December 2020

Dec 22 2020

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas: Unfolding Ancestral Traditions

4 Comments / Genohistory on Purpose, Newspapers, Research / By Donna Cox Baker / 11 minutes of reading

Happy holidays to you all! As I planned for this post, I intended something quick and simple about our ancestors’ holiday traditions. I thought it would be fun to pick a Christmas, any mid-nineteenth-century Christmas in my region of interest, and discuss how the local newspaper treated the holiday. I was in for a surprise.

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Dec 6 2020

Born Here, Died There: The Life between Bookends

10 Comments / Genohistory on Purpose, Writing Genohistory / By Donna Cox Baker / 5 minutes of reading

My 2nd-great-grandfather Jacob Dennis Mayberry, widowed in 1917, desired a fresh start. In 1919, he purchased a 440-acre farm in Chilton County, Alabama, 24 miles northeast of his former residence in Bibb County. He built a large and rambling house around the old cabin that stood there. His daughter, Clara, her husband, Otha Payne, and their baby, Clara Thomas Payne (my grandmother), and his unmarried daughter Mary Thomas Mayberry moved with him to the new place. And on this property, they all lived out the rest of their lives, though you would not know that by a basic family tree.

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