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Sentimental Sunday: Miles F Stanley II letter

Sunday, April 18, 2010

This note was written by my grandfather Miles Francis Stanley II to his then-girlfriend and my grandmother-to-be Charley Belle Rogers: June 16, 1933 Dear Kid: Will be down tomorrow. Don’t know just when but I’ll be there. Donno who I’ll bring. Perhaps Dick Wright. ‘Member him? He’s my pal and th’ only gent in the [...]

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Finally… a clue! (conclusion)

Saturday, April 10, 2010

So, how am I ever gonna find any data on my 2nd great-grandparents, Joseph Rogers and Susan Hannah Knox? I have checked online for census, BMD, cemetery, land, military… every kind of record that I can think of, with no success. And because I have very little information on these ancestors, I don’t feel able [...]

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Finally…. a clue!

Saturday, April 10, 2010

One of my  “sturdiest” brick-walls has been the inability to find any trace of my 2nd great-grandparents, Joseph Rogers and Susan Hannah Knox. I have no primary evidence of their existence. Nothing. What I do have is their names on the SS-5 application of my great-grandfather Charles Arthur Rogers: What I do have is their [...]

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Women’s History Month, Day 7: Hot tea with honey

Sunday, March 7, 2010

I was 13 years old when my great-grandmother Mary Tennessee (Turner) Rogers died at age 91. When you’re 13, you don’t notice much but yourself and your friends. (I know, my granddaughter just turned 13!) So, I don’t have that many memories of “MawMaw” Rogers. I wish I’d paid attention, MawMaw saw a lot in [...]

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Women’s History Month, Day 6: Bubba’s Quilt

Saturday, March 6, 2010

“Describe an heirloom you may have inherited from a female ancestor…” My great-grandfather Charles Arthur “Bubba” Rogers was a railroad man all of his life, first with the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway and later the Texas & Pacific Railroad. As a Bridge Foreman, he traveled all over Texas, wherever the railroad would go. [...]

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