In my previous post, I expressed my appreciation for a newfound cousin in Ancestry who made me aware that I my late Aunt Mazie in Foreman, Arkansas had written a book called So Now, We Wear the Green. I now have something to offer in exchange to my new correspondent, JB, and to others who might come along with interest in the families who took over lands in the southwest corner of Arkansas, including but not limited to Little River and Sevier counties. Finding The Pulpit and The Pew In recent months, I have tried to consolidate the artifacts that family members, primarily my mother, have handed down to me. More than 25 years ago, my father made a photocopy of a self-published text called The Pulpit and The Pew. My father died in 1993 so I cannot ask him to confirm this. The pages that I found in among my mother's artifacts, were looseleaf photocopies bound by two holes at the top with a shoelace. This is how my father typically archived things that were important to him. Inscribed to Malinda Cannon I only met my great aunt Mary Zerelda one time when I was too young and shy to build much rapport with her. However, my older cousin Malinda grew up a short distance from my grandfather George Edward and she enjoyed traveling with him to see his relatives in Foreman. It appears that my father borrowed Malinda's copy of this book given and inscribed to her by our aunt Mazie. I hope to discover that one of my cousins has a copy of the larger text So Now, We Wear the Green.
There are sure to be corrections... Feel free to send the book along to other individuals by sending them a link to this blog posting. Show them where the document came from originally. This is all done so that individual researchers can continue to include my name and contact information. That way any corrections can be made communicated back to me. And I am open to suggestions as well. I hope this works well for sharing with you.
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Today I've finally returned to my messages in Ancestry.com where I found that I had neglected a very interesting inquiry from a cousin. She and I share 15 centimorgans and we both have a few Lemons in our trees. Jane Lemons had been a name resting on a very short branch of my Taaffe tree. Our family lore told me she was an immigrant from Ireland. Some years ago I looked for a way to connect her in documents or in names of any nearby relations. I had even collected a little pile of twigs to throw against her brick wall. Those twigs are represented by my ledger full of empty Ancestry searches and individual records of people with the Lemons surname (or similar) living in other parts of the US and Canada in the same decades. None of these twigs had helped to extend the story of our Jane Lemons in Arkansas. I imagined she had come to Arkansas alone before marrying or had ended up alone shortly after arriving. My new Ancestry.com correspondent, JB, has introduced me to the records for Jane's nearby Irish-born relations in the same community. In a second gift today, JB has also made me aware of the research legacy built by my great aunt Mazie. My grandfather's younger sister, Mary Zerelda Cannon, self-published books to share her years of research about the families in and around her community of Foreman Arkansas. She already had a reputation in my somewhat-removed family for being an avid family historian. I didn't know she had interviewed cousins and artfully compiled the results. ![]() I'm surely the one to blame that I hadn't known more until now. I only met my Aunt Mazie once at the age of about eleven when I was too young and shy to really build a lasting rapport. And like my grandparents, my parents, my siblings, and my aunts and uncles, I moved away from my hometown as a young adult. Now that my opportunity to know my aunt is long gone, I'm starting to ask my near cousins about the book that JB has introduced me to recently. It's called "So Now We Wear the Green" with more than 200 pages of stories, documented connections, and speculations to connect individuals. I'm in my early retirement years and I've recently lost the last near relative of my father's generation. So it is truly bittersweet to realize in equal measure that I am sad to arrive so late to my family's stories and that I am so happy to connect with related and generous researchers like JB. My Lemons tree is blooming at the start of summer 2019. Thank you JB for the leads, I'm delighted by the number of names and documents that now extend my research diversion and that remind me of my tenacious aunt. Look for my documents in the next blog entry. |
aboutA conversational space for deeper questions. Each post is a response to another cousin-researcher or a think-aloud exposition about ongoing challenges. It is one of four separate blogs on this site, each one focusing on the branches arising from one set of great grandparents.
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