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A blog about my family history: Hawthorne, Galloway, Hamrick, and Gowens.

J.B. Hawthorne Enlists for WWI

Author: wp-admin April 13, 2018 1 Comment

100 years ago today…   My grandfather, James Boardman Hawthorne, enlisted in the US Army on Saturday, 13 April 1918 in Texas, probably Houston, where he was living with his sister Etta Mae and her family. He always said he… (Read more)

Hawthorne

Hawthorne, James Boardman Hawthorne, Texas, WWI

Tombstone Tuesday: Alexander Travis Hawthorne

Author: wp-admin December 13, 2016 0 Comments

Alexander Travis Hawthorne Born: 6 April 1860, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States Died: 15 January 1926, Waco, McLennan, Texas, United States Son of Adoniram Judson Hawthorne (1834-1877) and Clara Elizabeth Amelia Ford (1835-1908) Alexander Travis Hawthorne is my Paternal Great-Grandfather… (Read more)

Hawthorne

Alabama, Ford, Hawthorne, Houston, Mobile, Texas, Tombstone Tuesday, Waco

Tombstone Tuesday: Sammie Redford Galloway, Sr.

Author: wp-admin November 29, 2016 2 Comments

Sammie Redford Galloway, Sr. Born: 16 May 1910 Big Spring, Howard, Texas, United States Died: 20 January 1962 Orange, Orange, California, United States Son of William Jefferson Galloway, Sr. (1882-1963) and Rooney Delilah Hicks (1886-1931) Sammie Redford Galloway, Sr. is… (Read more)

Galloway

Big Spring, California, Galloway, Howard County, Orange, Orange County, Texas, Tombstone Tuesday

William Jefferson Galloway, Sr. Residence in 1918

Author: wp-admin November 28, 2016 2 Comments

Where exactly did William Jefferson Galloway, Sr. and family live in 1918?  The reason I am curious is because I have two separate documents from 1918 and one of them has an additional clue as to where they might have… (Read more)

Galloway

Brazos County, Galloway, Hicks, Macey, Robertson County, Texas, Wheelock, WWI

Tombstone Tuesday: Myrtle Christine (Hamrick) Hawthorne

Author: wp-admin November 22, 2016 0 Comments

Myrtle Christine (Hamrick) Hawthorne Born: 22 August 1904 Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States Died: 6 February 1985 San Diego, San Diego, California, United States Daughter of George Thomas Hamrick (1869-1919) and Lillian Alice Foster (1877-1927) Myrtle Christine (Hamrick) Hawthorne is my… (Read more)

Hamrick, Hawthorne

Alabama, Hamrick, Hawthorne, San Diego, Tombstone Tuesday

We’re Related App by Ancestry.com

Author: wp-admin November 16, 2016 2 Comments

The Social GeneaSphere has been ablaze since Ancestry.com released their We’re Related app on October 19th. It is an app that “taps into 70 million family trees, 8 billion connections, and 6 million profiles to expertly connect you to possible… (Read more)

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Ancestry, We're Related

Tombstone Tuesday: James Boardman Hawthorne (1899-1993)

Author: wp-admin November 15, 2016 0 Comments

James Boardman Hawthorne Born: 12 January 1899 Greenville, Butler, Alabama, United States Died: 12 December 1993 Escondido, San Diego, California, United States Son of Alexander Travis Hawthorne (1860-1926) and Kathryn Ann Albertson (1869-1915) James Boardman Hawthorne is my Paternal Grandfather. Burial:… (Read more)

Hawthorne

Hawthorne, Tombstone Tuesday

Stars Fell On Alabama 1833 – Who Was There?

Author: wp-admin November 12, 2016 0 Comments

On the evening of Tuesday, 12 November 1833, a historic meteor shower rained down upon the Earth.

Galloway, Hamrick, Hawthorne

Alabama, Baggett, Basore, Bergsteiner, Crawford, Ford, Harless, Hawthorne, Hicks, Laurendine, Loper, Mitchell, Nabors

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