Just like a truck driving through a construction zone, I am embracing the concept of slowing down in my genealogy. In the beginning, like every new budding family historian, you want to see how far back you can go as fast as you can. So, you become a name collector. All you are interested inContinue reading “Slowing Down”
Author Archives: Gray Stabley
Education
School just started back this week and it made me think of how much I liked to learn (and still do). Here I am in the 3rd grade. I remember getting excited for the first day and seeing all my friends again. When we were young, my mom would take us to Sears to buyContinue reading “Education”
Granny’s Wedding Day
What better way to resurrect a blog than with a wedding! On this day (May 29th) in 1919 my great-grandmother, Effie Eans Dennis married for the second time to Edwin Loy Rankin. Granny, as everyone called her, first married Samuel Patrick Donahoo, M.D. in 1893, but after only 12 years of marriage and 5 children,Continue reading “Granny’s Wedding Day”