The Chestnut Burr

I was born into the Church of Christ , so to speak.   My family were   faithful members of the Sansom Avenue church of Christ in...

An awful event has occurred which cannot be undone!  It was a Pandora's box which should never have been opened.  I'm talking about ...

Today I'd like to write about my wife's Whitt family origins. Her sixth generation Grandfather was Shadrach Whitt, who was born in 1...

In an older blog I wrote, entitled Genealogy Bug Bites Me  I mentioned not knowing the maiden name of my Great Grandmother Emma Cox.   I st...

My Grandparents were Wallace Henry and Serepta Cox.   They were my mother’s parents who gave dad the land to build his house.   We lived ...

Sipping on a fresh homemade strawberry kombucha, I’m sitting in a 600 square foot room we call “the cave”. It’s snowing outside, while I’...

I originally published this on 11/9/2017 and added four other chapters during the following days, as I dug for information.   The story was...