I use Ancestry.com’s Family Tree Maker (FTM) to keep all my research. One great thing about FTM is that it searches Ancestry.com for possible matching records and suggests them to you by way of a little shaking green leaf icon. I was reviewing some of those suggested records today, and it led me to a…
Minnie Graham
Minnie Melinda Adeline Graham was born on 10 June, probably in 1882, in Bear Creek Township, Searcy County, Arkansas to parents Jesse Graham and Sarah Scott. 1900 The 1900 census is the earliest surviving census to record Minnie, the 1890 census having been destroyed by fire in 1921. In 1900, Minnie was living with her…
The Many Wives of Patrick, Part 3: Mary Frances Graham
It was late January 1903, and Patrick Bohannon had just buried his second wife Mary Frances Wilbanks, whom he called “Fannie” with affection. Patrick soon found solace with Mrs Mary Frances King, née Graham, a young widow who had lost her husband and two sons in the Indian Territory a couple of years earlier. The…
The Tale of Two Sarahs
I was doing some research on Mollie Graham in the 1910 census when I saw that her mother Sarah was living with Mollie and her second husband Patrick Bohannon. “Ooh, nice find,” I thought. “I need to add that to my previous blog entry for Jesse and Sarah Graham.” So I pulled up that entry…
Jessie Cornelius Graham
Jessie Cornelius Graham was born in Searcy County, Arkansas on 22 July 1892. By my reckoning, he was the second child of John Henry Graham and his wife Mary Matilda (Bohannon), and their first son. He was likely named for both of his grandfathers, paternal Jesse Graham and maternal William Cornelius Bohannon. Jessie, age 8,…
Graham Ancestry 