Click to Enlarge Daddy Bo, Granny and me around 1970 likely at The Smokies I recently found more really old family photos thanks to my 12-year-old self and my grandmother, Elizabeth Castellaw Williams. I actually got my first taste of
Hugh Jackman, Andrew Lytle and I in the Bahamas
Click to Enlarge l to r: Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman’s nanny, and me So my wife and I were at a water park in Atlantis at Nassau a few days ago with Hugh Jackman, the actor. OK, so we weren’t
Grave Hunting
Click to Enlarge l to r: Louisa Johnson, Bob Williams, Scott Williams, Charles Randall Johnson I recently wrote in this blog about my third great grandfather, Charles Randall Johnson. During the recent holiday week, my Dad and I decided to
Road Trip to Herbie Town
Click to Enlarge Herbie and Marie Adams with my father, Bob Williams Yesterday, my Dad and I headed to Crockett County near Alamo, TN to search for some graves of our Johnson ancestors. We found what what we were looking
Let’s Go to the Races…at Big Star
Click to Enlarge I hope newspapers survive. Not just the group of journalists, editors and photographers (and ad sales people) who gather and report the news in an official capacity, but the actual item…news presented via ink on paper. For
Lena Booth Marbury’s Friends List
Click to Enlarge Lena with Daughters l to r. Allie Marbury Brantley, Lena Booth Marburyand Mable Marbury Jackson I’ve been researching the Booth family and preparing to upload what information I have to my site and Christmas at my mother’s
Keeping Up with the Johnsons
Click to Enlarge The area of Crockett County, TN where Charles Randell Johnson andthen many of is children were born, farmed and died. Inset is an illustration of where many of them are buried.The upper right corner is the town
Davy Crockett, From Tennessee to Texas
Click to Enlarge Austin, Texas Courthouse I was in Austin, Texas this week and I couldn’t resist stopping to check out the historic Austin courthouse. Being so far from home, I didn’t expect to run into anyone I knew but,
Masters in my Southern Closet
Click to Enlarge Photo from Library of Congress Southern Slaves in 1862 I’ll just come right out and say it. Some of my ancestors owned slaves. For obvious reasons, the whole topic of the War of Northern Aggression (some people
Murder, Death Certificates and a Cemetery Mystery Solved
Click to Enlarge X marks the spot of the Williams Family Cemetery Since I first began researching my ancestry, I have been trying to find the graves of my second great grandparents, George D. Williams and Martha Jane Watridge. Now