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173 Years Ago Today
March 4, 1836
My great granduncle Franklin Clemons Gregory was one of fifteen children born to John Keatts and Elizabeth Hollard (Corder) Gregory in Pittsylvania County, VA. He and his wife, Shelma Statira V. Shawver are buried near Shawvers Mill in Clearfork, Tazewell County, VA. See previous month posts for siblings.
The picture is of an area very close to Clearfork called Burkes Garden. Imagine how beautiful and undeveloped this land was at the turn of the century when Franklin and Statira were raising their twelve children. (see March 1, post for children)
The Tazewell County Courthouse
ABC’s EXTREME MAKEOVER Home Edition visited our town and erected a home for a deserving American Hero family in six short days. Katie was part of the volunteer group that worked 24/7 to make this dream come true. Watch ABC on April 12th for this special 2 hour edition. Katie is shown here hugging another volunteer at the “oh so emotional” family reveal.
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Wanda said…
Awesome. I have never watched the show, but mom never misses it. I thought that was you hugging the other person. 🙂
154 Years Ago Today
March 3, 1855 – April 15, 1937
My 1st cousin, 3x removed, Martha Taylor (Sutherland) Colley was one of fourteen children born to William Sutherland and Sylvia Counts. See previous February posts for siblings. Martha married Decalb Colley in 1843.
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124 Years Ago Today
March 3, 1885 – December 4, 1968
Houston J. Kiser was one of ten 1st cousins, 3x removed, born to Lilburn Hendricks Kiser and Frances Sutherland. See post of February 10th for siblings. Houston married Olpha Wolfe on September 24, 1878.
Larkin Watson Buckland, Sr. and Mary Jane Davidson were married 100 years ago today. This wonderful picture of my father’s parents was taken 50 years ago at their 50th wedding anniversary party. A scan of the original marriage announcement from the newspaper is shown below. Grandmother Buckland kept a scrapbook of clippings, and this is one to treasure.
The picture below shows Grandmother and Grandaddy in the early days sitting on the porch of the old frame house. Looks like they were joking around a bit. Larkin’s mother, Sarah Jane (Tabor) Buckland is to the left. Aunt Bertha and, my dad, LW, Jr. were very young then. This photo was probably taken in the early 20’s.
The brick home below stands on the property where the old frame house stood. I understand that this home was built in the late 20’s. It is a beauty and currently owned and occupied by Mary Jane and Watt’s son, Robert Buckland and his wife Margaret.
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187 Years Ago Today
March 9, 1822 – March 5, 1915
My 2nd great granduncle, William Lowery Gregory was born in Pittsylvania County, VA and died in Madison County, TN. He is buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. William married Mary Jane Duncan in 1857 and they had ten children.
William Lowery Gregory was one of fifteen children born to John Keatts Gregory and Elizabeth Holland Corder. See previous, Jan 10th, for siblings.
Brothers Trigg and Ellis Jessee, my 1st cousins, 2x removed. The boys were a family of nine siblings to parents John Henry Jessee and Louvisa Powers. Photo courtesy of Kathy Haynes.
216 Years Ago Today
March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863
My 1st cousin, 6x removed
My 6th great grandfather, Robert Cunningham Houston, was Sam Houston’s grandfather.
Or in other words…
my grandmother, Mary Jane (Davidson) Buckland
d/o Eliza Greever Greever (Gregory) Davidson
d/o Mary Jane (Daugherty) Gregory
d/o John L. Daugherty
s/o Hannah (Letcher) Dougherty
d/o Mary Davidson (Houston) Dougherty
d/o Robert Cunningham Houston
General Samuel Houston, governor of two states, president of the Republic of Texas, U.S. senator, and military hero, was one of the most colorful figures of 19th-century America. Born near Lexington, Va., on Mar. 2, 1793, he was reared in Tennessee by his widowed mother. As a youth he spent much time with Cherokee Indians and developed close ties with them. Joining the army, he served under Andrew Jackson in the Creek wars (1813-14). In 1818, Houston resigned his commission and, after studying law for a few months, was elected attorney general for Nashville and appointed adjutant general of Tennessee. He served two terms in Congress (1823-27) and in 1827 was elected governor of Tennessee. While governor…
http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/shouston.htm
The General married his third wife Margaret Moffett Lea
on May 9, 1840 and they had eight children.
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138 Years Ago Today
March 2, 1871
My great grandparents were married in Mudfork, VA. Sarah Jane Tabor and Jacob Alexander Buckland.
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164 Years Ago
March 1, 1845
Elizabeth Sutherland was one of at least five children born to Henry Sutherland and Margaret Counts.
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Henry Hobson Smith married Sarah Davis
March 1, 1883 – 126 Years Ago Today
Henry Hobson Smith married Lydia Davis
March 1, 1889 – 120 Years Ago Today
Henry was my 1st cousin 3x removed, son of John Smith and Nancy “Big Nance” Sutherland. Were the Davis girls sisters? …and the first died, so he married her sister??? I don’t know. Do you?
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102 Years Ago Today
March 1, 1907 – August 31, 2002
Dallas Brooks Kiser was one of nine children born to Rufus Brooks and Lenora Kiser. Dallas married Bascom Kiser and dies in Dickenson County, VA.
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176 Years Ago
March 1833 – 1922
My 2nd great grandmother, Sarah Sallie (Fuller)Jessee, was born to Jessee B. Fuller Jr. and Mary Polly Banner in Russell County, VA. She married Stanford Lea Jessee and they had five children.
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117 Years Ago – Lilly M. Davis – March 1892
114 Years Ago – John Davis – March 1895
225 Years Ago Today
March 1, 1784 – April 5, 1829
Captain John Letcher, Jr., my 4th great granduncle, was one of nine children born to John Letcher and Mary Davidson Houston in Rockbridge County, VA.
John married Mary Pugh and I believe they parented at least four children:
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207 Years Ago Today
March 1, 1802
My 3rd great grandaunt, Maryan Polly Gregory, married William Payne. Maryan was one of nine children born to William Gregory and Martha Tucker.
The couple was from Pittsylvania County, VA and parented eight children:
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145 Years Ago Today
March 1, 1864
Margaret W. Daugherty was one of seven 1st cousins, 3x removed, born to David Allen Daugherty and Nancy “Nannie” L. Moore. See recent previous posts for siblings. Margaret was a great great granddaughter of James Moore from the Abbs Valley Massacre. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~varussel/indian/69.html
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133 Years Ago Today
March 1, 1876
George W. Gregory was one of twelve 1st cousins, 3x removed, born to Franklin Clemons Gregory and Shelma Statira V. Shawver in Tazewell County, VA.
The Railroader's Daughter 
