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Heritage #6918339
07/02/20 08:43 PM
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I’ve put this picture out of my family’s genealogy book in here before... and I figure now’s a good time to do it again... I was at this old cemetery to lower my 90 year old grandmother this past Tuesday ... felt like an earthquake with all my ancestors rolling over in their graves ....Given what it’s become

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... those of you in here that have deep roots... please share your story


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918362
07/02/20 09:03 PM
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I know my grandmother actually traced her family from coming over from England on the Mayflower. I thought that was pretty neat. Other than that, I don't know a whole lot other than they were mostly farmers with a few sheriff's thrown in. From Mass. they spread into New York state where, as far as I know, most of them stayed.


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918363
07/02/20 09:04 PM
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Very cool, I'd sure love to hear the stories that ol ranger could tell us.

I have been told that my great great grandfather and his first wife had 5 kids. When he passed of something fatal then but not all but forgotten, he loaded up an Indian woman (native I guess now) who had lost her husband and they made 5 more and that is why I couldn't grow a decent mustache until I was 50. This all took place up somewhere in the sandhills of Nebraska.


“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers


Re: Heritage [Re: Leftlane] #6918369
07/02/20 09:11 PM
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Coldspring Texas
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Originally Posted by Leftlane
Very cool, I'd sure love to hear the stories that ol ranger could tell us.

I have been told that my great great grandfather and his first wife had 5 kids. When he passed of something fatal then but not all but forgotten, he loaded up an Indian woman (native I guess now) who had lost her husband and they made 5 more and that is why I couldn't grow a decent mustache until I was 50. This all took place up somewhere in the sandhills of Nebraska.


.... a little patchy was it lol


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918371
07/02/20 09:12 PM
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Coldspring Texas
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Good story Yote... sounds like you have some pioneer stock


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918373
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Yeah, I entered one of those Mustache Bronc Ridings when I was 40. I couldn't grow a decent mustache of move my feet fast enough either one!


“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers


Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918375
07/02/20 09:14 PM
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My family came here to Boone County, Iowa in the 1840s from Ashe County, North Carolina. Almost all of us since that time are buried in the same cemetery. My family has had its share of moonshiners, horse thieves and (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) raisers over the years, but most have been simple, hard working folks. I'm proud to to claim them all.

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918376
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Any of you related to John Coffee Hayes.
First white man to fight off horseback( with a pistol)like an Indian.(copied the Commanche method of warfare off horseback,shooting from under the horses neck while galloping at full speed).

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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918382
07/02/20 09:17 PM
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Coldspring Texas
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.... Boco ... go make an igloo lol


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918389
07/02/20 09:24 PM
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my family (fathers side) started out in VA . Im not sure when. John Clifton was a corporal in the Continental Army. Some went to Mt Airy N.C. some years later and then a couple on to CO.


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918391
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My great grand dad was a sheriff's deputy in east central AR in the early 20th century. His job was overseeing the black inmates on the county farm. From what I understand my great grand dad was a rounder and would enjoy a drink or a card game with these same inmates and never had much trouble with them. He told my dad this story. " One time in the middle of the night he heard the inmates making a ruckus, so he slipped out of his shack and positioned himself where he could see the door of the inmate shack. Wasn't long he saw a head start poking out the door. Someone was about to run." He said, " One round from his revolver in the porch post not 2 foot from the fellers head ended that thought. He didn't hear another peep all night."


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918394
07/02/20 09:27 PM
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The only notable person in our ancestry that I'm aware of is a fella known as Mike Fink, King of the Keelboaters on the Ohio River. He was on my maternal grandmother's side of the family. He was my grandmother's great, great, great, etc grandfather's nephew. I guess he was quite a character. If I recall correctly, Disney made a movie about him and Davy Crocket having a keelboat race.



Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918410
07/02/20 09:38 PM
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My maternal grandmother's maiden name was Cody. We are related to William F. Cody's 1st cousin, Alvin Cody.
We took three of the eleven grandkiddos last July 4th to Cody to participate in the 100 year anniversary of the Cody Wyoming, sponsored by the Cody Family. We had a ball. Donna and I were up front, helping carry the family banner and the grandkids were on the hay wagon tossing candy to the crowd of 15,000.

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Oh, and they didn't hunt the buffalo to near extinction. Cattle disease was the culprit.

Blessings!
Mark

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918412
07/02/20 09:38 PM
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First, sorry for your loss. There arent any famous folks in my lineage, But im still on the same piece of dirt they saw in their time, however different it may be. The patriarch of my clan branched off from Northhampton, Halifax county NC area after Revolutionary war service and came to Johnston Co. and started breeding to get some help to tend the place

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918416
07/02/20 09:40 PM
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Sorry for your lose


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07/02/20 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by JOCO1995
... started breeding to get some help to tend the place


So your family was historically readers of Scripture, especially the part;
"Be fruitful and multiple, and fill the earth, and subdue it."

Re: Heritage [Re: ] #6918422
07/02/20 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by JOCO1995
First, sorry for your loss. There arent any famous folks in my lineage, But im still on the same piece of dirt they saw in their time, however different it may be. The patriarch of my clan branched off from Northhampton, Halifax county NC area after Revolutionary war service and came to Johnston Co. and started breeding to get some help to tend the place


.. not about famous brother... it’s about deep roots and the work our ancestors put in to making this country

... and you and yours definitely qualify... be proud


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918424
07/02/20 09:43 PM
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Found out last year that my mothers family came to the New York area in 1648.That may times great grandfather was a minister.From there over the next 200 plus years,they kept moving and ended up in the 1800s in Minnesota. my great,great,great grand mother died in 1919 and her obituary was the front page of the Minneapolis newspaper.
My fathers side of the family arrived in Nebraska in 1901.The next year they moved and started a farm in Sandstone Mn. Which is still in the family today.
Tom


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918425
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Yes sir, I have two really old Bibles from them with births and deaths back into the 1800s recorded within

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918428
07/02/20 09:46 PM
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Oh, and they didn't hunt the buffalo to near extinction. Cattle disease was the culprit.


Uh Oh. That is exactly my opinion also but I get lambasted every time I say it.


Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918439
07/02/20 09:55 PM
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My last comment was for June, and thanks for the kind words Savell, heritage is a word that means a lot to me as I make a lot of decisions based on what I think the ancestors before me would have done. I jumped on this thread like white on rice

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918453
07/02/20 10:02 PM
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I have family down there going back to the mid 1800s some of them live on one of the original homesteads registered with the historical society as being continuously owned and operated by the family as farm operation
Sorry for your loss RIP And I feel the earthquake every time I think of my ancestors. My moms dad wasn’t a ranger. He was a deputy sheriff in Lampasas. No doubt in my mind what his thoughts would be on current events.


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918457
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Great grandfather was a Choctaw . I believe great grandma was Choctaw and Cherokee . Visited them in Oklahoma when I was a kid about 45 yrs ago . Wish I knew more about them . Several family members including my dad , brother and sister belong to the Choctaw Nations . I suppose I should register . Maybe I'll follow the black lives matter and start an Indian lives matter movement and take back the land from the white man along the trail of tears ....cept I'm mostly white and not butt hurt so .....maybe not


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918460
07/02/20 10:06 PM
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My wife's 5th great uncle was Robert E. Lee....yep that Robert E. Lee. She and I were researching her maternal family at a local genealogy society. Her family, the Lee's, were one of the first pioneer families to settle the vast Okefenokee Swamp wilderness in SE Ga beginning in the late 1700s after the Revolutionary War. Her 5th great grandfather is buried in a backwoods cemetary near the Suwannee River on the west edge of the Swamp. He has a Revolutionary War headstone with his regiment listed on it. There was mixing of the Lees with local Native Americans (what was left of the Seminoles) and the wife's great grandmother looked like an old Indian woman.....dark red skin, long straight hair that one time touched the floor when she stood....no gray hair till she was in her late 70s. She died in her 90s. She was 12 when the Titanic sank.

My Mother's side of my family has a long pioneer history here in SE Ga. 4th great grandfather was in the Georgia militia that fought the last remaining Native Americans in this area pre-Civil War. My 2nd great grandmother told a story of watching Indians come up in their yard to draw water from their well during dry summers when she was a small child. She also told of remembering watching Confederate soldiers passing by their home, many wounded, headed back to Florida in the late 1860s. My mother still lives within 1/2 mile where my 2nd grandmother witnessed this. Its still a dirt road.

I had/have WW1, WW2, Vietnam, and Iraq War veterans in my family.

I could go on and on with family members involved in many things...some good...some not so good. But thats enough for now.

To the best of my knowledge, I was the first with a college degree and the only game warden in my family.

Last edited by Swamp Wolf; 07/02/20 10:11 PM. Reason: Spelling

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Re: Heritage [Re: Swamp Wolf] #6918474
07/02/20 10:13 PM
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Coldspring Texas
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Originally Posted by Swamp Wolf
My wife's 5th great uncle was Robert E. Lee....yep that Robert E. Lee. She and I were researching her maternal family at a local genealogy society. Her family, the Lee's, were one of the first pioneer families to settle the vast Okefenokee Swamp wilderness in SE Ga beginning in the late 1700s after the Revolutionary War. Her 5th great grandfather is buried in a backwoods cemetary near the Suwannee River on the west edge of the Swamp. He has a Revolutionary War headstone with his regiment listed on it. There was mixing of the Lees with local Native Americans (what was left of the Seminoles) and the wife's great grandmother looked like an old Indian woman.....dark red skin, long straight hair that one time touched the floor when she stood....no gray hair till she was in her late 70s. She died in her 90s. She was 12 when the Titatanic sank.

My Mother's side of my family has a long pioneer history here in SE Ga. 4th great grandfather was in the Georgia militia that fought the last remaining Native Americans in this area pre-Civil War. My 2nd great grandmother told a story of watching Indians come up in their yard to draw water from their well during dry summers when she was a small child. She also told of remembering watching Confederate soldiers passing by their home, many wounded, headed back to Florida in the late 1860s. My mother still lives within 1/2 mile where my 2nd grandmother witnessed this. Its still a dirt road.

I had/have WW1, WW2, Vietnam, and Iraq War veterans in my family.

I could go on and with family members involved in many things...some good...some not so good. But thats enough for now.

To the best of my knowledge, I was the first with a college degree and the only game warden in my family.


....and you had the gall to put a permanent scar on that rich family history with the game warden nonsense?

(You know I’m kiddin swamp lol)


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918478
07/02/20 10:16 PM
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Some of my family members said the same thing, but heck...they trained me what to look for when i was growing up...


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918480
07/02/20 10:17 PM
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most of my family came to this from Northern east Europe and Scandinavian countries 1860-1880 Farmers , Ship builders and Fisherman however one part of family line goes back much further in the US to the Beginning.

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Re: Heritage [Re: Swamp Wolf] #6918481
07/02/20 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Swamp Wolf
Some of my family members said the same thing, but heck...they trained me what to look for when i was growing up...


Lol...


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918484
07/02/20 10:19 PM
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Grandfather used to strike largemouth bass in these cypress swamps with a burning fat lighter knot in one hand and a machette in the other.

Night deer hunting wasnt a thing until the 70s, 80s and later as there were no deer.

All my great uncles were moonshiners.

Last edited by Swamp Wolf; 07/02/20 10:21 PM. Reason: More info

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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918485
07/02/20 10:19 PM
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Us left coasters don't have quite as much to go on -- but-- my great grandmother(i knew her) and grandfathers farm is 2 houses down from where I live and was raised. My cousin still farms it and mom and dads place, and got ther century farm card a few years ago. That explains my reluctance to move but I fear i will have to shortly,

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My sister got the bug to research the family. Found on my Dad's side was one born in Connecticut in 1740. From there they went north to Vermont for awhile then headed to Wyaconda, Missouri. Some taking native wives along the way. On my Mom's side her grand parents were from Bavaria and didn't get here until WW I.


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Re: Heritage [Re: Swamp Wolf] #6918504
07/02/20 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Swamp Wolf
Grandfather used to strike largemouth bass in these cypress swamps with a burning fat lighter knot in one hand and a machette in the other.

Night deer hunting wasnt a thing until the 70s, 80s and later as there were no deer.

All my great uncles were moonshiners.


.... you’re welcome in my camp anytime lol

... but seriously.. I stay on the right side of law most times ...unless I swerve left to miss a little nonsense every once in awhile


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My great uncle drove Patton around in his Jeep during WWII. I had 2 other Great uncles get themselves out from deep behind enemy lines during the same war. A great grandad 3 times over fought for the union in the civil war. Also, have a great uncle that raised 12 children deep in the blue ridge mountains, the only job he ever had was making moonshine. I guess what I’m most proud of is from both sides of my family, I come from a long line of men and women who knew how to work and weren’t afraid of it or ashamed of it.


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Re: Heritage [Re: danny clifton] #6918517
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
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Oh, and they didn't hunt the buffalo to near extinction. Cattle disease was the culprit.


Uh Oh. That is exactly my opinion also but I get lambasted every time I say it.

https://www.petersenshunting.com/editorial/buffalo-hunted-to-near-extinction/273078

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My oldest son done the Ancestry.com thing last year and learned he was a mix of Norwegian, Swedish and other north central European blood. The report showed that immigrants from these areas moved to GA, SC, NC, and VA in colonial times.....with many settling in east central and southern Ga...which is spot on.


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I dont think anyone has thoroughly researched when our family actually got to America, on my dads side we have marriage records from a wedding in 1736 in Quebec, they spent alot of time in Canada before heading to Massachusetts area in the 1920s, 5 of my grandpas brothers on that side served in WWII, my grandpa did not serve, in the early 2000s we found out why, he was working on the Manhattan project in New Mexico. After the war his brothers told him about liberating Japanese prison camps and my grandpa used to say "bomb was to good for the Japs", he did not like Japanese at all.

On my moms side 3 uncles fought in the war of 1812, one of their sons fought for the Union. My great grandfather x3 headed to Oregon but stopped in MN because he didnt think he could find somewhere better. Alot of WWII and Korea vets on that side of the family. My grandpa got a purple heart in Korea but if you asked him about it he would only say "I was just a cook", when he got back he couldnt even bring himself to shoot a cow for butcher. The aunts and uncles still own a bit of the original homestead but a moronic Uncle lost most of it pretty recently.

One other thing of note, my great grandfather got into a gunfight with a Sheriff while he was rum running during Prohibition, no one was hurt.

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My grand parents and such waited till the the country was slap tamed and emigrated from Switzerland mostly, some from England but we don't talk about them.

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07/02/20 11:18 PM
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I had at least 68 ancestors in the US by 1700.

3 of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower in 1620. Senior Elder William Brewster was the head of the Pilgrims and gave the First Thanksgiving Blessing. His wife Mary Brewster was in charge of and cooked the First Thanksgiving Dinner. John Turner died the first Winter, with 2 of his sons. His eldest son, my many great grandfather, came the next year.

I had 38 ancestors in the early Jamestown settlement.

At least 14 of my many great grandfathers fought for the US in the Revolutionary War. 1 fought for the British.

President Hoover is a nephew and cousin of many great grandfathers of mine. We have letters he wrote. President Harding and Theodore Roosevelt are second cousins of many great grandfathers of mine. President Franklin Roosevelt is a more distant cousin as is his wife Eleanor.

My many great grandfather, British Admiral, Sir John Hawkins, started the BLM mess we have right now. He was a privateer and captured a Portuguese slave ship off of Africa, he transported the ship and the slaves to the Carribean and sold them to Spanish colonists. He was the first Englishman to start capturing and buying blacks in Africa and transporting them to the New World. His cousin, British Admiral, Sir Francis Drake joined him a year later. John talked other wealthy British men into starting the Triangle Trade of African slaves, cane sugar and rum and cotton and tobacco. John was the first person to bring tobacco to England. His picture was on most early cigarette boxes. He was the first Pirate of the Carribean. He took literally hundreds of tons of gold from the Spanish Armada. He was one of the World's wealthiest men. He paid the modern equivalent of a $137,000,000 to get his son back from the Spanish, when they caught him raiding them. He was an international spy for England. He foiled a coup attempt by the Spanish. He was a hard man. He beat a guy to death in a bar fight. When a South American town told him he had to pay tax on the slaves he was selling, he had his fleet point hundreds of cannons at the town and told the mayor he would level it if they charged him tax. He did not pay. He did start some hospitals for mariners that are still going.

Keith

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918583
07/02/20 11:38 PM
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Warren, (Southeast) Texas
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Had a relative that moved from Alabama and built a small plantation near Center, Tx. Three of his sons fought and died fighting for the Confederacy. Had several other relatives that fought for the Confederacy as well. Had a great uncle that was a Merchant Marine during WW2 whose ship was sunk by the Germans. He lived to tell about it. Had a distant cousin, a Marine, that died on the beach at Iwo Jima. Had several uncle's that fought in Vietnam.
I'd have to get out the family book to get more specifics.

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Re: Heritage [Re: ETexTrapper] #6918606
07/03/20 12:13 AM
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Coldspring Texas
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Originally Posted by ETexTrapper
Had a relative that moved from Alabama and built a small plantation near Center, Tx. Three of his sons fought and died fighting for the Confederacy. Had several other relatives that fought for the Confederacy as well. Had a great uncle that was a Merchant Marine during WW2 whose ship was sunk by the Germans. He lived to tell about it. Had a distant cousin, a Marine, that died on the beach at Iwo Jima. Had several uncle's that fought in Vietnam.
I'd have to get out the family book to get more specifics.


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918609
07/03/20 12:14 AM
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I thought this was neat when I found it:This was my many great grandfather:

James Parshall
BIRTH Sep 1754
Suffolk County, New York, USA
DEATH 24 Apr 1836 (aged 81)
Middlefield, Otsego County, New York, USA
BURIAL
Middlefield Baptist Church and Cemetery
Middlefield, Otsego County, New York, USA

James was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War in Capt. Sackett's Company 4th regiment of the New York line, under Col. Livingston. He was captured and kept prisoner for seven months on the ship HMS Falmouth in New York harbor. He was in the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth. He spent the winter at Valley Forge where he was secretary to George Washington.

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918677
07/03/20 06:18 AM
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Missouri
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My mother was born a Hatfield. Yes, a descendant of those Hatfields.


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918680
07/03/20 06:21 AM
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potter co. p.a.
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the farm i'm working on rebuilding came into the family in the late 1880's,been a labor of love.









Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918785
07/03/20 09:15 AM
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I just wanted to trace my last name. I also did a straight line search on my mothers side. Have a many great grandfather on her side that immigrated in the 1600's from Holland. My name is English in origin. Have direct line relatives that fought in every conflict this country has been in except Grenada.


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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918826
07/03/20 10:01 AM
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My mom has traced alot of the family
On her side several native peoples but most refused to be part of the tribe, somehow we are related to judge Parker in Texas and the girl that had the face tattoos who was captured by Indians.

On my stepdad side we go back to captain Cook

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6918864
07/03/20 10:58 AM
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To make a long story short, I tell folks I come from a long line of Gypsies and horsethieves…

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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6919243
07/03/20 07:13 PM
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This was my grandpa’s farm
Sale. He died in 1945 from complications of typhoid fever they believe. My dad’s grandparents from both sides came from Germany. Grandma never remarried and raised the 4 kids at the farm they kept renting. Dad was 15 pounds when born and they thought grandma was gonna pass from injuries during the birth (in the farmhouse) so they put dad in the warming oven of the cookstove to work on grandma. Both came out okay except dad has a bit of a deficiency in his right arm from the birth.

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6919547
07/04/20 12:37 AM
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Parts of my family have been in this county forever others arrived as early as 1557 with a Spanish expedition so here are a lot of story’s but some of the interesting points are things like the first of my family name landed in Brownsville TX in 1860 and was paid to join up with the confederates for him it wasn’t about any kind of ideology for him it was his profession, politely he was a professional soldier some would say mercenary, later he served in the 7th calvery, funny thing is I have 2 different ancestors that served in the 7th one servived because he was on leave and the other was with Reno, one settled in MN the other in WI somehow their grand kids meet and married

My dad and his 5 brothers all served in WW2, 2 of them didn’t make it back ma had 7 brothers who served only 1 made it back, dad was wounded twice, declared dead 3 time twice after his position was overrun and he ended up behind Japanese lines and another because of a mixup in names he died at 55 from service related disability’s

According to my aunt who is really into the ancestry thing there has been someone from my family who has been in every war this country has been in from the revolution on often on both sides



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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6919561
07/04/20 01:06 AM
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Lots of holes in my history... not real sure on moms side...mostly Dutch and German. Her grandparents were cattle ranchers in Joseph Oregon. Joe and Opal. Opal was half souix. I didn’t know them well, went out to visit many times....but kids didn’t speak unless spoken to. They were Mormon.
Dads side I can track by paper back to Tennessee and Georgia.. got my great Grampa’s ticket book and .38, Memphis police. Apparently I have a whole LOTTA family back there I’ve never met. Most I’ve heard are hillbillies with a few learned folk mixed in...explains a lot. My dads parents moved all the way out to Oregon in the 40s to be hillbillies there. Before that I hear we come from Scotland and Russia? Roomers I say.

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6919568
07/04/20 01:28 AM
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Hey nvwrangler, you know Bill and Betty Heintz, Steve Heintz, Wayne Marston or Hank and Maxine(I forget their last name)Hank and Maxine had a couple cattle ranches. One in Ely and one near moapa.

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6919578
07/04/20 03:52 AM
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both sides of my family came to canada from 1620 to 1630 then came to usa around 1900 have been in nh all the rest of the time

Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6919714
07/04/20 08:49 AM
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A good portion of my family came from the area centered around where Georgia, the Carolina's and Tennessee come together. We came to NE Oklahoma about 1838-1839 and have been here ever since. My siblings and I and a few first cousins are the first generation not born and raised in that area.

Have a couple of "locally" famous folks in our lineage but nobody big. The interesting part is that since our recorded history (ca. 1751) my family has served in every conflict, war or "police action", sometimes on the losing side but always for what we believed. Needless to say Memorial Day and Veterans Day are pretty important holidays for me and my family.






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Re: Heritage [Re: Savell] #6919725
07/04/20 09:00 AM
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The ship my ancestors came over on missed Manhattan Island and ended up landing in Canada somewhere. They came from Holland.
My Dad was on a ship headed for Pearl Harbor when the Japanese surrendered.


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