tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43926228781333348432024-02-19T04:32:54.967-08:00Denise's Life in the Past LaneA place where I share my genealogical travels and discoveries with family and friends.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.comBlogger472125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-29345873477377718942013-10-02T17:00:00.000-07:002013-10-02T17:00:06.009-07:00Wordless Wednesday - Harold Rudolph Spurlock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Harold Rudolph Spurlock</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1928-1982</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>(my half-first cousin, once removed)</b></span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-35576736758720545612013-09-25T05:00:00.000-07:002013-09-25T05:00:01.573-07:00Wordless Wednesday - Virginia Faye Spurlock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Virginia Faye Spurlock</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1936 - 2001</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>(my half-first cousin, once removed)</b></span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-18321702690611751942013-09-21T16:01:00.000-07:002013-09-21T16:01:04.277-07:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - How Many Children/Grandchildren in Your Birth Surname Line?Randy Seaver of <a href="http://geneamusings.com/">GeneaMusings.com</a> has provided this exercise
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<li><i>Consider your Birth Surname families - the ones from your
father back through his father all the way back to the first of that surname in
your family group sheets or genealogy database.
List the father's name, and lifespan years.</i></li>
<li><i>Use your paper charts or genealogy software program to
create a Descendants chart (dropline or graphical) that provide the children
and their children (i.e., up to the grandchildren of each father in the surname
list).</i></li>
<li><i>Count how many children they had (with all spouses), and the
children of those children in your records and/or database. Add those numbers to the list. See my example below! [Note: Do not count the spouses of the
children]</i></li>
<li><i>What does this list of children and grandchildren tell you
about these persons in your birth surname line?
Does this task indicate areas that you need to do more research to fill
out families and find potential cousins?</i></li>
<li><i>Tell us about it in your own blog post, or in a comment to
this post, or in a comment on Facebook or Google+.</i></li>
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Here's my Spurlock line!<br /><div class="MsoNormal">
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<b>Ransom Spurlock (1807-1896) had 10 children and 62
grandchildren</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<li>Three children had no offspring</li>
<li>One child had 19 children</li>
<li>Remaining six children had an average of just over seven
children each</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John F. Spurlock (1850-1945)</td></tr>
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<b>John Fedrick Spurlock (1850-1945) had 19 children and 63
grandchildren</b></div>
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<li>Two children did not live to adulthood</li>
<li>Remaining children averaged 3.7 children each</li>
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<b>Jasper Jackson Spurlock, Sr. (1876-1940) had 4 children and
7 grandchildren</b></div>
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<li>One son had no children</li>
<li>Other three children had an average of 2.3 children</li>
<li>Other two sons had only daughters</li>
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<b>Jasper Jackson Spurlock, Jr. (1912-1978) had 3 daughters and
7 grandchildren</b></div>
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<li>Three daughters had an average of 2.3 children</li>
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With the exception of my great-grandfather John F. Spurlock, family size seems to be about average for the time periods in which each man lived.</div>
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I have researched my Spurlock lines fairly well. Several of Ransom's children died before their children reached adulthood; widows remarried and information is scarce on a couple of the families. I continue to conduct descendancy research on a fairly regular basis, picking up bits and pieces of information about the collateral families.</div>
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My father had only daughters, so my own Spurlock line has "daughtered out" with no male children to carry the surname forward.</div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-37872197777006315832013-09-18T05:00:00.000-07:002013-09-18T05:00:12.867-07:00Wordless Wednesday - Edward Harold Crawley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Edward Harold Crawley</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1908 - 2004</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>(my first cousin, once removed)</b></span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-61188490229213592252013-09-14T13:32:00.002-07:002013-09-14T13:32:46.445-07:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Semi-Random Research<div class="MsoNormal">
Randy Seaver, of Geneamusings.com, has provided the
following mission for this week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li><i><span style="color: blue;">We're going to do a little bit of Semi-Random Research
tonight...what is your first name? [This is the easy part!]</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: blue;">Go to your family tree database of choice (you know, like
RootsMagic, Reunion, Ancestry Member Tree), and determine who the first person
in your alphabetical name index is with a surname starting with the first two
letters of your first name (e.g., my first name is RAndall, so I'm looking for
the first person with a surname starting with RA). [If there are no surnames with those first
two letters, take the surname after that letter combination.]</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: blue;">What do you know about this person based on your research? It's OK to do more if you need to - in fact,
it's encouraged!</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: blue;">How are you related to this person, and why is s/he in your
family tree?</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: blue;">Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment to
this blog post, or in a Facebook Status post or Google+ Stream post.</span></i></li>
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This semi-random research mission has provided me with source citations for information in my genealogy database. Here's how I got them!</div>
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<li>My given name is Denise.</li>
<li>The first person in my database with a surname beginning
with “De” is John Richard Dean, born on 29 May 1865 in Arkansas, and died 5
March 1956 in Polk County, Missouri. I am not related to this individual; according
to my database, he was the husband of my 2<sup>nd</sup> cousin 4 times removed
Mary Isabella Hammontree.</li>
<li>Since there are no sources listed for any of the information
about John Richard Dean or Mary Isabella Hammontree, it’s clear that I entered
this information as a “newbie genealogist” before I realized the need for
accurate source citations.</li>
<li>I did find a photograph of John and Mary’s grave marker on
Findagrave which includes full dates of birth and death for each of them.</li>
<li>I did not locate a record to verify their marriage on 26
November 1886 in Greene County, Missouri. However, I did find a census record
for John R. Dean in the 1900 census with his wife Belle and four children. The
birth information for John and Belle is consistent with the information on the
tombstones; the enumerator noted that they had been married 14 years which is
consistent for an 1886 marriage.</li>
<li>My genealogy database now includes the source citations for
the information found! Yay!</li>
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<br /><br />© 2013 Denise Spurlock<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-8403291577312935782013-09-11T05:00:00.000-07:002013-09-11T05:00:15.765-07:00Wordless Wednesday - Jewell Florance Spurlock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Jewell Florance Spurlock</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1915-1997</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>(my grandfather's half-sister)</b></span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-27498915562852139022013-09-04T05:00:00.000-07:002013-09-04T05:00:03.285-07:00Wordless Wednesday - Gus Hobson Spurlock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gus Hobson Spurlock</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1899-1968</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>(my grandfather's half-brother)</b></span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-49053417000429069482013-08-11T08:58:00.000-07:002013-08-11T08:58:12.608-07:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Spin the Ancestor Roulette Wheel!<div class="MsoNormal">
Yesterday Randy Seaver of <a href="http://geneamusings.com/">Geneamusings.com</a> posted an “Ahnentafel
Roulette” challenge for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun; the mission this week:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<ol><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJjazcl5EiKG9B2W-Q-cUFniSyxhw44NTJbNy8OBP7W0NaK1TXWVg-r9ogJvN5iWvGcStsUfvFwP3gW-wrxGKi2gVR8T95UdAIn0uhnHwiLgWkC40RINl6v5olAmo3jOmfMrLDWv1DvE/s1600/American_roulette_wheel_layout.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJjazcl5EiKG9B2W-Q-cUFniSyxhw44NTJbNy8OBP7W0NaK1TXWVg-r9ogJvN5iWvGcStsUfvFwP3gW-wrxGKi2gVR8T95UdAIn0uhnHwiLgWkC40RINl6v5olAmo3jOmfMrLDWv1DvE/s200/American_roulette_wheel_layout.gif" width="200" /></a>
<li><i><span style="color: blue;">What year was one of your great-grandmothers born? Divide this number by 125 (use a calculator!) and round the number off to a whole number. This is your "roulette
number."</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: blue;">Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy
software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name
list (some people call it an "ahnentafel" - your software will create
this - use the "Ahnentafel List" option, or similar). Who is that
person, and what are his/her vital information?</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: blue;">Tell us three to five facts about that person in your
ancestral name list with the "roulette number."</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: blue;"><o:p>W</o:p>rite about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a
Facebook status or a Google Stream post, or as a comment on this blog post.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: blue;">NOTE: If you do not
have a person's name for your "roulette number" then "spin"
the wheel again - pick another great-grandmother, a grandfather, a parent, a
favorite aunt or cousin, yourself, or even your children!</span></i></li>
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I love playing Ahnentafel Roulette, so even though I’m a day
late, here’s my submission:<o:p></o:p></div>
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My paternal great-grandmother Sarah Belle Forshee was born
in 1856. Her birth year divided by 125 is 14.848, rounded up to 15.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On my pedigree chart, #15 is my maternal great-grandmother
Ruth Franklin.</div>
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<li>Ruth Franklin was born 12 March 1851 in Ohio, probably Union
County, the eldest child of Joseph Franklin and Rhoda Cary, and died 28 August
1914, in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas. She married David A. Snider on 5
January 1871 in Union County, Ohio.</li>
<li>Ruth had eleven children—nine sons and two daughters. Her
eldest daughter, Myrtle Arminta Snider, was my grandmother.</li>
<li>Ruth and David moved from Ohio to Kansas in 1880. They were
enumerated in the census in Leesburg Township, Union County, Ohio, on 17 June
1880, but their fifth child Byron Lee was born in November 1880 in Kansas.</li>
<li>Ruth was the great-granddaughter of Luther Cary, a soldier
in the Revolutionary War; it is through this line that I joined the National
Society Daughters of the American Revolution.</li>
<li>Ruth (Franklin) Snider shared her mitochondrial DNA with her
daughter Myrtle (Snider) Yawman (my grandmother), her granddaughter Beaulah (Yawman)
Sherrell Spurlock (my mother), and me and my sisters, Deanna and Jennifer. I
had only a son, but her mitochondrial DNA continues down to the daughters and
granddaughters of Deanna and Jennifer.</li>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-57395196044517519742013-07-31T05:00:00.000-07:002013-07-31T05:00:08.965-07:00Wordless Wednesday - W. T. Spurlock and Lewis Butler<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Digital image. Original photograph held by Cheryl Chaney Beaver, [ADDRESS<br />WITHHELD FOR PRIVACY], Lone Grove, Oklahoma, 2011.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>From Mamie Olive (Martindale) Spurlock's Scrapbook,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>her oldest son,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>William Taft Spurlock (1908-1974)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>with his stepson Lewis Butler (1937-2012)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>c1942</b></span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-51114396573483115402013-07-27T16:59:00.000-07:002013-07-27T16:59:15.906-07:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – A 100 Word Genealogy Challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Randy Seaver of <a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/">GeneaMusings </a>has come up with another great
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<li><i>This SNGF is based on the 100 Word Challenge
(http://100wc.net/) that school children are participating in around the
world. They are given a word or phrase
to write a story about in one hundred words.</i></li>
<li><i>Write a short 100 word story using the phrase ",,,the
most interesting ancestor I have..." in 100 words. [Hint:
If you write it in a word processor, you can use Tools > Word Count
(or similar) to count words]</i></li>
<li><i>Share the story with all of us by writing your own blog
post, writing a comment on this blog post, or put it in a Google Plus Stream or
Facebook Status or Note. Please leave a
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For this exercise, I am going to choose Rhoda (Cary) Franklin as my most interesting ancestor. One of my maternal 2nd great-grandmothers, she was the daughter of Ephraim and Matilda (Gandy) Cary. She was born probably 9 January 1833 in Union County, Ohio. At the age of 16, she married Joseph Franklin. Rhoda and Joseph had five children who lived to adulthood. Rhoda was institutionalized in 1870 for what was described as “melancholia from the death of a child.” She was released two years later. I have never been able to find a death date or burial location for her.<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-30555768470081378702013-07-24T05:00:00.000-07:002013-07-24T05:00:09.898-07:00Wordless Wednesday - Abie<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Digital image. Original photograph held by Cheryl Chaney Beaver, [ADDRESS<br />WITHHELD FOR PRIVACY], Lone Grove, Oklahoma, 2011.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>From Mamie Olive (Martindale) Spurlock's Scrapbook:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>her middle son, my uncle,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arthur Bryant Spurlock (1911-1951)</b></span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-2879378837042349472013-07-20T17:31:00.000-07:002013-07-20T17:31:08.295-07:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - The Rivers of my Ohio Ancestors<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i>1) I posted <a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/07/the-rivers-of-america-map.html">The"Rivers of America" Map</a> yesterday, and demonstrated how to find the
downstream course of a river in the United States, or the upstream watershed
area of a river. Please refer to that
blog post.</i><o:p><i> </i></o:p><i>2) This week, your
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun mission is to make a map using the National Atlas
map (at http://nationalatlas.gov/streamer/Streamer/streamer.html) showing the
downstream course of a river that one of your ancestors may have traveled
on. What does it tell you? What did you learn? Did they live at other places on that river,
or downstream of that river?<br /> </i><o:p><i> </i></o:p><i>3) Tell us about it
in a blog post of your own (please show us the map you created - use an image
snipping tool or take a screen shot), or make a comment here on this post, or
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Some of my maternal ancestors—the Gandy, Cary, Franklin, and
Snider families—settled along Bokes Creek in Union County, Ohio. Here is the
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-10420449849362235852013-07-17T05:00:00.000-07:002013-07-17T05:00:03.507-07:00Wordless Wednesday - Maude Alberti (Martindale) Thompson and Children<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Digital image. Original photograph held by Cheryl Beaver Chaney, [ADDRESS<br />WITHHELD FOR PRIVACY], Lone Grove, Oklahoma, 2011.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>From Mamie Olive (Martindale) Spurlock's Scrapbook,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>her older sister and her children,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Maude Alberti (Martindale) Thompson, Walter Ivan,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Edwin Albert, Verna Mildred, and Maymie Kathleen</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>circa 1910</b></span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-13064184030253203702013-07-15T05:00:00.000-07:002013-07-15T05:00:01.281-07:00Amanuensis Monday - 1880 Deed - M.D.L. Spurlock to S.V. Harrell - Claiborne Parish, Louisiana<em>On his </em><a href="http://transylvaniandutch.blogspot.com/"><em>TransylvanianDutch blog</em></a><em>, John Newmark defines an amanuensis as “a person employed to write out what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.” For more information about this daily blogging prompt, see John’s post </em><a href="http://transylvaniandutch.blogspot.com/2010/05/amanuensis-why.html"><em>Amanuensis – Why?</em></a><em>.</em><br />
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<em>I have amassed quite a collection of scans of handwritten documents related to my ancestors—primarily marriage records, deeds, and wills. As I have been transcribing these documents, it occurred to me that most of these documents were not actually written by my ancestors, but rather dictated to someone else, and then transcribed by a clerk into official records.</em><br />
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M.D.L. (Marcus D. Lafayette) Spurlock was the oldest son of Ransom and Ellender (Vickers) Spurlock to survive the Civil War. From the records it appears he was a party to numerous land transactions in the years following the war. In this deed, he sells 80 acres to <u>Miss</u> S. V. Harrell. There were several Harrell families in the 1880 census in Bienville and Claiborne parishes, but I have not been able to identify this particular Harrell woman.</div>
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Here is my transcription as well as an image of the deed as it appears in the Claiborne Parish record books:</div>
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<b>August 12, 1880. Know all men by these
presents that I, M.D.L. Spurlock, of the parish and state aforesaid in and for
consideration of the sum of <u>three</u> hundred dollars have this the 12 day
of August bargained, sold, transfered and delivered and do by these presents
bargain, sell, transfer and deliver to Miss S. V. Harrell a certain piece of
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<b>Before me, the undersigned authority came
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, Conveyance
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-29683198103305316852013-07-13T13:14:00.001-07:002013-07-13T13:14:43.486-07:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – The Date My Father Was Born<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Randy Seaver
of </span><a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">GeneaMusings</a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> has issued the
following </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">mission for this week:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">1) What day of the week was your Father born?
Tell us how you found out.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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happened in recorded history on your Father's birth date (day and month)? Tell
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found out, and list five of them.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">My father,
Jasper Jackson Spurlock, Jr., was born on 12 March 1912 in Jacksonville,
Cherokee County, Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He
was born on a Tuesday. To find out, I used the Genealogy & History Research
Assistant app that I have on my phone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">To
answer the next question, I googled “March 12 in history” and selected the
second result which took me to HistoryOrb.com. The site listed 182 historical
events. After perusing the list, I selected the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">1959 – The U.S. Congress approves Hawaii statehood<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">1894 – In Vicksburg, Mississippi, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for
the first time<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
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for colonists<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">1755 – First steam engine in America installed to pump water from
a mine<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">1664 – First naturalization act in American colonies</span></blockquote>
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same site listed 284 famous birthdays on March 12 including the following
individuals who were born in the same year as</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">my father</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1912</span> - James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">1912 - Kylie
Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">1912 - Paul Weston,
Springfield Mass, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour)<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">1912 - Irving
Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To round out
the list of birthdays, I would include the Girl Scouts who were founded on
March 12, 1912. Because they shared the same “birthday,” Daddy always thought
he should be named an honorary Girl Scout!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Source: “This
Day in History for 12<sup>th</sup> March,” HistoryOrb.com (<a href="http://www.historyorb.com/day/march/12"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.historyorb.com/day/march/12</span></a>
: accessed 13 July 2013)]</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-35898866494519927582013-07-10T05:00:00.000-07:002013-07-10T05:00:04.562-07:00Wordless Wednesday - A. B. Martindale's Sons<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhGmyOqt217TNwH2jMZrRVphNwhAepX18hyphenhyphenhdV7JUXd65Vgb1D65AXMWL3kq5r_wsRAeomdrWXvWWa47T80mp1U2VSxW7PjrZ270svt2P8NjUqkN5D74kJQscVUBAzQGSvm4Ctcns9vEA/s1419/RE+-+AB+-+WI+Martindale.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhGmyOqt217TNwH2jMZrRVphNwhAepX18hyphenhyphenhdV7JUXd65Vgb1D65AXMWL3kq5r_wsRAeomdrWXvWWa47T80mp1U2VSxW7PjrZ270svt2P8NjUqkN5D74kJQscVUBAzQGSvm4Ctcns9vEA/s640/RE+-+AB+-+WI+Martindale.JPG" width="392" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Digital image. Original photograph held by Cheryl Chaney Beaver, [ADDRESS<br />
WITHHELD FOR PRIVACY], Lone Grove, Oklahoma, 2011.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>From Mamie Olive (Martindale) Spurlock's Scrapbook,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>her three brothers:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Robert Ellis Martindale (1875-1946)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arthur Bryant Martindale (1887-1961)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Walter Ivan Martindale (1883-1958)</b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-9259243670272473602013-07-08T05:00:00.000-07:002013-07-08T05:45:44.656-07:00Amanuensis Monday - Marriage Documents for Isaac Eaton and Phoebe Hall - 1768<em>On his </em><a href="http://transylvaniandutch.blogspot.com/"><em>TransylvanianDutch blog</em></a><em>, John Newmark defines an amanuensis as “a person employed to write out what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.” For more information about this daily blogging prompt, see John’s post </em><a href="http://transylvaniandutch.blogspot.com/2010/05/amanuensis-why.html"><em>Amanuensis – Why?</em></a><em>.</em><br />
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<em>I have amassed quite a collection of scans of handwritten documents related to my ancestors—primarily marriage records, deeds, and wills. As I have been transcribing these documents, it occurred to me that most of these documents were not actually written by my ancestors, but rather dictated to someone else, and then transcribed by a clerk into official records.</em><br />
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Last week I posted the <a href="http://pastlane.blogspot.com/2013/07/amanuensis-monday-samuel-hall-rowan.html">will of Samuel Hall</a>, my 6th great-grandfather. That document provided me with the given name of his wife and the names of two sons. </div>
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This week I am sharing the consent that Samuel signed to permit his daughter Pheobe Hall to marry Isaac Eaton, along with the marriage bond. These documents, now 245 years old, were probably at least 200 years old when they were microfilmed.</div>
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<b> “Mr.
John Froobek liveing in North Carolina in Roan County<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>I send these few lines to you to Seartify[?]
you that I am satisfied that the be[?] hear of Isaac Eaton shall have my dater
[daughter] faby [Phoebe] hall to wed [three smeared words] and if you will [smear] grant him lisens [license] for the
same you will oblige me Samuel hall<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> Deted
Novenber [sic] 27, 1768”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Source: North Carolina, Rowan County, Marriage
records, consent of Samuel Hall,<br /> Isaac Eaton-Faby (Phoebe) Hall, 27 Nov 1768;
<br />digital images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (www.familysearch.org : accessed 2011
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<b>“Isaac Eaton }<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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to }<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Pheoby Hall }<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>dated 27<sup>th</sup> Nov. 1768<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Seald & deliverd } Isaac Eaton<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>in the Presence of } Wm M<sup>c</sup>Connell<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>John Frobock
George Gray.”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">Source: North Carolina, Rowan
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">bond, Isaac Eaton, 27 Nov 1768; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">digital images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (www.familysearch.org:
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-28448448902483925662013-07-03T05:00:00.000-07:002013-07-03T05:00:05.485-07:00Wordless Wednesday - House at Williamsville<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Digital image. Original held by Cheryl Chaney Beaver, [ADDRESS WITHHELD<br />FOR PRIVACY], Lone Grove, Oklahoma, 2011.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>From Mamie Olive (Martindale) Spurlock's Scrapbook,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>labeled "House at Williamsville"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A. B. Martindale and his family lived at Williamsvillle, Missouri, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>in the late 1880s to the early 1890s.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I am not sure when this photograph was taken.</b></span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-76037287816291836522013-07-01T05:00:00.000-07:002013-07-01T05:00:07.712-07:00Amanuensis Monday - Samuel Hall, Rowan County, NC - Will 1793<em>On his </em><a href="http://transylvaniandutch.blogspot.com/"><em>TransylvanianDutch blog</em></a><em>, John Newmark defines an amanuensis as “a person employed to write out what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.” For more information about this daily blogging prompt, see John’s post </em><a href="http://transylvaniandutch.blogspot.com/2010/05/amanuensis-why.html"><em>Amanuensis – Why?</em></a><em>.</em><br />
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<em>I have amassed quite a collection of scans of handwritten documents related to my ancestors—primarily marriage records, deeds, and wills. As I have been transcribing these documents, it occurred to me that most of these documents were not actually written by my ancestors, but rather dictated to someone else, and then transcribed by a clerk into official records.</em><br />
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Samuel Hall, my paternal 6th great-grandfather, wrote his will on 20 February 1793 in Rowan County, North Carolina. In it, he names his wife Elizabeth and two sons, Abraham and George. He names no daughters although he had at least one, my 5th great grandmother, Phoebe Hall, who married Isaac Eaton.<br />
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I found two provisions in his will especially interesting. The first was that he itemized how much Indian corn, wheat and pork was to be provided each year for his widow Elizabeth. The second was that son Abraham was to receive a cash bequest, either in hard money or trade, and with interest from the date of his death until paid.<br />
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Here is my transcription followed by digital images of the will as it appears in the Rowan County records.<br />
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<b>“In the name of God Amen! The 20<u><sup>th</sup></u>
Day of February AD 1793. I Samuel Hall of Rowan County & State of N
Carolina, farmer. being very frail in body but of perfect mind & memory
thanks be given to God; therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body
& knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make & ordain
this my last will & test. that is to say principally & first of all I
give & recom[m]end my soul to God, & my body to the earth to be buried
in a christian like & decent manner, at the discretion of my executors, not
doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the
mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it had
pleased God to bless me in this life. I give devise & dispose of the same
in the manner & form following.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>First I will that all legal demands against
my estate be paid of[f] as soon as conveniently it can be done.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Item I give & bequeath unto Elizabeth
my dearly beloved wife all my household furniture, together with two cows &
one horse creature, & four head of sheep, these to be fed or supported on
the plantation at the expence of my beloved son George Hall, who is also to
furnish her the said Elizabeth Hall with a comfortable dwelling house, &
furnish or provide for her annually twenty five bushels of Indian corn, ten
bushels of wheat, & one hundred & fifty pounds of good pork during her
widowhood.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Item I also give & bequeath unto my
dearly beloved son Abraham Hall the just & full sum of thirty pounds hard
money N. Carolina currency, the said sum be paid either in money, or trade at
hard money rates, the same to carry interest from the day of my decease, until
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<b>Item. I also give & bequeath unto my
beloved son George Hall all my lands & tenements, the same to be to him,
his heirs & assigns for ever. I also, make, constitute, ordain &
appoint my beloved sons Abraham Hall, & George Hall the only executors of
this my last will & test: And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke &
disannull all & every other former test: wills, legacies, bequeaths &
executors by me in any way before this time named, willed, bequeathet, ratifying
& confirming this & no other to be my last will & test. In witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & year above
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<b>the said test: as his last will & test Samuel X
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<b>in the presence of us. mark<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Isaac Eaton jun.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Jese Willcockson.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>John Alexander.”<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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[<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Source: </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">North
Carolina, Rowan County Wills, 1789-1807, 3:127, Samuel Hall; digital images, </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">FamilySearch</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (www.familysearch.org
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-45228581651552458302013-06-29T16:32:00.000-07:002013-06-29T16:32:23.379-07:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Create A GravestoneRandy Seaver, of <a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/">GeneaMusings</a>, presented the following challenge for today's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun:<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: purple;">Your mission this week, should you decide to accept it, is
to:</span></b></i><o:p><i><b><span style="color: purple;"> </span></b></i></o:p></blockquote>
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<i><b><span style="color: purple;">1) Create your own
gravestone at http://www.tombstonebuilder.com/.
And/or create one for a relative who doesn't have one, or one for an
event or significant issue.</span></b></i><o:p><i><b><span style="color: purple;"> </span></b></i></o:p></blockquote>
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<i><b><span style="color: purple;">2) Share your
creation with the genea-sphere in your own blog post, on Facebook or on
Google+. Be sure to drop a link in a
comment to this post.</span></b></i></blockquote>
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<i><b><span style="color: purple;">There are several other Gravestone generators online - see:</span></b></i><o:p><i><b><span style="color: purple;"> </span></b></i></o:p></blockquote>
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<li><i><b><span style="color: purple;">John Chandler's Tombstone Generator (http://www.jjchandler.com/tombstone/)</span></b></i> </li>
<li><i><b><span style="color: purple;">Gravestone Caption
Generator (http://www.getgreatcodes.com/generators/grave-generator.php/)</span></b></i> </li>
<li><i><b><span style="color: purple;">Gravestone
Generator (http://www.satisfaction.com/gravestone/)</span></b></i></li>
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I chose to use the third Gravestone Generator because it seemed to have the most design options.<br />
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Since lately I have had difficulty being focused in my genealogy research, I thought the following gravestone might be appropriate!<br />
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-24070443021364650082013-06-24T05:00:00.000-07:002013-06-24T05:00:12.122-07:00Military Monday - Never Paid, Bounty Due<div class="MsoNormal">
Last week I wrote about Henry Sloas, the husband of my 3<sup>rd</sup>
great-grandaunt Mary Burton, who was judged to be <a href="http://pastlane.blogspot.com/2013/06/military-monday-henry-sloas-disloyal.html">a “disloyal citizen”</a> by a
military commission in Kentucky during the Civil War. Mary (Burton) Sloas saw not
only her husband arrested and sent to a Union prison camp, but her eldest son,
Franklin, as well!<o:p></o:p></div>
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As shown on the record card below, Franklin enlisted in
Captain Field’s Partisan Rangers in Carter County, Kentucky, on 5 January 1863.
On the muster roll from which this card was prepared, he was marked absent, captured
by the enemy on 9 May 1863, having never been paid and with an enlistment
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This second card records that he appeared on a list of
prisoners of war, having been arrested at Louisa, Kentucky, on 8 May 1863, and received
at Camp Chase on 16 May 1863. He is described as being 17 years old, 5 feet 7
inches tall, with grey eyes, light hair and a fair complexion. He died at Camp
Chase on 3 July 1863. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[Source: Compiled service record, Franklin Sloas; Civil War; NARA Publication M319, Compiled Military Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky; digital images, Fold3 (www.fold3.com : accessed 23 Jun 2013).]</span></div>
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© 2013 Denise SpurlockAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521713742642286287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392622878133334843.post-89255240926245635582013-06-17T05:00:00.000-07:002013-06-23T11:01:13.040-07:00Military Monday – Henry Sloas, a Disloyal Citizen<div class="MsoNormal">
While
conducting research on the siblings of my 2<sup>nd</sup> great-grandfather
James H. Burton (1822-1905), I found FindAGrave Memorial #5714647 for Henry
Sloas, the husband of Mary Burton, my 2<sup>nd</sup> great-grandaunt. According to the memorial,
Henry died of typhoid fever on 28 October 1863 while imprisoned at Camp Chase
in Ohio and is buried in an unmarked grave at Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery
in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio.</div>
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The
memorial gave some information about an incident during the Civil War in which Henry was
believed to have been involved. Click <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5714647">here</a>
to read the account.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Based on what I could find about the Henry Sloas who served in the 48<sup>th</sup>
Virginia Infantry, I believe that was a different man. However, after some digging around in the Confederate
records on Fold3, I found the following document on a hearing before a
military commission in Louisa, Kentucky, which resulted in Henry Sloas being sent to Camp Chase just a few short months before his death.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Louisa Easter[n] Ky.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Recd. C. C. May 16<u><sup>th</sup></u>
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<b>John C. Porter, on oath states that he
arrested Sloas, because I considered him a disloyal citizen and because I
believe he had his large gun out and buskwhacked [sic] Gen. G W. Morgan cvl.[?]
last fall. I know him to be a very strong rebel. He frequently harbored the
rebels, and was reported to be in the habit of carrying information to them. I
heard him say at a log rolling, that the first Union men that came about his
house, he be damned if he wouldn't make one less of them. When I asked him, the
other day, for his gun, he said he had not had it for a month, but when I
raised my gun and cocked it he showed me wher [sic] it was. It was further
reported that he was one of the men who dug the hole to put Huff and others who
<s>had</s> were murdered last winter.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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this this [sic] was a war for negro equality, and that if any party was right
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<b>The commission Recommend him to be sent to
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<b>Capt. John Dalzell A Brown Jr Let. Col. and<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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witness and affirms that he prove by the miners' own mother[?] that he has
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Case of Henry Sloas; Unfiled Papers and Slips Belonging in Confederate Compiled Service Records; <br />
National Archives Records Administration, Publication M347; <br />
digital images, Fold3.com (www.fold3.com : accessed 16 Jun 2013).</td></tr>
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