Mam-ma's Southern Family

This is my third year 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 have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Three Generations of Lancasters My grandmother holding my mother & my great-grandparents & great-uncle My grandmother was born Pansy Louise Lancaster (1913-2013). I have researched the Lancaster line back to Robert Lancaster (1784-1840), who was her 3x-great-grandfather.  ·    George Warren Lancaster (1893-1964) o William Carl Lancaster (1873-1946) §   George W. Lancaster (1839-1919) ·    Ellis Wilson Lancaster (1808-1866) o Robert Lancaster (1784-1840) I found Robert Lancaster in Shelby County, Kentucky in the 1820, 1830, and 1840 censuses. [1] He purchased land from Thomas Hanna and his wife Mary on 5 December 1821. This land was located ...

This is my 9th anniversary of the start of my blog. I attended a wonderful class at the California Genealogical Society given by Craig Siulinski and he taught us how to blog.  Janice Sellers  was also in the class and we support each other's writing. I began this blog to write about my maternal grandmother's ancestors. I later found it was too restricting and created a second blog to cover all of my other ancestors (and my husband's, too). I don't write as often with this blog as I would like, but I wrote sixteen posts last year, mostly as part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks , which I shared posts across both blogs. I will make an attempt to write more of my 52 Ancestors here this coming year. Copyright © 2020 by Lisa S. Gorrell, Mam-ma's Southern Family, All rights reserved.

This is my third year 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 have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I have several ancestors who either made fresh starts before the Civil War, or made them after the end of the Civil War. These ancestors all moved to Texas, where probably the draw of available land lured them. Once one family member went, others followed. From my maternal grandfather’s side My three-times maternal great-grandmother, Amanda A. (Haley) Jones (1827-1904), first followed her husband, Benjamin W. Jones (1822-1864) during the Civil War and after his death, she moved first to Hays County, Texas, and then to Comanche County. [1] A three-times maternal great-grandfather, Samuel Johnston (1816-bef 1869), must have seen the writing on the wall about the upcoming war in the south. He ...