A Genealogy Blog by Dana Huff
Posted in Family Biographies/Histories, Photographs on Aug 7th, 2010
August 11, 2010 will mark the 72nd anniversary of the death of my great-great-grandmother, Stella Ophelia Bowling Cunningham. I find her endlessly fascinating, perhaps because I know more about her than I many of my other ancestors. She left behind a diary (pdf), a letter to my great-uncle Alvin Cunningham, and several other letters I [...]
Posted in Family Biographies/Histories, Photographs on Jul 31st, 2010
Artamissa Sparks Willis is my great-great-great-great grandmother. She was born on 15 January 1816 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. She married my great-great-great-great grandfather Andrew Jackson Willis about 1834. They would have eleven children together: David, Newton Allen, Catherine J., Nathaniel A., Milton, Mary, Andrew Jackson, John L. (my great-great-great grandfather), Samuel, James Joseph, and [...]
Posted in Photographs on May 17th, 2009
I was able to go to a family reunion and meet some distant cousins, including my third cousin once removed, Helen, who has been a wealth of information with regards to the branch of my Cunningham family who stayed behind in Georgia (mine moved to Texas). I really enjoyed talking to my cousin Walter Burkhalter [...]
Posted in Letters, Photographs, Primary Sources: Letters, Documents, Diaries, Histories on Apr 11th, 2009
My cousin Dara sent scans of the following letter from my great-grandmother, Gertrude Nettie Perkins Gearhart Lightle. I have discussed her story previously on this blog. Kiona, WA April 6, 1940 Dear Bessie, I was sure glad to hear from you again. I looked in vain for a letter all winter. I have been sick [...]
Posted in Family Biographies/Histories, Genealogy and History, Photographs on Feb 9th, 2008
The current Carnival of Genealogy asks genealogy bloggers to share their top posts in the following categories: Best Picture Best Screen Play Best Documentary Best Biography Best Comedy I was fairly silent on this blog in 2007 as my family, career, and other interests pushed genealogy into the back seat. It is not my intention [...]
Posted in Photographs on Jan 22nd, 2008
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Posted in Family Biographies/Histories, Genealogy and History, Photographs on Aug 12th, 2007
Some time back, I shared with you some photos of my great-grandfather Herman Cunningham and his WWI tentmate John Roy McCravey that my aunt Carolyn had sent me. She told me that she had an article about their reunion, but couldn’t find it at the time. Later, she took the trouble to find the article [...]
Posted in Archiving, Photographs on Jun 2nd, 2007
Civil War buffs (and genealogists who like to see Civil-War era photos) will appreciate this video:
Technorati Tags: video, Civil War, history, photographyPosted in Photographs, Primary Sources: Letters, Documents, Diaries, Histories on Aug 22nd, 2006
John William Tolleson is not my ancestor. If my great-great-grandmother’s life had turned out a bit differently, however, I wouldn’t be here. She was once engaged to John William Tolleson. In my great-great-grandmother’s diary (PDF download), she only mentions him six times: December 2, 1893: “Wrote to J.W.T. and Mary Hutton.” December 12, 1893: “Got [...]
Posted in Family Biographies/Histories, Photographs on Aug 18th, 2006
My great-grandfather, Elmer Theodore “Ted” Thurman, passed away on October 22, 2003 at the age of 93. He had been in poor health for some time, suffering from diabetes and Alzheimer’s. I have more memories of him than I do my Cunningham great-grandparents, but not quite so many memories as I have of Granny Thurman, [...]
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