If you’ve been paying attention, then you’ve noticed that I’ve been working my way through the children of John and Mary Graham, my great grandparents. By my reckoning, Evisa Jane Graham was the first child of John and Mary. She was born on 17 September 1890 in Searcy County, Arkansas, probably in Red River Township. …
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…
Timeline Thus Far
I thought it might be neat to take some of the dates mentioned in the articles on Graham Ancestry and arrange them in chronological order along with some other significant American historical milestones. Nineteenth Century 4 July 1819. The Territory of Arkansas was created from a portion of the Missouri Territory. 15 June 1836. Arkansas…
The Great War and William Thomas Graham
A “lost” second cousin recently commented that William Thomas Graham had died “during WW1.” I hadn’t even recorded that William served in the military, so a records search ensued!
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 