I believe in miracles, how ever small they may be. While corresponding with Rick Lawrence, an online researcher I had connected with through genealogy.com on my Crawley family, I witnessed one. He mentioned receiving some scans of photographs of my 3rd Great Grandparents Charles C. Crawley and Martha Jane Aubrey from some connections in...
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James “Jim” Nees Jr. was my 3rd Great Grandfather and my family line continues through his son Steven Guthrie Nees (1863-1881) who married Anna Eliza Neal (1863-1935). Several people from his family applied for Cherokee Citizenship in order to claim lands in the Indian Territory before it was divided up. The applications that they...
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Thomas Ingram was my 3rd Great Grandfather through his son William N. Ingram (1855-1947) who married Mary Catherine Francis Heindselman (1860-1959) in 1897. As I was typing his family group record, I realized that there are quite a few dates and marriage/spouse entries missing for his family from my research. As genealogy goes, the...
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I feel very lucky to have crossed paths online with James Preston IV who shared with me photos and family information on his namesake that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise been able to get. He granted me permission to share the items with others, and so below is the only picture he has of...
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It was said that my Great-Grandmother Etoyl (Montgomery) McCall’s brother Lyle Montgomery had a daughter who had inherited most of the Montgomery family photos. I feel very lucky to have tracked her down through some old letters of her mothers, and that she was willing to share. In her photo collection, she had a...
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I was looking through some of my things recently and ran across some pictures that an internet friend (Rick Lawrence) had sent me. In addition to telling me great stories passed on from his mother about my Montgomery relatives, we swapped much information on the Crawley side of my family. Charles C. Crawley is...
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The following is the family of my 3rd Great Grandfather Dr. John M. Montgomery. He must have made a fine impression on his sons, since 4 of them became doctors including my Great Great Grandfather Dr. Tom. He was married twice and had 4 children by his first wife Angeline, 10 by his second,...
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The following is the family group record for Col. William Thomas Neal. Shortly before he left for the Civil war, he fathered my Great-Great-Grandmother Anna Eliza Neal who married Steven Guthrie Nees. After William was killed in the Civil War, his brother James Preston Neal – who was also a widower – married is...
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I was looking through some of my things recently and ran across some pictures that an internet friend (Rick Lawrence) had sent me. He shared with me great stories passed on from his mother about Dr. John’s son who was also a doctor, Dr. Lee Montgomery (the brother of my Great-Great Grandfather Dr. Tom)....
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Dr. John M. Montgomery is my 3rd-Great-Grandfather through his son Dr. Thomas Marion Montgomery. The following is a history of him I found in The Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1891. DR. JOHN M. MONTGOMERY Dr. John M. Montgomery, Sr., one of the oldest practitioners in the county of...
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