Family History and Genealogy
My 3rd-great-grandparents, Coleman Forrester and Anna Carnes, appeared on the 1870 census in Fannin County, Georgia. I’m working backward through my 3rd-great-grandfather’s census records, as I attempt to verify the next generation back in this line. This is the second installment in this series. Census Abstract1: Colman Forister, age 52, male, white, Farmer, $800 real […]
James Polk Forrester, the second son of Coleman Forrester and Anna Carnes, was born 16 Aug 1844 in Georgia.1 I first encountered him in the census in 1900, where he appeared as James P. Foster, 55-years old and head of household. He lived in Fannin County, Georgia.2 His mother, Anie Foster, appeared three households away3and his […]
My third-great-grandparents appeared on the 1880 census in Fannin County, Georgia. The head of household was Coleman Forrester and I’m evaluating all his known census records, as I work on taking this line back another generation. Census Abstract1: Coleman Forester, age 62, head of HH, married, Farmer, literate, b. SC, father b. NC, mother b. […]
This article about my great-grandmother was published in the Autumn 1974 issue of Georgia Life magazine (now defunct). “An 83-year-old Chatsworth woman makes and sells about $1,000’s worth of quilts each year in a home enterprise that began about twelve years ago. At that time Mrs. N. C. Ward injured her back and her doctor […]
Births Anna Barbara (Dellinger) Meyer was born in 1668. Deaths Sigmund Kaltheisen died in 1734. James Cass Ellis died in 1905 in Fannin County, Georgia. Click on any link above to see more information about these individuals, including source citations. If you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email or RSS.
Nellie Ward was born on January 31, 1910, the oldest child of Newt Ward and Rachel Johnson. She probably was born in Fannin County, Georgia, as the family was enumerated there on both the 1910 and 1920 censuses. She married Alfred O. Flowers, who was born May 8, 1909 and died March 21, 1976. Nellie […]
Deaths Jane (Mallory) Quarles died in 1710 in King and Queen County, Virginia (currently believed to be my 7th great-grandmother). Benjamin Edward Forrester died in 1937 in Fannin County, Georgia. Marriages John Ingle and Joyce Stroud were married in 1827 in Burke County, North Carolina. Walter Washington Ellis and Sarah Phillips were married in 1835 […]
Births Robert M. Hannah was born in 1830. James Ezra Ellis was born in 1847 in Benton County, Alabama. Nellie (Ward) Flowers was born in 1910, probably in Fannin County, Georgia. Charlie Rube Johnson was born in 1917 in Cumming, Georgia. Deaths Leander R. L. Whitener died in 1915 in Catawba County, North Carolina. Andrew […]
Deaths James F. Debord died in 1881 in Ellijay, Georgia. Peter Garrett died in 1893 in Fannin County, Georgia. Wiley Columbus Ellis died in 1916 in Cedartown, Georgia. Marriages James Madison Ellis and Nancy A. Thurman were married in 1887 in Gilmer County, Georgia. Click on any link above to see more information about these […]
Births Thomas Young Greenlee was born in 1818. Thomas L. Hemphill was born in 1858. Deaths Daniel Whitener died in 1833 in Lincoln County, North Carolina (my 5th great-grandfather). William Adolphus Whitener died in 1947 in Gilmer County, Georgia. Marriages John H. Johnson and Nancy J. Scruggs were married in 1882 in Fannin County, Georgia. […]
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