Mam-ma's Southern Family

Mam-ma & Tom-Tom Christmas 1972 at the Hork house I wish my readers a Merry Christmas! May the joy and happiness fill your homes today. Lisa Copyright © 2011-2025 by Lisa S. Gorrell, Mam-ma's Southern Family, All rights reserved.

This post is to honor and remember two young daughters of Ebenezer Loveless and his wife, Eliza A. Rodgers. Emma Loveless appeared in the 1880 household of Ebenezer and his wife as a six-year-old born in Arkansas. She had two younger siblings, George A., aged 5, and Arthur, aged 1. [1] She does not appear in another census and died sometime after this census entry. A search at Find a Grave brought up a memorial for Emma with a photo of her gravestone, located in Springhill Cemetery in Faulker County. [2] It states: EMMA & MINNIE Daughters of Rev. & Mrs. Eb. LOVELESS Here is the photo of stone I took in 2015. There is no birth or death date for either girl. This introduced another daughter, Minnie, who was dead before 1880. There is no clue as to when this stone was created, though to my untrained eye, it appears more modern than the supposed death dates. Another clue to it being placed later in time is having no dates on the stone, so perhaps the family forgot the ac...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again -  Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from  Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings : Join in, accept the mission, and execute it with precision. Here's your chance to sit on Genea-Santa's lap (virtually) and tell him about your Christmases past. Rev up the old thinking cap and cue up the Mission Impossible music - your mission, should you decide to accept it - keeping with the Christmas theme - is: 1)   Today's challenge is to share memories of December holiday gatherings and celebrations with your families (as a child, a young adult, a parent, a grandparent, a great-grandparent, an aunt or uncle, a nibling, a cousin, an in-law)!   2)  Pick two or three questions from the list in my blog post:    Ask AI Gemini:  "What questions can I write about concerning family gatherings and celebrations during the December holidays?"     This is a new list of qu...