Sunday, August 9, 2015

The life and death of Will Mathis

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My brother-in-law, Alan, recently shared with me a document he found in some of his Mississippi grandmother’s belongings. In great shape o...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Throwing in my two southern cents on the Confederate flag

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My grandparent's farm in Haywood County in the mid-1990s. I'm a Southerner and I love all things related to West Tennessee. I...
Saturday, June 6, 2015

Photo of Mary Aurelia Blaydes Castellaw and Jack Pender Castellaw

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Photo/Lynn J. Graves Click to Enlarge Mary Aurelia Blaydes Castellaw with her grandchildren Lynn Graves is one of my many Castellaw cou...
Monday, May 25, 2015

The Brantley DNA test results are in and the father is...

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Random Photo from Pinterest Thanks to my cousin Betsy’s detective work, we were recently able to take part in a DNA project that confi...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Never-before-seen photos of Hiram Bradford family cemetery

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Click to Enlarge Likely descendants of Hiram Bradford taken at "The Old Bradford Place," Sept. 1924  I love it when tech...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

Book: A Year in the Life of the South 1865

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Click to Enlarge I've long been fascinated by the the years immediately following the Civil War and how it impacted the lives of my...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Will and Eva Overton Williams of Haywood County, Tennessee

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Photo/Mary S. Williams Click to Enlarge Will and Eva Williams I never knew my paternal great-grandfather, William Lafayette "...