Sarah Webb’s Obituary
And here's our girl Sarah Webb, my great-great-grandmother who ended up living with Lynch the Doctor in Knoxville. This means my grandmother Ruth Webb Packett personally knew her grandmother, which tickles me to no end.
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Ruthrawls’s Blog- Upper St. Peter’s Parish February 16, 2020Ah, the book. It’s “Upper St. Peter’s Parish and Environs”, by Thomas Oregon Lawton. He is deceased now, and the book is out of print. However, his son gave me permission to put a section here on the blog. It’s an important section that has answers for some folks. Mr. Lawton gathered documents that had […]Ruth Rawls
- Finally at Colonial Cemetery… February 3, 2020And here our story draws to a close. After leaving Laurel Grove, we were able to head downtown and easily find a parking spot. We were here in Savannah a few weeks prior, and the city was packed with tourists and no parking was to be had. Savannah has a system where you park, purchase […]Ruth Rawls
- Out and About with the Denslers February 1, 2020Leslie and I are trailing the Densler families again. The city of Savannah has a cemetery database. I’ve mentioned it before when I’m looking for dead people. I scrolled through all the Denslers, and I screenshot the ones I am interested in. Barbara is most probably the spinster whose will I posted here. I found […]Ruth Rawls
- Sometimes you have to do something January 26, 2020My parents and my in-laws are all deceased. My parents are far away in my hometown. My in-laws are not so far. I was suddenly seized with the notion that I should visit them for Christmas. I took a longer lunch and drove to the Columbarium at Fripp Island. I had to call ahead of […]Ruth Rawls
- And Finally: David R. Densler January 20, 2020David died intestate. Fortunately for us Densler followers, we have probate. There’s a problem with 2 slaves, Hector and June (possibly Jane). They are part of the estate, and they will not stay at any one place. This of course means I will need to check the newspapers to see if they were ever reported […]Ruth Rawls
- A Special Sweater for a Special Nugget January 15, 2020A coworker had a little hurricane baby about 4 months ago. I knitted her a baby afghan in a feather and fan pattern. In truth, it is the only pattern that I can construct without looking at written directions, and it looks complicated and lacy. Actually I knitted 2 afghans. The first one seemed too […]Ruth Rawls
- Andrew Marshall, a Free Man of Color in Savannah January 13, 2020Georgia Chatham County In the name of God, Amen: I Andrew Marshall a free man of color of the City of Savannah, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament. Item First. I commit my soul unto God, hoping for happiness in the world to […]Ruth Rawls
- Dog Saves Infant, 1821 January 12, 2020When I’m looking through the old files and newspaper articles, I get easily distracted. EASILY. The stories are so good. Like this one… From the Augusta Chronicle, May 17, 1821, from GenealogyBank. Remarkable preservation.–Mr. Geo. Kreps and family, of this town, emigrated last fall to Alabama. In crossing a river, in the Indian nation, they […]Ruth Rawls
- The Catalogue of Chatham Academy, 1832-1833 January 12, 2020While looking for more Densler information on ancestry.com, I found this little jewel in its entirety. The 3 Densler children of Frederick and Mary are mentioned and BONUS! William Starr Basinger, written as “Bassinger” which it often is, and gives us a clue as to the correction pronunciation. CATALOGUE OF THE TRUSTEES, INSTRUCTERS AND STUDENTS […]Ruth Rawls
- The Will of Mary “Polly” Marston Pearson Densler January 9, 2020I first learned about Aunt Polly Densler from Leslie’s family Bible. If you were reading the blog back in 2014, you’d have learned about her, too. She married Frederick Densler, and that was about all we knew about her, except that she was Leslie’s 3xgreat-grandmother’s sister. Recently after blogging about the new/old marker at Laurel […]Ruth Rawls
- Upper St. Peter’s Parish February 16, 2020
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September 3, 2011 at 8:41 pm |
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August 26, 2012 at 6:56 pm |
Was googling to try to figure out how to find your paypal account for ’em cats, and caught this instead. Is this from the “New-Sentinel”? P.S. Also, inform me about the account. 🙂
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August 26, 2012 at 10:32 pm |
If memory serves, I think I got this copy from the East Tennessee Historical Society, but really, I don’t know how I would have known ETHS had it on microfilm. So, I don’t know where I got it, but I’ve probably had it since 1999.
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