Showing posts with label Lance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lance. Show all posts
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Continuing the Self Family Saga (Part 2)

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By way of review, last week’s introductory story on the Self early settlers to Union County told of three families with the surname Self tha...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Country Music Artist Don Byers Tapped for Atlanta Counrty Music Hall of Fame

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“Autumn leaves were falling Down in Adams Park We sat and watched the river ‘Til it was almost dark And there were children playing They nev...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Reece's Poem "Autumn Mood" Sets Tone for Fall

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Union County can be justifiably proud of her native son, Byron Herbert Reece, poet and novelist, born September 14, 1917 to Juan Wellborn Re...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Continuing the Legacy of Benjamin J. Ledford: Son Benjamin Mercer and Grandson Arthur Paul Ledford

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The Civil War brought hard times and “make do” situations even to families in remote Union County, Georgia. As we’ve already seen in the acc...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Two Byron Herbert Reece Poems (Reece Family Series, Part 6)

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Last week’s column gave a summary of the family of Juan Wellborn and Emma Lance Reece. Their son, Byron Herbert Reece (1917-1958) became the...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Reece Family in Union County, GA (part 5): The Family of Byron Herbert Reece, Poet and Novelist

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J uan Wellborn Reece and Hannah Emma Lou Lance Reece Family, about 1925. On Emma's lap is Emma Jean Reece (b. March 29, 1923). Standin...
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Reece Family in Union County, GA (part 4): Poet Byron Herbert Reece's Ancestors

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The aim of the Byron Herbert Reece Society is to perpetuate and make known the poetry and prose of Union County’s accomplished poet and nove...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Jarrett Turner Family in Union By 1834

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Examining the first census of Union County, Georgia is a source of fascination. The census was completed on March 24, 1834. At that time Uni...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Memorial Day and Thoughts on Freedom

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We have a valuable gift, one not wrapped and tied with ribbons. It is intrinsic to America and our constitutional way of life. The gift is c...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Poet Reece Painted Word Pictures of Spring

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One of poet Byron Herbert Reece's strongest advocates while he lived, wrote and published his poems and novels was the late Ralph McGill...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Merchants operating stores in Union Co. in 1881

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In last week's column we revisited the store of Mr. John Andrew Wimpey and his wife, Nellie Jane Duckworth Wimpey. I neglected to write ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

John Andrew Wimpey, farmer and merchant

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Many still living may remember going to the John and Nellie Wimpey store located on Highway 129 South in Blairsville across the street from ...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Choestoe man was outstanding educator The Career of Norman Vester Dyer

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Telling his father that he did not want to farm, but rather to teach, and that the mule he was given by his father would be sold and used fo...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Dr. Thomas Jackson Lance, President of Young Harris College, 1930-1942

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Dr. Thomas Jackson "Jack" Lance (31 Jan 1886 - 27 Jan 1880) President, Young Harris College, 1930-1942 Among great persons who hav...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Davenport Mountain named for early settler, John B. Davenport

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Travel on Georgia Highway 325 (Nottely Dam Road) until you are near the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. There you will find a Georgia historical ma...
Thursday, April 3, 2008

This Old House

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"Did you know that the old Hunter-England Cabin is being torn down?" So was the distressed call I received last week about the ol...