Mam-ma's Southern Family

Lela Ann Lancaster, my maternal great-grandmother, died on 17 May 1951. [1] She had died in Wichita Falls, Texas, at the state hospital. The doctor’s handwriting is nearly illegible so the cause of death is difficult to determine. She was conflicted with Parkinson’s Disease which probably contributed to her death. Her funeral was three days later. [2] Lela Ann (left) with Warren, daughter Pansy, granddaughter Lela Nell, and son Wayne, c. 1935 Obituary Tells Story of Life Two obituaries were published on the same day in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune on two different pages. One gave information about her life and the funeral, and the other was about who attended her funeral. The transcription of the first is here: "Mrs. Warren G. Lancaster"    Funeral services for Mrs. Warren G. Lancaster, 55, who died at 4:30 a.m. Thursday at a Wichita Falls Hospital, were at 3 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Felix Gresham and the Rev. Ernest Rippetoe officiating

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)  When was the last time you visited the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, or visited a local FamilySearch Center? 2)  What record collections are on your To-Do List, whether at the FamilySearch Library, a FamilySearch Center, the Full-Text Search feature online, or Digital Microfilm on the Images, or Catalog Link on the FamilySearch.org website? Here’s mine: This is simple. On the first and third Wednesdays of the month, I volunteer at the Oakland FamilySearch Center from 4-8 pm. If there is no patron to help, then I work on something of my own, either checking locked films or looking at subscription databases on the FamilySearch computers that I do not subscribe to. However, the last time I was on the FamilySearch website was Thursday. I began looking at deed indexes for land records in Lewis County, Kentucky

Three deeds in a row, almost all identical, tell the story of farmers in Erath County, Texas, who leased a portion of their land for oil and gas exploration in 1915. Oil Well Drill, Texas Patent 732,925 Portal to Texas History Ebenezer Loveless, George W. Lancaster, and William Carlton Lancaster leased land to the Healdton Oil & Gas Development Company. [1] They received a dollar for the “sole purpose of exploring, mining and operating for oil and gas, and of laying pipelines and of building tanks, powers, stations and structures thereon to produce, save and take care of said products, with right of ingress and egress and all conveniences necessary to said operations.” The company had within a year to demonstrate whether there existed gas or oil in paying quantities in or under the lands, they were to put in a test well and the lease would be valid for five years. If oil or gas was found within that first year, then the lease would remain in effect until the oil or gas was exh

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's  Saturday Night again -  Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!!   Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to:  1)  Have you created a Kinship List for any of your ancestors or relatives in your genealogy software program?  If so, select an Ancestor - say, one of your great-grandparents, and create a Kinship List of all of their descendants.  Or another ancestor further back in time. 2)  Show us your work - how you did it, and the Kinship List generated (at least one page of it). Here’s mine: I followed Randy’s instructions as I have RootsMagic and have never used this report. This is what I did: 1)  On my "People" action page on the left-hand menu, I highlighted Nathan H.O. Polly (1820-1902). He is my maternal 4 th great-grandfather and the 2x-great-grandfather of my Mam-ma. 2)  I clicked on the "Publish" action on the left-hand menu, and then opened "All Reports and Charts" 3)  On the list