Mam-ma's Southern Family

I am working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I’ve written about Nathan H.O. Polly, my four times great-grandfather, who was a circuit riding minister in Texas here and here . He also owned land and farmed. He was enumerated in two agricultural censuses: 1870 in Kaufman County [1] and 1880 in Rockwall County. [2] Now Rockwall County was formed from Kaufman County, so he probably did not move, just the county name changed. I need to verify that! 1870 Agricultural Schedule 1870 Ag Sched - Kaufman Co, Texas for NHO Polly (see line 11) I will discuss each of the columns here. I used a blank census sheet for the headings [3] : He had 25 improved acres and an additional 260 that were not. The cash value of land was $1300. The cash value of the far

I am working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. When I first started researching my family I was told about all kinds of possible relatives We’re related to Will Rogers. We’re related to the Coors family We have Native American roots, possibly Cherokee It’s funny, that all of these “legends” are on my maternal grandmother’s family. As I worked through the research, one generation at a time, I have disproved these legends. Rogers Angle. We do have Rodger/Roger ancestors. Eliza A. Rodgers married Ebenezer Loveless on 19 March 1871 in Chattooga County, Georgia. They later moved to Faulkner County, Arkansas. Eliza’s parents might be David Rodgers and Rebecca Waddell. They might have had nine children, all born in South Carolina. I suppose it is still poss