Musselburgh, Scotland: "The Honest Toun"
St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk, Scotland Even though we can't definitively link Samuel Watts II to Samuel Watts I, or Samuel Watts...
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RUTH'S ROOTS
Ten Years Later:
The Journey Continues
In the ten years after I published my two genealogy e-books, much more information has been digitalized and put online.
My intent now is to make new discoveries about my family tree. Last time my research was very ordered and systematic; this time it will be much more randomized.
My E-books at Amazon
rewood13
Sep 186 min read
A Very Revolutionary Find
The Battle of Monmouth I was quite surprised to see that Ancestry.com has some new (to me) family tree information about...
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rewood13
Sep 210 min read
The Family Life of Fred and Evelyn Grove Seely
Evelyn Grove and Fred Seely with two of their children Fred Loring Seely was born on December 22, 1871, in Shark River, Monmouth County,...
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rewood13
Aug 269 min read
Fred Loring Seely: How the Grove Park Inn Got Away
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...
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rewood13
Aug 1711 min read
The Mystery of Mr. Grove's Daughter
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...
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rewood13
Aug 144 min read
Edwin Wiley Grove, III: Down to Earth (More Things Nanny Never Told Us)
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...
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rewood13
Aug 124 min read
Edwin Wiley Grove, Jr.: Breach of Marriage Lawsuit (More Things Nanny Never Told Us)
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...
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rewood13
Jul 117 min read
Edwin Wiley Grove, Jr.: Breach of Promise (Things Nanny Never Told Us)
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,...
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rewood13
Jul 39 min read
Clarence Comes to Asheville
When he arrived in Asheville in 1900, Clarence didn't waste any time to begin marketing and promoting himself as an artist. You never...
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rewood13
Jun 306 min read
A Slight Taint of Insanity
Artist Clarence Augustus Worrall has always intrigued me. He was the nephew of my second great-grandfather, Samuel Miller Moore, the son...
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rewood13
Jun 154 min read
Tennis Anyone?
Helen "Gram" Margaret Neely was Papa Neely's oldest daughter and my paternal grandmother. I now have a few photographs of Gram's life...
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rewood13
Jun 118 min read
The Darker Side of Papa Neely
My father's maternal grandfather was John Wesley Neely, known to his grandchildren as "Papa Neely." As I wrote in
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rewood13
May 256 min read
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
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
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rewood13
May 194 min read
Hearing from the Distaff Side
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
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rewood13
May 717 min read
An Overview of Joshua John Moore
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...
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rewood13
May 65 min read
Joshua John Moore Comes to America
I decided to start by Googling my favorite ancestor, my fourth great-grandfather, Joshua John Moore.
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