Showing posts with label Souther. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Souther. Show all posts
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Appalachian Values and Some People Who Exemplify Them (part 2)

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Continuing on author Loyal Jones’s list of Appalachian Values as given in his book by the same title (Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994), we foc...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Tracing the Souther Genertions ~ Those Who Remained Behind in North Carolina: Jesse Souther’s Will and His Children

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I ended last week’s article by promising a look at the will of Jesse Souther (1784-1858), whose children Joseph, John Jesse, Kizziah Souther...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Tracing the Souther Generations ~ Some Who Stayed Behind in NC

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I have written much in these pages about five siblings who came to Georgia in the 1830s and settled in Union County, Georgia, at least for a...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Tracing Some of the Jenkins Ancestors of the Late Hon. Edgar L. Jenkins

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A search through the 1834, 1840 and 1850 Union County, Georgia census records did not yield a single family with the last name of Jenkins. W...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

A Tribute to Congressman Edgar Lanier Jenkins

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Union County, Georgia can be justifiably proud of one of her native sons, Congressman Edgar Lanier Jenkins. He grew up in the county, was ...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Lard Pail Lunches and Shared Knowledge (or Life in a Country School ~ Part 1)

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Choestoe School in Union County, Georgia, 1936 through 1943 has a special place in my memory, in things I love, and in who I became in life....
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Kizziah Souther Humphries and Her Family (Part 2)

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Last week’s column began the story of Kizziah Souther Humphries and her husband John. This couple came to Union County to settle in the mid-...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Kizziah Souther Humphries and Her Family

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The name Kizziah given to my great, great aunt has fascinated me since I first heard it. Kizziah Souther was born at Old Fort, McDowell Coun...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Hix and Caroline Burgess Souther’s Second Child and His Family:Two Southers Joined—Jesse Wilburn and Mary Delia

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Last week we looked at “A Dream Deferred,” how Hix and Caroline Burgess Souther moved to Union County, Georgia from North Carolina about 184...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Keeping Christmas All Year Long

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To faithful readers everywhere, my wish for you is that the joy of Christmas may follow you throughout 2011. What may we do to renew the spi...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Saluting Major James Leon Davenport

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When James Leon Davenport, the first child of John Prescott Davenport (better known as Press) and Ethel Lee Souther Davenport was born on De...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Continuing the Saga of the Davis Siblings, Early Union Settlers

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At the outset I want to correct and clarify an error from last week’s column entitled “ Old Letters from Davis Kin Give Insights to Life in ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Old Letters From Davis Kin Give Insights to Life in Early Union County

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Communication now is so much more advanced from the days of dated letters from 1861 and 1871. Here is the background of this story. David Da...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Honoring an Ancestor--Bluford Elisha Dyer, Jr.

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The designation “Jr.” was not attached to Bluford Elisha Dyer’s name when he came into Union County, Georgia to settle in the early 1830’s. ...