159 Years Ago Today
February 5, 1850

Joseph Kiser was one of 12 children born to Henry and Mary Polly Kiser:

1. John Kiser
2. Margaret Kiser
3. Elizabeth Kiser
4. Christopher Kiser
5. Sylvia Lydia Kiser
6. Joseph Kiser
7. William Patton Kiser
8. Samuel J. Kiser
9. Mary Catherine Kiser
10. Henry Hamilton Kiser
11. Morgan Luke Kiser
12. Ephriam Kiser

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151 Years Ago Today
February 5, 1858
Dicy Kiser married Stephen Oscar Dotson. Dicy was one of twelve siblings, my 1st cousins, three times removed born to James S. “Bell Clapper Kiser and Susan Sutherland.

1. Dicy Kiser
2. Andrew Jackson Kiser
3. Francis “Frankie” Kiser
4. Elizabeth Kiser
5. Sereldia Jane Kiser
6. Margaret Kiser
7. Mary Kiser
8. Fullen Kiser
9. Jessee Sutherland Kiser
10. Phoebe Kiser
11. Allen Kiser
12. Winnie Kiser

This picture is of Dicy and Stephen with their family.

168 Years Ago Today
February 4, 1841 – March 7, 1934
Noah Baldwin Sutherland was one of 14 children born to James Sutherland and Nancy Ann Counts. He and his siblings (listed on post of Feb 3rd) were my 1st cousins, three times removed.

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204 Years Ago Today
February 4, 1805
Frances Kiser was born to Abednego Kiser and Mary Polly Jessee.

122 Years Ago Today
February 3, 1887
Nancy Maryland Sutherland, my 1 cousin, three times removed, married William Floyd Sutherland. Nancy was one of fourteen children born to James Sutherland and Nancy Ann Counts.

1. Noah Baldwin Sutherland
2. Ezekiel Sutherland
3. Margaret Sutherland
4. Daniel Boone Sutherland
5. Elizabeth Sutherland
6. John “Jack” Counts Sutherland
7. Orpha Sutherland
8. James H. Sutherland
9. Rebecca Sutherland
10. William Beauregard Sutherland
11. Richard “Dick” Sutherland
12. Nancy Maryland Sutherland
13. James E. “Little Jim” Sutherland
14. Phoebe Sutherland

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106 Years Ago Today
February 3, 1903 – August 15, 1984
Maynard Leonard Wallace was one of nine children born to Morgan T. Wallace and Manerva Josephine “Josie” Davis.

1. Charlie Wallace
2. Kyle Truman Wallace
3. Howard Wallace
4. Maynard Leonard Wallace (4th cousins, 2 removed)
5. Joe Everett Wallace
6. Emphis Wallace
7. Perry Sherman Wallace, Sr.
8. Katy Wallace
9. Major Howard Wallace

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114 Years Ago Today
February 3, 1895 – September 14, 1895
Burleigh Bhurman Jessee was born to William Albert Jessee and Bertha S. Buchanan. See his siblings, (1st cousins, once removed) on the December 19th post. Burleigh Bhurman died of the flu and is buried on the hill behind the Cleveland Baptist Church in Cleveland, Russell County, VA.

184 Years Ago Today
February 3, 1825

My 3rd great grandparents, Mary Polly Harman and Robert W. Davidson (b. about 1801) were married in Tazewell County, VA. Mary was the daughter of Hezekiah Harman and Mary Polly Brown.

Polly and Robert had at least 4 children:

1. Samuel Patton Davidson (my 2nd g-grandfather and father of Erastus Granger Davidson)
2. Erastus G. Davidson
3. Louisa Jane Davidson
4. John Preston Davidson

Robert was one of nine children born to Joseph Davidson and Matilda Amanda Patton.

1. Henry Preston Davidson
2. Robert W. Davidson
3. Martha “Matty” Davidson
4. Jane G. Davidson
5. Nancy Davidson
6. John H. Davidson
7. William G. Davidson
8. James Cartmill Davidson
9. Samuel Patton Davidson

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:

1. John M. Dougherty
2. James W. Dougherty
3. Walter M. Dougherty
4. Reace Dougherty
5. Mary Dougherty
6. E.I. Dougherty
7. Bolivar Dougherty
8. Andrew Jackson Dougherty
9. Isaac F. Dougherty
10. Charles William Dougherty (b Pike Co.,IL – d Molalla , Clackamas Co.,OR)

Charles married Mary Elizabeth Sawtell and they had 7 children:

1. Dennis Dougherty
2. William Henry Dougherty
3. Bessie Dougherty
4. Louis Dougherty
5. George Elmer Dougherty
6. Otis Ray Dougherty
7. Fred Giles Dougherty
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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.

1. Arlington Hicks Neel
2. Anna Lane Neel
3. Ora Lee Neel
4. Margaret Barnes Neel
5. Clara B. Neel
6. David Elgin Neel

Ora Lee and her husband, Thomas Edward Nash had 4 children:

1. Claude Witten Nash
2. Nancy Ernestine Nash
3. Anna May Nash
4. Thomas Edward Nash, Jr.

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.

1. Frances Kiser
2. Martha Kiser
3. Noah Kiser (born 200 years ago this month)
4. Elihu Kiser (born 198 years ago this month)

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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.

1. William Floyd Sutherland
2. Jasper Sutherland
3. Newton Sutherland
4. Elijah “Lige” Thurman Sutherland
5. Joshua P. Sutherland
6. Phoebe Sutherland
7. Martha Taylor Sutherland
8. Daniel Boone R. Sutherland
9. Mary Polly Deel Sutherland
10. Margaret Sutherland
11. Unknown Sutherland
12. George Washington Sutherland
13. Unknown Sutherland
14. Leander Sutherland

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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:

1. Jessee Davis
2. John Davis
3. Doctor Caleb Davis (my g-g-grandfather)
4. Charles Henry Davis
5. Elizabeth Ann Davis
6. Hannah J. Davis
7. Sarah Catharine Davis
8. Martha E. Davis
9. Thomas Jefferson Davis, Jr.
10. James A. Davis
11. Lucy B. Davis
12. Hugh C. Davis
13. Margaret Davis
14. Lydia Davis
15. Virginia Davis

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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:

1. Hettie Selfe
2. Greely Selfe
3. Ida Selfe
4. Francis Wayland Selfe
5. Walter Selfe
6. Nevada Selfe
7. Dora Selfe
8. Mattie Selfe
9. Roy Selfe
10. Carter Selfe
11. Arthur Selfe

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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:

1. William George Jessee
2. Joseph P. Jessee
3. Mary F. Jessee
4. Barbara G. Jessee
5. Margaret E. Jessee

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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:

1. Flora Lola Campbell
2. Ethlyn C. Campbell
3. Barclay Campbell
4. John Walter Campbell
5. Mary Gertrude Campbell
6. Baird Kermit Campbell
7. Virginia Madge Campbell
8. Charles Dudley Campbell
9. Zolene Nell Campbell

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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:

1. Walter Vermillion Kiser
2. William Kinder Kiser (my 2nd cousin, twice removed)
3. Frank Fitzhugh Kiser
4. John Trig Kiser
5. Elijah Otas Kiser
6. Marcus Henry Kiser
7. Douglas Daniel Kiser
8. Martha Dicie E. Kiser
9. Arnold Gaines Kiser
10. Ora Jackson Kiser

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.

1. John M. Dougherty (elected Lt. Governor to IL in 1868)
2. James W. Dougherty (m. 0-10-1866 Mary A. Hale)
3. Walter M. Dougherty
4. Reace Dougherty
5. Mary Dougherty
6. E.I. Dougherty
7. Bolivar Dougherty
8. Andrew Jackson Dougherty
9. Isaac F. Dougherty
10. Charles William Dougherty
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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:

1. David Preston Peery
2. Charles Henry Peery
3. George Peery
4. Ella Martelia Peery
5. Mary Elizabeth Peery
6. Lousia Alice Peery
7. Mollie Elizabeth Peery

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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.

1. Bertha Lowder
2. Dora B. Lowder
3. Charles Lee Lowder
4. Will B. Lowder
5. Lillie E. Lowder

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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:

1. Charles Allen
2. Linda Jane
3. Wanda Mae
4. Phyllis Ann

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.

1. Lula Brooks
2. Maude Brooks
3. Hobert Ezekiel Brooks
4. Effie Brooks
5. Audra Brooks
6. Clayton Brooks
7. William Vaughn Brooks
8. Lora Kathleen Brooks (my half grandaunt)

William Brooks’ first wife Mary Polly Sutherland, died at 33 – six days after the birth of their sixth child. Kathleen’s half siblings are:

1. Armalda Vernon “Malvie” Brooks
2. Emory Luther Brooks
3. Altha Rudolph Brooks (my grandmother)
4. Emily V. Brooks
5. Rose Belle Brooks
6. Duard Brooks

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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.

1. Elihu Sutherland
2. Martha Jane Taylor Sutherland
3. Elizabeth Sutherland
4. Rebecca Sutherland
5. Cynthia Sutherland
6. Phoebe Sutherland
7. Frances Sutherland
8. Elijah Beauregard Sutherland
9. Mary Sutherland
10. Noah Sutherland

Winnie was the youngest of 12 children born to James S. “Bell Clapper” Kiser and Susan Sutherland.

1. Dicy Kiser
2. Andrew Jackson Kiser
3. Francis Kiser
4. Elizabeth Kiser
5. Sereldia Jane Kiser
6. Margaret Kiser
7. Mary Kiser
8. Fullen Kiser
9. Jessee Sutherland Kiser
10. Phoebe Kiser
11. Allen Kiser
12. Winnie Kiser

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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.

1. Rachel Artrip
2. Harmon Artrip
3. Ellender Artrip
4. Elizabeth Artrip
5. Martha Artrip
6. Nancy Artrip
7. Mary J. Artrip
8. Samuel Artrip
9. Melvina Artrip
10. William Artrip

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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.

1. Claude Bryan Jessee
2. Burleigh Bhurman Jessee
3. Clyde Edison Jessee (grandson of my g-grandmother, Nancy Jessee Davis)
4. Woodrow Jessee
5. Maude L. Jessee

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.

1. Elijah LaForce
2. Lucinda LaForce
3. Bethany LaForce
4. Joseph LaForce
5. Mary P. LaForce
6. Margaret LaForce
7. Monsuer H. LaForce
8. James LaForce, Jr. (my 2nd cousin, 3 times removed)
9. William Warren LaForce
10. John LaForce
11. Rachel Matilda LaForce
12. Mahalia LaForce
13. Aaron LaForce

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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.

1. Etta Cordelia Brooks
2. Esther Lobelia Brooks (my 1st cousin, twice removed)
3. Lottie Azen Brooks
4. Bertha Elizabeth Brooks
5. Thomas Starling Brooks
6. Gay Nell Brooks
7. Ruby Matilda Brooks