Mam-ma's Southern Family

I have fond memories of eating catfish my grandfather caught, likely at Clear Lake where they had a cabin in the town of Nice. Mam-ma always prepared the fish by rolling them in cornmeal and egg and frying them. Oh, so delicious! Now, I have never been fishing, so I don’t know much about how to catch catfish, what bait to use, or where the best place to find them at Clear Lake. I never asked my grandfather about how he fished. He may have fished from a boat. However, I found a website that gives tips on fishing at Clear Lake. [1] Besides catfish, largemouth and smallmouth bass, white and black crappie, bluegill and sunfish, and perch can be found in the lake. I learned that catfish prefer warmer coves but are also found near marinas. Live bait, cut bait, or dough bait can be used and some of the best baits are chicken livers, hotdogs, anchovies, mackerel or sardines, and even night crawlers. In this photo, we can see he had a successful day of fishing. This is taken at their hom...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's  Saturday Night  again -  Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings asks us to “Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.”  1)  Pick an ancestor, any ancestor.  What do you know about them?  What source type(s) do you have for each item? Answer the 20 questions below about your chosen ancestor. Here's mine: 1)  Ancestor's birth name:  Abner Ebenezer Loveless [1] 2)  Ancestor's parents:  Jesse Loveless and Elizabeth Nixon [2] 3)  Ancestor's birth date and place:  8 Feb 1851 in Georgia, likely in Cass County, as that is where the family was living in 1850. [3] 4)  Ancestor's baptism/christening date and place:   likely Baptist, so no infant baptism . 5)  Ancestor's spouse birth name:   Eliza A. Ro(d)gers ; [4] Melissa M. Settle [5] 6 )  Ancestor's spouse paren...