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Building Blocks: Adopted Heirlooms

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Dedicated to the memory of my ancestors. Wednesday, June 22, 2011. There are three heirlooms in my home that did not come down through family channels, but are treasured keepsakes nonetheless. They were given to us by church members while we were living in Smiley. Not too long ago I was poking around the Elgin Antique Mall and stumbled across a lamp that is in original condition. It turns out this stove dates to the early 1900s. In the October 5, 1905, edition of the Earlington, Kentucky, Bee.

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Building Blocks: April 2012

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Dedicated to the memory of my ancestors. Thursday, April 26, 2012. Remembering our Southern Veterans. Apologies to my Frankum/Lentz kinfolk who may see parts of this post appear in the upcoming Reunion newsletter.). In fact, as I was mulling over whether or not I wanted to join, I was challenged by one of the local historians to explain why I would want to become a member. I knew the answer immediately, even though I had not really tried to put it into words. Their older brother Lee is buried next to Mar...

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Building Blocks: November 2010

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Dedicated to the memory of my ancestors. Thursday, November 25, 2010. Heirloom of the Week. But I could not bring myself to dispose of it. I'm a real sucker for hanging on to the items that give me a tangible link to my ancestors. So not long ago I hauled it back into the house and decided to use it to store other pieces of family history that are in my custody. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Visit My Other Blogs. Central Texas, United States. View my complete profile.

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Building Blocks: Heirlooms of the Week - The Bibles

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Dedicated to the memory of my ancestors. Monday, July 4, 2011. Heirlooms of the Week - The Bibles. The two Bibles in the next photo were once used by my Hodge grandparents (the black one on the left) and my great aunt Fay Hodge Branton (the blue one on the right). The small Bible on the right, the cover spotted with some kind of decay, belonged to my great-grandmother Cora Mobley Hodge, Mary Caroline's youngest daughter. The Bible is a good book that's even better when it's the worse for wear.".

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Building Blocks: August 2009

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Dedicated to the memory of my ancestors. Monday, August 10, 2009. All of us descendants of Horace and Lucy Hodge confess to having warped senses of humor. Outsiders frequently don't "get" us. Those of us on the inside, however, are fluent in the Hodge brand of humor and even go so far as to brag about being different and misunderstood. So who do we blame for this oddness we all inherited? Was it the Hodge line or the Mobley line or the Mason line or the McAfee line? Rule number 3 - the defense rule - is ...

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Building Blocks: July 2010

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Dedicated to the memory of my ancestors. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. I had an unexpected opportunity to re-educate a co-worker the other day when she remarked how "boring" genealogy was. Why did I want to do it? All those names and dates! Just not interesting at all. Let's take my Mason line, for instance. I have about come to the conclusion that there is a black cloud that hovers over that family. Just yesterday I uncovered another story in a long ago newspaper that helps prove my theory. Hulda's widower ...

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Building Blocks: Frankum Family Portrait 1991

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Dedicated to the memory of my ancestors. Sunday, July 10, 2011. Frankum Family Portrait 1991. At one point I purchased a full sized scanner that was fairly lightweight and lugged it along to family gatherings. That required lugging along my laptop and setting the whole mess up somewhere out of the way and missing the opportunity to visit because I was off in a corner slowly scanning the day away. And, a full size scanner was out of the question for airplane trips. I was floored when the program produced ...

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Building Blocks: January 2010

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Dedicated to the memory of my ancestors. Friday, January 1, 2010. Heritage Photos of the Week. The following photo was taken about 1917 on the front steps of the home of Tilman and Matilda (Dunavan) Wilcoxen in the area of Pierce, in Wharton County, Texas. Tilman and Matilda, my great-grandparents, are sitting in the center and are flanked by all their children. Shortly afterward, a descendant of my grandfather's brother Orten made contact with me and had a few photos to share, including the one above.