Having gone down the rabbit hole that is ancestry.com over the last year I have accumulated a mountain of information about those that came before me. This is where all that information will be shared.
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Nannie Hendricks
16 October was the 150th birthday of my 2x great grandmother, Nancy Taylor Hatton Hendricks. Nancy was born in Crooked Creek (Rice Station) Estill County, Kentucky in 1875, daughter of Junie and Cynthia Hendricks Hatton. Junie was a farmer, born in Estill County. Cynthia’s only sister was named Nancy and she died at the age……
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October 9th
On this date in history my 3x great grandmother Phoebe Ann Moore was born in 1836. Phoebe was the only child of Andrew Moore and Margaret “Peggy” Jane Kleckner Moore. She was born in 1836 in Cumberland Ohio. Her obituary says her parents brought her to Western Illinois at an early age and she grew……
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The “Madman” of Cubbington, Gilmore Girls and the Battle of Long Island
My 11th great grandfather earned this moniker of “Madman” in Cubbington, England in the 1630s. Cubbington is a small village south of Birmingham on Welsh Road, an old sheep drovers’ route connecting London and Wales. Edward was the son of Thomas Greswold and Elizabeth Shuckburgh. He was christened 5 Aug 1594 in Tanworth-In-Arden, Warwickshire, England.……