Monday, February 4, 2008

Eldon Shamblin

Eldon, the greatest Western Swing guitar player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPZG8HegCuo

Saturday, February 2, 2008

William Huckleberry

Adeline Huckleberry is my great great grandmother. She married Benjamin Griffith in 1850 so she is on the Census with her husband not her parents. She died between 1870 and 1880 so there is no death certificate. I have not found where she is buried.

I found this article
http://myindianahome.net/gen/switz/records/history/Sigmon.html which gives the name of Adeline's sister as Lucinda. (However, I think it is Laurinda.) She died in 1902. I just got Laurinda's death certificate and it gives the name of her Father as William Huckleberry and her Mother's maiden name as Butchdnenon born in Indiana. So the last name can't possibly be right. By looking at rootsweb and myindianahome.net, I believe the last name is Buchanan.

William has either two or three wives. Not sure if Adeline and Laurinda have the same Mother as they are nine years apart in age. But at least I have the Father's name.

John Stinson Spangler

I was reading the obituaries the other day and saw this lady who was born in 1919 in Sherman, Texas. Her father was James Stinson. I kept thinking, "Stinson, Stinson I know that name." Then I remembered my great uncle was John Stinson Spangler. I checked a few of the Censuses for Grayson County. James Stinson's father was a doctor. Dr. Stinson and his family did not live in the same Census Ward as the Spanglers. However, Sherman Texas was not that big so I'm sure they would have know each other. Maybe Jake and Columbia hoped young John would grow up to be a doctor! (He did not.) Dr. Stinson was not the doctor that signed Jake and Columbia's death certificates, either.

When I come across these different middle names ie. Stinson, Rodman, Burch, I have been trying to fit them into the family. I guess I will have to check first on the Census and see if they are neighbors.