Montgomery County
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Church Records Sunday
Register of Members (Macedonia) Names transcribed to the best of my ability. Corrections are welcome! Continue reading
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Church Record Sunday
Register of Members (Macedonia) Regarding names transcribed, please let me know if there are corrections! Continue reading
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Seven Ancestors Ago–George Shankle (52 Ancestors)
This post is a part of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by Amy Johnson Crow at www.nostorytoosmall.com. According to George Shankle’s Revolutionary War Pension Application of 1832, he was born in North Carolina in 1754. According to the application, he lived in North Carolina in that part of Anson county which was later Montgomery County on the Continue reading
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Amanuensis Monday
The subject of this sketch, above named, was born in this vicinity, grew to manhood and made his home here all his natural life, having gone to his final and eternal home since the last meeting of Harris Reunion. By trade, Lee was a shoe and harness maker, and he prosecuted this trade for many Continue reading
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Church Record Sunday
Register of Pastors NAME DATE OF APPOINTMENT TERM OF SERVICE I have transcribed this to the best of my ability, but I am no handwriting expert. I welcome any corrections! Correction to #14 thanks to Jean Warner. Continue reading
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Four Ancestors Ago–John “Sutt” Morris (52 Ancestors)
This post is a part of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by Amy Johnson Crow at www.nostorytoosmall.com. John Thomas “John Sutt” Morris is my 2nd great-grandfather via The facts: The following was written by my mother in about 1990. John T. “Sutt” Morris There were so many John Morris’s in the Moratock, Eldorado, and Ophir communities in the late Continue reading
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P is for Preacher aka Five Ancestors Ago–LeeRoy Whitson Harris (52 Ancestors Week 16)
is for Preacher. This post is a part of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by Amy Johnson Crow at www.nostorytoosmall.com. Rev. LeeRoy Whitson Harris is my 2nd great-grandfather via The facts: He was a shoemaker according to the 1880, 1900, and 1920 census. In 1910, he was listed as a farmer. Was this just the recorder listing Continue reading
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Church Record Sunday
I’m working to digitize the Church Register I found at my mom’s. Continue reading
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I is for Indian Princess
is for Indian Princess We all have them, right? One of your grandmothers was an Indian Princess. No? Perhaps just Indian then? 🙂 My supposed Indian Princess is Amelia/Melia/Millie who was perhaps Cherokee. She was married to John “Jacky” Morris and lived in Montgomery County, North Carolina, in the 1800s. edited to add: sarcasm. Continue reading
Chasing the Past 
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