RUTH'S ROOTS

The Title Page Mathew Carey was a prominent Philadelphia publisher and economist from Dublin, who came to America after fleeing Ireland...

When George Washington died on December 14, 1799, of "quinsy" (a bacterial infection of the throat), it took a while for word to get out...

Tench Coxe (1755-1824) The researcher I hired at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania found five letters from Joshua John Moore to a...

The Board of Longitude (1714-1828) The Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, also known as the Board of Longitude, was...

St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk, Scotland Even though we can't definitively link Samuel Watts II to Samuel Watts I, or Samuel Watts...

The Battle of Monmouth I   was   quite   surprised   to   see   that   Ancestry.com  has some new (to me) family tree information about...

Evelyn Grove and Fred Seely with two of their children Fred Loring Seely was born on December 22, 1871, in Shark River, Monmouth County,...

A young Fred Loring Seely I'm not going to go in-depth about Fred Seely, but I would like to. He was such a complicated and, in my...

Just the other day (August 13, 2024) I read an article in the Asheville Citizen-Times which discussed a 3,000 sq. ft. home made of river...

Edwin Wiley Grove, III Edwin Wiley Grove, III, was as unlike his dissolute father as it is possible to be. (His photo as a child appears...

Edwin Wiley Grove, Jr. The entitled Edwin Wiley Grove, Jr. , was born in 1890 in Paris, Tennessee, the son of E.W. Grove, Sr., and his...

Genealogy Collage

Now I'm going to write a little about the Grove family, who were instrumental in my mother's side of the family. As most of you know,...

When he arrived in Asheville in 1900, Clarence didn't waste any time to begin marketing and promoting himself as an artist. You never...

Artist Clarence Augustus Worrall has always intrigued me. He was the nephew of my second great-grandfather, Samuel Miller Moore, the son...

Helen "Gram" Margaret Neely was Papa Neely's oldest daughter and my paternal grandmother. I now have a few photographs of Gram's life...

My father's maternal grandfather was John Wesley Neely, known to his grandchildren as "Papa Neely." As I wrote in

I'm going to take a little break from Joshua John Moore -- I have found a lot more information about him -- and discuss some newspaper clipp

I know very little about Joshua John's wife, Elizabeth "Eliza" Massey, other than that she was a Quaker who left the Quaker Church to marry

I believe the above sketch is Joshua John Moore as drawn by his close friend, Nicholas King, in 1795. The other images are of people who...