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




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

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.

.... a little patchy was it lol

Good story Yote... sounds like you have some pioneer stock

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.

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).

.... Boco ... go make an igloo lol

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.

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."

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.

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.



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

Blessings!
Mark

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

Sorry for your lose

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

.. 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

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

Yes sir, I have two really old Bibles from them with births and deaths back into the 1800s recorded within

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