 25 March 1936, in Murray […]
Last week, I wrote about a book I found at the Family History Library called Marriage and Death Notices from Extant Asheville, N. C. Newspapers 1840-1870 An Index. I took photos of 24 pages with surnames of interest to me. I’m going through page by page and analyzing the information found. Page 1 includes Alexanders.1 […]
When I was at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in March, I found a book called Marriage and Death Notices from Extant Asheville, N. C. Newspapers 1840-1870 An Index. It is “an alphabetical index, by surnames, to 432 marriages and 1,181 death notices appearing in extant copies of” seven different newspapers, published […]
Births Ora I. (Shields) Kendrick was born in 1881 in Georgia. Deaths John Burgin died in 1884 in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
Births Naomi (Beamer) Roberts was born in 1853 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Alfred O. Flowers was born in 1909. Deaths Henry Washington Woolf, Sr. died in 1889 in Hopkins County, Texas. Marriages Walter Ellis and Mary Parker were married in 1776 (my 5th great-grandparents).
Deaths James Tucker died in 1797 in Surry County, North Carolina (my 6th great-grandfather). Benjamin Brookshire died in 1854 in Asheville, North Carolina. John Taylor Butler died in 1988 in Chatsworth, Georgia.
Births Rosannah (Hemphill) Young was born in 1777 in Old Fort, North Carolina. William Osborn Searcy was born in 1833 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Eleanor Kelly Whiteside was born in 1833 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Mary R. Hemphill was born in 1852.
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