“Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life” Voltair Providence Methodist Church and Cemetery in Madison County, TN I just read on my blackberry that a
The Genie is Out of the Bottle
Click to Read My Facebook friend, Debbie Taylor Sterbinsky, who writes the genealogy column for the “Brownsville States Graphic” was nice enough to include my Haywood County Line blog in her recent “Genealogy Genie” column. Debbie, along with several other
25 Years Late for Clean Up Day at the Cobb Family Cemetery
Whenever I find photos of the ancestors I have been researching, it’s like a tiny window opens up and I get a glimpse of what they looked like during a period of time in the past. A distant family member
William Walton Stamps
William Walton Stamps Reverend Thomas Joyner (June 18, 1802 – October 7, 1882), my fourth great grand Uncle was the brother of my fourth great grandfather, Littleton Bunn Joyner. Although Reverend Joyner and his wife Elizabeth had a grandson, William
Don’t Drink the Toddy
Albert Bunn Joyner and Family Sometimes, when I have been researching a family for a while, I start to get a creepy feeling that all these people are in the room with me. The Joyner family was an interesting group
Cause of Death
Anyone who spends very much time looking at the past will very quickly notice just how many children and young adults died, especially in the 1800s. Looking at names and dates, it’s easy to wonder from what disease or sickness
Thomas Joyner is Tempting me to Visit Bere Regis, England
I’ve been researching my Joyner family for the last few weeks and am pretty close to being able to get them uploaded to my Web site. One ancestor in particular is making me want to change my plans from an
The Watridge Family on the Map
Today I finished uploading the information I have been able to locate so far on The Watridge family. The map from Haywood County in 1877 that hangs on the wall in our dining room (currently, behind the Christmas tree) was
Great Photo from the Texas Castellaws
The family of Jeremiah Fletcher and Mary Aurelia Blaydes Castellaw Back row: Lucy Albina “Bina” Castellaw Cobb and Albert “Al” Lafayette Cobb, Likely Arthur Fletcher Castellaw, Jack Castellaw, Thomas Jefferson “Tom” and Helen Moody Castellaw, Rosie Whitamose (girl the Castellaws
Preparing for the Pilgrams
So since this is Thanksgiving, it seems fitting to mention my ninth great grandfather, Joseph Cobb. He basically showed up in the new world, turned on the heat, got the turkey in the oven and greeted the Pilgrims when they