Family History and Genealogy
On this date in 1844, Robert C. Burgin obtained a marriage bond in McDowell County, North Carolina. His intended bride was Henrietta Moore. Robert’s parents were Merritt Burgin and Mary Ann Patton. His grandparents were Benjamin Burgin and Leah Mann. Ben and Leah are my 6th great-grandparents, making Robert my first cousin six times removed. […]
Births Mary (Ellis) Boggs was born in 1786 in Greene County, Georgia. Sarah Malinda (Hemphill) Porter was born in 1833 in Burke County, North Carolina. John Whitfield Hemphill was born in 1848 in North Carolina. Deaths Zilphia (Moore) Patton died in 1920. Nancy A. Ellis died in 1928 in Gilmer County, Georgia. Marriages Maria Catharina […]
Births Joseph Alexander McEntire was born in 1803 in Burke County, North Carolina (my 3rd great-grandfather). Zilphia (Moore) Patton was born n 1835. Deaths Monteville Roberts died in 1895 in Whitfield County, Georgia (my 3rd great-grandfather). Marriages Martha Matilda Whiteside and Henry Washington Woolf, Sr. were married in 1840 in Calhoun County, Alabama. James Polk […]
Births George Heinrich Weidner was born in 1717 in Germany (my 6th great-grandfather). John Christian Albrecht was born in 1726 in Germany. Babel Moore was born in 1795 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Deaths Anna (Whitener) Wilkie died in 1880 in Catawba County, North Carolina. Marriages Mary Burk and Joseph (possibly James) Morphew were married […]
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 Eleanor Kelly Whiteside died in 1847 in Rabbit Town, Alabama. Thomas C. Morris died in 1880 in Bartow County, Georgia. Perry Oscar German died in 1917. James Polk Forrester died in 1919, […]
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 […]
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