There are six months unaccounted for in my father’s letters. No letter rejoicing in finding a church at last or hashing out the details. I began to wonder what happened during that time. Did my grandmother lose those letters? Did my parents stay in Los Angeles? Did they return to Detroit? What was happening in … Continue reading The Missing Months – March to November, 1945
Page two of the New Year Eve letter my father wrote home in 1944. This part deals with a cinema class he was taking. I will have to post his theory, which he explained in a previous letter home, soon. Everything is O.K….(pursues its petty pace from day to day etc.) Last week one of … Continue reading Hi folks: (HAPPY NEW YEAR) Part 2
Jacob Cleage was one year old in 1851 when he was sold, along with his mother and five sisters, to David Cleage, slave holder in Athens, Tennessee. When freedom came in 1866 he was 15 years old. He next appears in Knoxville, 58 miles from Athens, when he married Miss Fannie Wilson at the residence … Continue reading J – JACOB Cleage
After writing about the deaths of Harjo Jackson’s children, I decided to look through the newspaper reports to see if there was any more on Harjo. I didn’t find anything, but I did start to notice the other causes of death as I went through the weekly reports in the Montgomery Advertiser. Today I am … Continue reading I – INTERMENTS
Lot to unpack here… my mind snagged on 75 people in 8 “cabins” Opps, I miscounted the first time, there were 48 people in eight cabins with four young girls, ages 12, 13 and 19 being rented out so that they weren’t living in the cabins. By 1860 David Cleage had real estate worth $20,000 … Continue reading E – EIGHT cabins
Clara Hoskins was my 2 X great grandmother and first appeared to me in a family tree my paternal grandmother Pearl Reed Cleage wrote for me. Clara was born in Kentucky about 1825. In 1870 she lived in Lebanon, Kentucky with her husband James Green, ten year old Benjamin Green and five year old granddaughter … Continue reading Clara Hoskins Green – My 2X Great Grandmother
Homer Jarrett230 Alleghany St. City 2700 Kenwood AveMarch 8, 1904 Homer;Your letter was handed me at supper and don’t you know, that I was rather glad to hear from you. I did not answer your letter before, because I thought you were tired of hearing such “silly” “little” letters. You have managed nicely to keep … Continue reading Playing the Guitar and the Piano in 1904
For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is … Continue reading U – United Presbyterian Congregation Celebrates
For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is … Continue reading T – The Twenty-Third of April
For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is … Continue reading J – Jones Tabernacle hosts Music Festival
