Mam-ma's Southern Family

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again -  Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 1) Which of your ancestors or relatives have you NOT found in the Census records and what have you done or are doing to try to find that person? Can AI help? 2)  Identify one or more of your ancestors that are inexplicably missing from one or more census collections.  Why do you think they were not enumerated? Thank you to Marian B. Wood for this SNGF idea. Here's mine: In 1900, I should be able to locate my great-grandfather, George Warren Lancaster, and my 2x-great-grandparents, William Carlton “Carl” & Martha Jane “Dollie” Lancaster, in Erath County, Texas. George would have been 7 years old. His brother, Willie, 5, and sister, Josephine, 3, would also be in the household. The next daughter, Margaret, was born in August 1900. I have searched using all kinds of name variations. I have searched li...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again -  Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) We all have many names (given, middle, surname, nickname) in our ancestry, whether we know all of them or not. 2)  Do you have "A Name That Runs in Your Family?" Is there a first name — or nickname — that keeps repeating generation after generation in your tree? Share the name, the pattern, and your best guess as to why it stuck. Thank you to Linda Stufflebean for this idea. Here's mine: I have ten instances of the name Dempsey in my grandmother's line. The earliest named Dempsey that I have found is Dempsey Welch , supposedly born in 1725 in Virginia, and husband of Priscilla Perry, who was born in 1731 in North Carolina. I have not yet researched this family personally, but a proposed father of Dempsey was Jacob Welch, but there is no wife. Could she have...

My grandmother, Pansy Louise Lancaster Johnston, had many leisure activities.  When she was young, just married, she played on a softball team.  She sewed her own clothes. She spent time fishing with my grandfather, Tom Johnston Jr. After he died, she took up tennis. And then bowling, way into her 90s. Finally, after she had to slow down, she took up crocheting and embroidering. She enjoyed her leisure time. #52Ancestors: Week 28 – Leisure Time This is my ninth year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow ( https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/ ) at Generations Cafe . I write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or My Trails into the Past . I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Copyright © 2011-2026 by Lisa S. Gorrell, Mam-ma's Southern Family, All rights reserved.

Martha Jane Coor was born 10 May 1873 in Copiah County, Mississippi, to James Madison Coor and Melissa Ann Welch. [1] After her mother died, she moved to Erath County, Texas, with her father in the early 1880s. [2] She was nicknamed “Doll.” The story I got from my grandmother, Pansy Louise Lancaster, who was her granddaughter, was her grandfather called her that because she was so beautiful, like a doll. [3] Another researcher also told a similar story to me: “My dad, Ivey Coor, [nephew of Martha Jane, his father was James Rufus, brother of Martha], talked about Dolly numerous times. He said that the reason her nickname was Dolly was because she was so beautiful and looked like a Doll.” [4] Did her husband name her Doll or was she already called Doll before they were married? William Carl Lancaster and Mattie Coor were married on 9 March 1892 by minister, C.G. Kiker. [5] She was not named Doll in this document, but rather “Mattie,” a nickname for Martha. In 1880, she was name...

1771. Supposedly born on 13 January 1771 in North Carolina, though maybe in South Carolina. The only source are online trees. 1791. He married Linna Hughes, daughter of George Hughes, perhaps in Newberry District, South Carolina. [1] 1799 . November 19. James witnessed a deed between Burwell & Elizabeth Carpenter to Samuel Neighbours. Land located on Little Horse Creek, with neighbors bordering: John Hugars, Holland, and Joseph Hills, as well as the meeting house branch. [2] 1800 . February 14. James purchased land from Samuel Neighbours of Laurens County for $250 a tract of land on Horse Creek waters of Reedy River totaling 250 acres. Neighbors mentioned were Benjamin Arnold, Joseph Hill, James Hollon, and a meandering branch. [3] COMMENT: This is likely the first piece of land he purchased. Looking at maps, this land was near the southern border with Laurens District. 1800. Census. Greenville County. Location not stated. Males - Under 10-     ...

Jesse Loveless, the father of Ebenezer Loveless, is my maternal 3x-great-grandfather. Because of his early history in South Carolina, I do not have much information sourced. An exact birthdate came from another researcher. The marriage is an estimate from a published source and based before the first known son’s birth. The earliest record of someone named Jesse is the 1847 land purchase in Cass County, Georgia, where they were living in 1850. The items below are what I have collected over the years. Like the previous 12 for ’26 ancestors, I conducted a new full-text search and added them to the timeline. Those items are recorded in orange text. Red text indicates the need to re-locate the document at a FamilySearch Center to rewrite a full citation. My comments are in blue text. 1806 .     Jesse Loveless was born in South Carolina. He was 44 in 1850, [1] 54 in 1860, [2] and 63 in 1870. [3] A full birthday of 30 Nov 1806 appears in many trees with no source. [4...