A Genealogy Blog by Dana Huff
Posted in Primary Sources: Letters, Documents, Diaries, Histories on Apr 16th, 2011
What follows is a transcription of the Confederate pension application filed by my great-great-great-grandfather, William Jones Bowling (pictured) in 1911. Underlined portions are written in either W. J. Bowling’s hand or that of the clerk in order to fill out the application. Form A For Use of Soldiers, Who are in Indigent Circumstances The State [...]
Posted in Family Biographies/Histories on Apr 12th, 2011
The Civil War began 150 years ago today. Several of my direct ancestors fought in the Civil War, but I have yet to find a relative fighting on the Union side, even though some of them lived in the North during the conflict. Shelby McDaniel My third great-grandfather Shelby McDaniel served in the 9th Texas [...]
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 [...]
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