04.03.08
Posted in Faces, Unknown at 9:51 am by pat
Janet writes,
I hope you can post this photograph on your website and perhaps someone can help with with a positive identification.
My Mother-in-Law (Alice Joye Taylor Hill) has had this photograph for many years. All she knew was that the photo is of “Granny Taylor.” My Mother-in-Law was the daughter of George Charles Taylor (1907-1933) of Scott County, Virginia.
What Joye did not realize was that she had two great-great grandmothers who could have been called “Granny Taylor.” I will send a family tree in an email to follow this one.
The woman in the photograph is either Nancy Jane Salling (1842-1932), who was the wife of Milo Taylor and the mother of George Monroe Taylor…….or she is Nancy M. Dorton (1848-1931), wife of Monroe Taylor and mother of Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Taylor.
Milo Taylor and Monroe Taylor were brothers, both sons of James Andrew and Catherine Stewart Taylor. Milo’s son George Monroe Taylor married his first cousin, Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Taylor, daughter of Monroe on 28 March 1888 in Scott County.
On the 1930 Federal Census in the DeKalb District of Scott County, Virginia Nancy M. Dorton Taylor was living in the home of her daughter and son-in-law, George M. and Mary E. Taylor. Nancy Salling Taylor was living next door in the household of her son Mark Pomeroy Taylor.
Submitted by Janet Hill, Galax, Virginia
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Posted in Family History Files at 9:27 am by pat
Janet writes,
This is a family tree for my husband’s grandfather, George Charles Taylor (1907-1933). George was married to Glema Virginia Warf (1911-1986), daughter of Robert Jordan Warf and Lora India Burnett originally from Carroll County, Virginia. George and Glema were married in McDowell County, West Virginia on 18 June 1929.
George Charles Taylor was killed in a car accident in Gary, West Virginia on 23 October 1933. He and Glema had three children: Daughter Dorothy Jean Taylor who died at 3 months of age due to crib death, son Lester Edward Taylor and daughter Alice Joye Taylor Hill.
Click on the image to see a larger version.
Submitted by Janet Hill
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03.04.08
Posted in Faces at 8:30 am by pat
Rylynn writes,
This is a photo, given to me by my mother, of my great, great grandparents, my grandmother and great aunt (Both granddaughters of Amos and Arminda). I have no idea where this picture was taken or what year as there is no writing on the picture. I’m trying to piece together my Bledsoe/Lawson family and hopefully will find some more information to share or connect with someone else here.
Amos M. Bledsoe b Feb 1878 Scott Co, VA d Aug 1954 son of Alfred Bledsoe and Keziah Moore.
Arminda Gilliam b 1877 Scott Co, VA d 1963 daughter of Aaron Gilliam and Sarah Ash.
The two little girls are:
Nadine Lawson (my grandmother’s sister)
Addie Lawson (Holding doll) (My grandmother)
Both girls are the daughters of Cynthia Jane Bledsoe and Doyle D. Lawson.
Cynthia Jane Bledsoe daughter of Amos Bledsoe and Arminda Gilliam.
Doyle D. Lawson son of Haston Lawson and Laura Elizabeth Gilreath.
Submitted by Rylynn Blake
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Posted in Unknown at 8:15 am by pat
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Jane writes,
Pat, I am trying to find out if anyone living recognizes these family members. The picture is made at Harvey Wolfe’s home on Mother’s Day, 1915. My grandmother Frances Maud Wolfe is the girl in the white dress in the foreground of the photo and her parents are on the back row left corner, Andrew Jackson Wolfe and Laura Catherine Lane Wolfe. Unfortunately by the time I had possession of the photo no one was living to tell me who they are. A.J. and Laura lived and are buried near Rye Cove in Scott County.
I also wonder if anyone has information about the children in this school picture. I have no knowledge of the school name etc.
Submitted by Jane Hoskins
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01.13.08
Posted in Faces at 12:35 pm by pat
Malinda S. BOOHER SHOEMAKER
b. 22 Feb. 1806, daughter of William BOOHER and Lydia FREDERICK of Scott Co. Virginia.
Married Rev. James SHOEMAKER (related to the Col. SHOEMAKER, founder of the Shoemaker College in Gate City) 25 Feb. 1824 Sullivan Co., TN—only son of Daniel and Mary Easley SHOEMAKER.
She moved with her husband to Claiborne Co, TN about 1838, New Tazewell area.
She died in Knoxville, TN, and is buried in the SHOEMAKER plot of the Old Gray Cemetery
Submitted by Elizabeth Haskett, Malinda’s ggg-granddaughter.
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01.10.08
Posted in Family History Files at 6:28 am by Doug Carter
My grandfather, Floyd Sr, was born (1904) and grew up in Ft Blackmore until he was about 20 years old. With the help of Bobbie Johnson, my father and I did a lot of research several years ago in Scott county with several visits to relatives and collecting a great number of stories, pictures, and data. We documented some of our research in one book, “Descendants of Sciota R. Crook of Scott County Virginia”.
Use the link above to view the pdf file. You will need Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer.
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12.21.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:15 am by pat
I want to apologize, to all the great folks who come here to visit, about the comment spam that has been sneaking through my spam filters.
This site has been online since September of 2006 and since then my spam program, called Akismet, has kept almost 6,800 various spam comments from reaching the site, but the spammers, especially the porn spammers, are always trying to find new ways to sneak through. This morning I am receiving about 2 new ones every minute… whew! Hopefully the software will continue to do its job and keep most of it out of your view. I will do my best to remove any that do get through as soon as I can.
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and a bright New Year!
Pat
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01.13.07
Posted in Obits at 10:42 am by pat
Wilburn Patton Head,
b. January 27, 1879; d. July 14, 1922
from Scott County, VA Newspaper
WILBURN P. HEAD
Wilburn P. Head, who was a native of this county, but who has lived several years in Kentucky, was killed by his horse on his farm in Lee County, KY., where he had gone from his home in Richmond to see about some matters on his farm, on Friday afternoon, July 14. He was in a field among his cattle when his horse suddenly kicked him in the breast, from which he died the following morning.
This was a shock to his many friends in Scott County, as there has not been a more manly man, with stronger traits of character, went out from our people than Wilburn P. Head. Everybody who knew him admired and liked him. He was the son of the late H. P. Head and was reared below Speers Ferry, this county in Robinett Valley. He will be recalled by many here several years ago as a student at Shoemaker College, also by many of his school friends when at William and Mary College. Later he left college and went to Idaho and was engaged in the sheep business there for several years; returned from there and married Miss Mollie Stephenson, daughter of the late J. W. Stephenson, near Speers Ferry. He then engaged for a while in the mercantile business at Appalachia, and later in merchandising and farming in Kentucky. To this marriage four daughters were born. He has been successful in business and always made friends where he went. He has several relatives in Scott County, J. H. Peters, of the Peoples National Bank, being his cousin and boyhood friend. He leaves one brother, H. H. Head of Appalachia, and one sister, Mrs. Paralee Darter, of Church Hill.
It is very sad from the human side of life that such things occur. With our limited vision we cannot always understand them. But we do admit that “There is a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we may.” There is a Providence working in all and through all the affairs of life. We do not understand it all now, but “Some day we’ll know and understand it all.”
“Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall cease to be never!
Never the time it was not, end and beginning are dreams.
Birthless, and deathless, and changeless abideth the spirit forever.
Death cannot touch it at all, dead though the house of it seems.”
A rose impaled upon a somber cross
We hold as sign of immortality,
And each of us from some Gethsemane
must pass alone to this dread Calvary.
Eternal life is only won through pain
And sorrow, like the Man of Galilee,
We needs must suffer if we wish to gain
The vision grand and set the spirit free.
—-J. H. P.
Wilburn was the son of Hezekiah Patton Head
Submitted by Debbie Hunt
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01.12.07
Posted in Faces at 6:13 pm by pat
Front row:
Rose Malicoat, George Malicoat, Sarah Jane “Barnett” Malicoat, Mary Malicoat
Back row:
John Howard Malicoat, Dolly May Malicoat, Mat Malicoat, Sarah Elizabeth Malicoat.
Sarah Jane was the dau of John Barnett and Elizabeth Johnston Barnett of Scott Co., VA lived on Big Ridge. Three of her daughters (Sarah, Mary and Rose) married 3 Davis brothers in Oklahoma. Photo taken before 1900 Indian Territory.
Submitted by Jean Brand.
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Posted in Faces at 10:14 am by pat
Hezekiah Patton Head, b. April 22, 1843; d. June 13, 1912, Scott County, VA. He was son of George and Malinis Gilliam Head. He married (1) Martha E. Wininger in 1864. Martha was born october 3, 1841 and died March 4, 1901.
Children of Hezekiah Head and Martha Wininger were:
Elbert R. Head, b. July 11, 1867; d. Sept 3, 1898
Nancy M. Head, b. April 24, 1869; d. January 11, 1871
Phillip Head, b. October 10, 1870; d. November 19, 1881
William Jeff Head, b. March 8, 1872; d. January 11, 1882
Parilee Head, b. January 6, 1874; d. September 13, 1933
George B. Head, b. February 2, 1876; d. 1914
Wilburn Patton Head, b. January 27, 1879; d. July 14, 1922
Julia C. Head, b. January 31, 1880; d. 1893
Henderson H. Head, b. July 10, 1882; d. November 27, 1936
He married (2) Sallie A. Johnson and had one child, Portia Head, b. 1907.
Fought in Civil War, Confederate Army, 1st Company B, 21st Battalion; 64th VA Mounted Infantry, Company C
Submitted by Debbie Hunt
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