documenting my very southern genealogy from the plantation to the frontier
Sarah/Sally Bembry I recently spent a bit of time perusing indexes of The Southside Virginian at our local library, and came up with one useful piece of information. Sally “Bembra” is listed as an insolvent on the 1783 tax list in Nansemond County, Virginia, very near Elisha Darden. This proves two things: 1.) The Sarah … Continue reading A Couple More Bembry Discoveries
My 4th great grandfather, William "Honest Billy" Shaw, by his own account, grew up in Wythe County in southwest Virginia, "on the waters of the New River." Virginia origins I am virtually certain that William's father was another William Shaw who is found in local records from that time. By digging into that William Shaw's … Continue reading William Shaw from Virginia to Tennessee
A few months ago, I learned that Thomas Taylor was my 5th great grandfather. I recently returned to researching that line. It was a bit of a brick wall at first, because I could not find primary sources for multiple online claims that he was the "Colonel Thomas Taylor" who was a Revolutionary soldier in … Continue reading The Curious Case of Colonel Thomas Taylor
Earlier this year, while researching William Shaw, I discovered that Thomas Taylor was my 5th great grandfather. That whole line was kind of giving me a headache after having to lop off an entire line of the wrong Shaws, so I set it aside for a while. Recently I've been researching Thomas's family, and found … Continue reading Will of Thomas Taylor, 7 August 1815, Davidson County, Tennessee
While cleaning up my tree on my maternal Kelly line, I managed to create a whole new pandemic project for myself. Le sigh. Yet another case of multiple guys with the same name I realized while tidying the family of my 3g grandfather, James Logan Shaw, that I had no actual proof that he was … Continue reading Lesson Learned: Finding the Correct William Shaw
A Long Way to Tennessee 