Lydia Newby Death Certificate

Yesterday the death certificate for my Great Great Grandmother Newby came. I had hope that this would help in finding her husband K. H. Newby. All I found out was, at the time of her death she was a widow. I am going to see if I can find some cemetery listings for Franklin County, Tennessee since this is the last place we know that he was alive.

Winter Pictures

Ok! I'm sure some of you don't believe the last posting. I remembered that I saw some pictures on the internet of people standing on the Tennessee River so here is the link
http://www.tngenweb.org/loudon/family/alexander-j.html the year was 1940. These pictures were made north of Chattanooga but the one I posted was made in Chattanooga.

Winter Pictures

When I started this blog I was afraid I wouldn't be able to come up with enough things to write about. Now I find myself having trouble deciding what to write first. Looking around at different blogs I see interesting stories, pictures etc. and I think about pictures I have.

I was reminded of a picture my mother had of her brother (Jake). I'm not sure when it was made late 1930's or early 1940's. Tennessee doesn't get too much really cold weather but sometimes it does come our way. They had a really cold winter and the river froze. The story I always heard was that my uncle drove his car out on to the ice. Then he and his friends walked around and someone took his picture standing on the ice.

Land Grants

Yesterday I got the list of Brumley's from the Land Grants listing. We were looking for Brumley's from Marion County, Tn. I found the following William Brumley's
William Brumby, 1822, 86 acres
William Brumley, 1824,50 acres
William Brumley, 1825, 50 acres
William Brumley, 1826, 13 acres
William Brumley, 1826, 36 acres
William Brumly, 1824, 50 acres
Barshaba Brumley, 1824, 32 acres
We know of a William Brumley in our line but he was born in 1829. We are not sure of William's fathers name. Some of the family have said his name was John Brumley from Green County, Tn
but don't know how they connected William Brumley from Marion Co., Tn to John Brumley in Green Co. Maybe our William's father was the William Brumley with all the Land Grants which would make more sense because the family legend is that the Brumley's owned land from the Tennessee River and across Aetna Mountain in Marion County. My husband's grandfather George Paul Brumley and his brothers were born on Aetna Mountain and lived there til grown but never inherited any of the land so it would seem by the time that Seaborn (George Paul's father) died in the 1940's that most of the land had been sold? We know none of this for fact, just possible.
Now I need to look into who William's father was.
I have to say we got our information from the State pretty fast since we mailed it last week. It only cost $5.00 which isn't bad. We could not drive to Nashville, Tn and do the research ourselves for $5.00.

Long Family

In June 2007 my Aunt Betty gave me a picture of a Moses Long and wife. It is really a strip of three pictures about 1X3, a man, a woman and the same woman in a hat. My Great Great grandfather was named Moses Long. I do not know what he or his wife looked like. My aunt told me that the picture had belonged to my grandmother. Moses Long would have been her grandfather. He died in 1919 and his wife died in 1915. They did not have a son named Moses but he did have a nephew named Moses who lived in the same area.

The pictures look like some kind of photo booth picture the way they are made together in a strip. I am wondering if this could be Moses Long who died in 1919 in this type of picture? I would like to find out more about this picture. My aunt has since died and I have not gotten to see any more of the wonderful pictures she had. There may be more pictures of Moses Long to compare to this one.

CRAZY?

I really am not crazy, it just seems that way sometimes. After I signed out I looked at my blog and saw that the manage blogs shows up only when I am signed in. Like I said I am new to blogging.

New to Blog

I have my first follower Terry from Desktop Genealogist Unplugged, how exciting. I'm still learning how everything works here on Blogger. I added Desktop Genealogist Unplugged to my reading list from the dashboard, I wanted to add My Blog List to my blog so I clicked on Manage? Now it says 1 Follower Manage?? Is this OK? I have since found where to add My Blog List and have added Desktop Genealogist Unplugged and Grace and Glory. There are several blogs that I enjoy reading and I have been following by saving to my favorites but I've got so many now that I thought I would start following from my blog since you can see when it was last updated.