From AppealDemocrat.com: Mildred Isabel Watts April 22, 1929 - November 20, 2012 Mildred Watts of Pioneer, CA died November 20, 2012 in Sacramento, California. Born April 22, 1929 in Imo, Arkansas to Jewel and Archie Gates. She loved to garden, can, and was known for her homemade biscuits, gravy, and pear pie. Mildred was a…
Signature Move
I recently exchanged a couple of e-mails with Donald Bohannan. He wrote, in part, that he had a copy of Mary Matilda Bohannon’s signature from her marriage document1 and suggested that I correct the spelling of her surname on my journal since it appeared she signed it “Bohannan”. I do not wish to enter into…
The Many Wives of Patrick, Part 1: Rixey Ann Watson
On 8 June 1861, voters in Tennessee approved a referendum to secede from the United States of America to join the Confederacy, the last state to do so. Upon the end of the Civil War, Tennessee was the first of the seceding states to have its elected members re-admitted to the United States Congress, on…
Eliza Revisited
Today, I published a major revision of my article from October 2010 on Eliza Ann Graham. The following changes have been made: Added detailed information from the 1880 census. Added more details from the marriage document of Eliza and Siler Watts, and included a scan of that document. Tweaked 1900 census paragraph. Added an image…
Fourth And Three
Two tidbits of information revealed themselves to me as a result of my recent timeline post. Fourth Born Following the end of the Civil War, the United States Congress passed the Reconstruction Act, which placed the former Confederate states into five military districts overseen by the United States Army. Each district was governed by a…
Graham Ancestry 