MY FAMILY ROADSHOW

Sunday Dinner At Papa and Mama Ashburn's House Sunday Dinner was today's 'lunch' time, and the evening meal was Supper - not Dinner. 1955 ( I'm fairly positive this was around 1955 - Don looks to be around one - and he is a year older than me.  So I wasn't at this particular event, but I was soon after!) Esker and Fannie Ashburn Maternal Grandparents Papa is on the left and Mama Ashburn is close behind him  with glasses (holding my first cousin Don) . PRICELESS (My Official Name For This Photo) Sunday afternoons were usually spent at the home of my Maternal Grandparents - (Esker and Fannie Herren Ashburn).  They lived off the Cookeville Boat Dock Road in Baxter, Tennessee - on the Austin Bottom Road. Mercy what fun!  Playing, piling into the backs of trucks to go to the lake, and of course the Southern thing called … EATING!                             ...

THIS I BELIEVE Whether made from sticks or stones, houses of worship  have long been a part  of how we (and our families) understand and perceive faith.   Church buildings are representations where we are strengthened by preaching and sacrament.   However, when we go out the church door into the world - I believe that is the real church.   That is when our "Hearts and Minds" connect and we live out our faith.  It's not the building.  It's not the location.   THIS I BELIEVE... EASTER SUNDAY 1961 Ozion Freewill Baptist Church - Baxter, Tennessee I love this picture - many of my cousins are in it! We were all dressed up and ready for the 'Egg Hunt'. Where am I?  Second Row - third from the right! The Churches pictured here were  'Home' Churches for some of  my ancestral families.  Hepzibah Baptist Church 1880  Gambrell Family ~ Alabama Holy Trinity Church - (Old Swedes) Lerchenzeiller Fa...

Johann 'John' Wilhelm Lerchenzeiler b. 1670 Germany  d. after 1720 / 1746? Delaware 7th GREAT Grandfather Johann "John" William Lerchenzeiler   (1670 - 1746) is your 7th great grandfather Maria Magdalena Lerchenzeiler (1685 - 1721) daughter of Johann "John" William Lerchenzeiler Christopher Elrod Sr (1721 - 1785) son of Maria Magdalena Lerchenzeiler Christopher Elrod (1757 - 1827) son of Christopher Elrod Sr James Elrod (1780 - 1850) son of Christopher Elrod Parzetta E Elrod ( 1841 - 1917) daughter of James Elrod Alexander Martin (1865 - 1925) son of Parzetta E Elrond Dovie Mary Martin (1894 - 1933) daughter of Alexander Martin Ernest Haywood Allison (1921 - 2000) son of Dovie Mary Martin Anna Faye Allison -Burgess You are the daughter of Ernest Haywood Allison  GERMANY MAP Johann Wilhelm(William) Lerchenzeiler and his family were among the 5th party of Palatines (information ...

Viola Mildred Deweese 3rd cousin 2x Removed Finding documents which authenticate research is inspiring and simply pulls it all together.  Today's post is a find that I just happened upon after a distant cousin reached out to me after seeing my  BLOG  … just a new path… same family…  and on it goes… let's begin...  Viola Mildred Deweese INDIAN TERRITORY ~ Oklahoma This part of my family was either born and raised, moved, or forced to move to this part of our Country known as Indian Territory from the mid-late 1800s through early 1900. Viola Mildred Deweese (I read in one document that she preferred to be called Mildred)  was born on November 16, 1912, in Miami, Oklahoma -  (Miami was a town in  Indian Territory   and named  after the Miami Tribe).   She was the daughter of  Truman L. Deweese and Annie B. Deweese. In an Indian Census Roll - Quapaw Indian Agency - April 1, 1932~   Annie Dewees...