Category: Family History
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Finding Robert Keller
I have often been asked if I might be related to this or that Keller. Always the answer was undoubtedly negative since all my relations in Virginia rose from one man, Robert Keller. He only had two children who produced offspring and one of those, John Keller, resided only in Ohio. The other was Joseph Earl Keller…
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A Good Sport – A Story about David Mahone published in the Daily Progress on June 23, 2002
There aren’t a lot of certainties in life, but there are a dozen kids who can bet the farm on two things. The 12 players who wear the Shoney’s uniform in the McIntire Little League know with absolute confidence that they’re going to learn a lot about baseball. They’re also going to get a bunch…
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Viva L’amour!
BY BETTY BOOKER TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Monday, February 9, 1998 Parisians, famished and fatigued, took to the streets in wild jubilation as Allied and Free French forces swept into the capital to liberate it from German occupation as World War II ground to a halt. Troops were swept into Paris “on a physical wave of…
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A Christmas Story – Matthew or Luke?
Since both stories cannot be true[1], a logical reader needs to choose one or the other as the more reasonable account. I do not think either must be accepted to know Jesus as the Christ (perhaps the Puritan church was correct to just try to eliminate Christmas), but if I were to choose one, I…
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Our Texas Boyd Cousins
Our Massie/Boyd ancestors, Henry Curran Boyd, son of David Boyd, and Juliet Anna Massie had 11 children. Their last child, Lila Goode Boyd, was our direct ancestor. She married Price Perkins Gantt as his second wife. One of Lila’s brothers, William Hammond Boyd, moved to Texas from Roseland, Virginia, and there married Katherine Earle Peebles…
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Meredith Branch Discoveries
July 1907 Plate showing Meredith Branch and the parallel Mill Race. This map was drawn for the property sale which led to the building of a new dam by Springfield Road and the creation of Echo Lake. This proves that no lake existed or remained as of that date.
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Maria Gantt Keller’s Family Letters
1987 Maria loved to write letters. It would be wonderful if her mother had saved and passed down the letters she wrote her from Blackstone College during the two years she attended school there. Or the letter she wrote when she finally arrived in Richmond and moved into her first boarding house, but if they…
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Gone is the Village Green
Early on the morning of August 20, 1969 my oldest sister, Maria, called me to condition me for the inevitable shocker that was already hitting all of the news services that Massies Mill, VA with most of its inhabitants had washed away. The rest of our Nelson County was in a like condition – either…
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Maria Mahone’s Last Letters
Christmas would soon be here, and Maria Mahone was anxious to have her family around her, but she did not know if her health would allow it. Her only daughter and eldest child, Evelyn Gantt lived not too far away, but she had just had a baby herself that summer and was constantly concerned about…
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Early Family Memories of Virginia Gantt
This is of life, lovingly dedicated to brothers and sisters despite fifty-five years of association, have remained constant in loyalties, affection, and would in all cases, now or in the past, haven given aid or comfort in whatever form was needed. This story is not written as any pretense at literary skill, but in the…