160 Years Ago Today
February 2, 1849 – February 29, 1932
Elijah Thurman “Lige” Sutherland was one of 14 children born to William Sutherland and Sylvia Counts. See post on February 1st for a list of his siblings. Lige married Nancy Dyer February 17, 1870.
160 Years Ago Today
February 2, 1849 – July 2, 1922
Charles William Dougherty was one of 10 children born to Giles Dougherty from Rockbridge County, VA and Mary Polly Doak. Charles and his siblings were my 1st cousins, 4 times removed:
Charles married Mary Elizabeth Sawtell and they had 7 children:
124 Years Ago Today
February 2, 1885
Ora Lee Neel (Nash), my 2nd cousin, twice removed was one of six children born to Matthias Fox Neel and Harriet Letcher Daugherty in Clear Fork, VA.
Ora Lee and her husband, Thomas Edward Nash had 4 children:
377 Years Ago
February 1, 1632 – February 21, 1680
Henry Jessee, my 8th great grandfather, was born in North Molton, Dovenshire, England. His parents were Richard Jessee and Elizabeth. Henry married Grace Edgley and had at least one son, John Jessee.
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202 Years Ago
February 1807
Martha Kiser, my 1st cousin, 5 times removed was one of at least four children born to Abednego Kiser and Mary Polly Jessee in Russell County, VA.
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164 Years Ago Today
February 1, 1845 – June 18, 1936
Jasper Sutherland was one of fourteen children born to William Sutherland and Sylvia Counts. Jasper and his siblings are my 1st cousins, three times removed.
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149 Years Ago Today
February 1, 1860 – March 4, 1944
Hannah J. Davis was one of fifteen children born to Thomas Jefferson Davis and Sarah Ann Combs. My great grandaunts and uncles were:
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137 Years Ago
February 1, 1872
Ida Selfe was one of eleven children born to Wilson VErmillion Selfe and Elizabeth Kiser, my 2nd cousins, twice removed:
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112 Years Ago
February 1897
Barbara G. Jessee was one of at least five born to George Cowan and Dorothy Jessee. Barbara and her siblings were my 1st cousins, twice removed:
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91 Years Ago Today
February 1, 1918
Virginia Madge Campbell was one of nine 1st cousins, once removed, born to John Harrison Campbell and Sarah Ellen Davis:
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87 Years Ago
February 1, 1922
Rausie Artrip and William Kinder “Jackie” Kiser were married. Jackie was one of ten children born to William L. Kiser and Elizabeth Sutherland:
174 Years Ago
February, 1835
James W. Dougherty was born in Pike, MO; one of 10 children of Giles Dougherty and Mary Polly Doak. James and his siblings were my 1st cousins, 4 times removed.
138 Years Ago
February 1871
David Preston Peery married Mary E. Harman. David was one of seven children born to John Drew Peery and Mary Clay Gregory. He and his siblings are my 1st cousins, three times removed:
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112 Years Ago
February 1897
Lillie E. Lowder was one of five children born to James Isaac Lowder and Louisa Victoria Gregory. Lillie and her siblings were my 2nd cousins, twice removed.
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63 Years Ago Today
February 1, 1946
Charles Nye Buckland married Clara Jane Rash. My uncle was the son of Larkin Watson Buckland, SR and Mary Jane Davidson. Charles and Clara had four children:
Today, January 31st, Aunt Kathleen celebrated her 90th birthday with a party given by her children in Lebanon. My mother Lucille (87 shown below with Kathleen) and my brother attended and enjoyed meeting family and friends. Lucille is the daughter of Altha R. Brooks (Davis), half sister of Kathleen. Time seems to have a way of going on forever with this family and many others of this era. My grandmother Altha died in 1980 at the age of 96, and her baby sister is celebrating her 90th in 2009. What a span of time!
January 28, 1919 – Lora Kathleen Brooks (Dye) was the youngest of eight children born to Wm M. “Bill” Brooks and Orpha Narcissus Jessee in Russell County, VA.
William Brooks’ first wife Mary Polly Sutherland, died at 33 – six days after the birth of their sixth child. Kathleen’s half siblings are:
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126 Years Ago Today
January 31, 1883
Elijah Beauregard Sutherland married Winnie Kiser. He was one of ten children born to Elijah Sutherland and Mary Polly Childers.
Winnie was the youngest of 12 children born to James S. “Bell Clapper” Kiser and Susan Sutherland.
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148 Years Ago Today
January 31, 1861
Martha Artrip, my 2nd cousin, three times removed, married Johnson Rasnick. Martha was one of ten children born to Wm. Artrip and Mary Sutherland.
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84 Years Ago Today
January 31, 1925
Clyde Edison Jessee married Mona Edith Davis in Bristol, TN. Clyde was one of five children born to William Albert Jessee and Bertha S. Buchanan.
164 Years Ago Today
January 30, 1845 – December 1927
James Laforce, Jr. was born to James Laforce, Sr. and Dicie Kiser in Russell County, VA. James was one of thirteen children.
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112 Years Ago Today
January 30, 1897 – December 12, 1983
Esther Lobelia Brooks was one of seven children born to Joseph B. Brooks and Alverda “Verta” Kiser in Russell County, VA. Esther married Ben Hill.
131 Years Ago Today
January 30, 1878 – February 10, 1951
Annie Ardelia Hawley (Tabor) was born to James Hawley and Martha Ann Tabor. Annie, my 2nd cousin, twice removed, married James Brittan Tabor and they had at least one child, Mingle Lafayette Tabor. They are both buried at the Tabor Cemetery, Mudfork VA.
73 Years Ago Today
January 29, 1936
James Walter Lawrence, my 1st cousin, was born to James Walter and Bertha Ward (Buckland ) Lawrence. Jimmy here with some cousins, l-r front Eddie, Larry, Jimmy l-r back Charlie, Cecil, Ellis
176 Years Ago Today
January 29, 1833
My 2nd great granduncle, Joseph Brooks married Catherine Christmus. Joseph was one of ten children born to Constantanople Brooks of North Carolina and Rutha Daily.
Joseph and Catherine had seven children:
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157 Years Ago Today
January 29, 1852 – May 4, 1926
George was one of five children born to Stanford Lea and Sarah “Sallie” (Fuller) Jessee in Russell County, VA.
George Cowan married Virginia Breeding in May of 1880 and they had ten children:
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136 Years Ago Today
January 29, 1873
Thomas Ulysses LaForce, my 2nd cousin, twice removed, was one of twelve children born to John Letcher LaForce and Rebecca Sutherland.
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143 Years Ago Today
January 29, 1866
Jasper Sutherland married Lousia Dyer. Jasper was one of 14 children born to William Sutherland (brother to my g-g grandfather Daniel Sutherland) and Sylvia Counts.
99 Years Ago Today
January 29, 1910 – August 9, 1987
Perry Sherman Wallace, Sr. was one of nine children born in Russell County, VA to Morgan T. Wallace and Manerva Josephine Davis (my grandfather Asa’s sister) .
102 Years Ago Today
January 27, 1907
Houston J. Kiser married Olpha Wolfe. Houston, my 2nd cousin, twice removed was the sixth of ten children born to Lilburn Hendricks Kiser and Frances Sutherland.
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87 Years Ago Today
January 27, 1922 – February 14, 1992
Jerry Elmer Brooks, h/o Gladys ??, was born one of 16 children born to Henry Gracen Brooks and Myrtle Rose Minnick.
Benjamin and Haley Victoria (Thacker) Brooks
Benjamin was the s/o of John Jeremiah Brooks and the father of Henry Gracen Brooks. Led by his parents, the family moved from North Carolina to Copper Ridge in Russell County, VA, a very long and rugged travel during those days of the Civil War. Benjamin was born in 1864 and died in Wilder in February 13, 1938.
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