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.

1. Bryant Brooks
2. John Jeremiah Brooks (my g-g grandfather)
3. Joseph Brooks
4. Nancy Brooks
5. Ransom Brooks
6. Benjamin Brooks
7. Sarah Brooks
8. Cinderella Brooks
9. Elizabeth Brooks
10. Arzilla Brooks

Joseph and Catherine had seven children:

1. George Brooks
2. Elizabeth Brooks
3. Abner Andrew Brooks
4. William Chager Brooks
5. James Brooks
6. Joseph Brooks
7. Thepolus Henry Brooks

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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.

1. George Cowan Jessee
2. Nancy C. “Nannie” Jessee (my great grandmother)
3. Thomas Jefferson “Big Jeff” Jessee
4. Noah D. Kernan Jessee
5. John Henry Jessee

George Cowan married Virginia Breeding in May of 1880 and they had ten children:

1. Maude E. Jessee
2. Allen J. Jessee
3. Newton R. Jessee
4. George Jessee
5. Charles Coonie Jessee
6. Cass Jessee
7. Sallie Morgan Jessee
8. Martha Jessee
9. Thomas Jessee
10. Elijah B. Pard Jessee

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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.

1. Alfarie LaForce
2. Thomas Ulysses LaForce (married Barbara Sutherland)
3. Simeon LaForce
4. Elijah LaForce
5. Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” LaForce
6. William S. LaForce
7. Arthur C. LaForce
8. Bessie LaForce
9. John Letcher LaForce, Jr.
10. Ada LaForce
11. Robert LaForce
12. Manilla LaForce

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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.

1. William Floyd Sutherland
2. Jasper Sutherland
3. Newton Sutherland
4. Elijah 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. Leander Sutherland
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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) .

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

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.

1. Carrie Nella Kiser
2. Elijah Vallid Kiser
3. James Artrip Kiser
4. Mary Jane Kiser
5. Archibald Jackson Kiser
6. Houston J. Kiser
7. Philip W. Kiser
8. Fred Maynard Kiser
9. Elihu Debusk Kiser
10. Delphia Mae Kiser

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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.

1. Ellen Hazel Brooks
2. Gurtrude Marie Brooks
3. Philis Kathaline Brooks
4. Francis Gaynell Brooks
5. Barbara Ann Brooks
6. Jerry Elmer Brooks (g-grandson of John Jeremiah Brooks and Elizabeth Betty Hill)
7. William Grady Brooks
8. Charles Eugene Brooks
9. Leonard Carl Brooks
10. Kenneth Ray Brooks
11. Marvin Estel Brooks
12. James Ted Brooks
13. Fred Allen Brooks
14. Richard Ellis Brooks
15. Roger Dale Brooks
16. Robert Curtis Brooks

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.

152 Years Ago Today
January 27, 1857

Julia A. Mitchell married James Moore in McMinn County, TN. Julia was one of four known children born to Clarinda Julia Dougherty and William Mitchell of Tazewell County, VA.

1. Julia A. Mitchell (my 1st cousin, 4 times removed)
2. Sallie H. Mitchell
3. James Harvey Mitchell
4. Amanda Mitchell

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99 Years Ago Today
January 27, 1910
My 3rd cousin, once removed, James Thomas Davidson, was born to William Erastus and Bertie Lee (Ward)Davidson. He was one of 3 known children:

1. James Thomas Davidson
2. Erastus Granger Davidson
3. William Glenn Davidson

The name Erastus Granger was repeated often in the Davidson family. My great grandfather was named Erastus Granger, but was the son of Samuel P. Davidson. Samuel P’s brother was also named Erastus Granger Davidson, the great grandfather of EGD above. Are you confused yet?

This name repetition makes genealogy research somewhat difficult, but remains a wonderful way to honor a beloved family member. According to Wikipedia, namesake was first recorded in 1646 to mean “person named for the sake of someone”, the reference to something being a namesake imports a connection between the two that extends beyond sharing similarly looking names.

89 Years Ago Today
January 26, 1920
Carroll Lee Jessee, my 2nd cousin, once removed, was born in Russell County, VA to Ora Stanford Jessee and Martha Alice Viers. He was one of 7 children:

1. Floyd Jefferson Jessee
2. Ralph Stanford Jessee
3. Irene Madeline Jessee
4. Carroll Lee Jessee
5. Arthur Dance “Jimmy” Jessee
6. Tommy Allen Jessee
7. Donald Trigg “Foozy” Jessee

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74 Years Ago Today
January 26, 1935
Happy Birthday to Jack Garrett, my 3rd cousin.

157 Years Ago

January 25, 1852 – January 13, 1924

My great grandfather, Erastus Granger Davidson, was born to Samuel P. Davidson and Visa Allen. He married Eliza Greever Gregory. See my post of January 20th for a picture of Granger and and my great grandmother and a list of their children.

90 Years Ago Today
January 23, 1919
Myrtle is shown on her father’s lap in this picture. (courtesy of Shirley Fields)

171 Years Ago Today
January 23, 1838
My 3rd great grand uncle, Giles Dougherty, married Mary Doak in Tazewell County, VA. Giles was born in Rockbridge County, VA. He was one of nine children born to John and Hannah (Letcher) Dougherty.

1. John L. Dougherty
2. William Houston Dougherty
3. Clarinda Julia Dougherty
4. Giles Dougherty
5. James Thompson Dougherty
6. Julia Ann “Julian” Dougherty
7. Mary Ester Dougherty
8. Mary Hannah Dougherty
9. Sallie Houston

Giles and Mary “Polly” Doak had 10 children:

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