3rd Great Grandparents

Born 1764-1822

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Thomas Little Ricks(1810-1850)

My Paternal 3rd Great Grandmother, married Sarah Ann Latham

“We have no overgrown fortunes but we have no beggars.”

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Margaret Little(1806-1879)

My Paternal 3rd Great Grandmother, married Benjamin Lanier Daniel

The “Vilomah,” the story of poor Margaret’s devastating losses.

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Isaac Tillitt (1800-1851)

My Maternal 3rd Great Grandfather, married Mary “Polly” Hall

Born Rich, Married Rich. His Grandson committed Murder for “Love”

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Dr. Gideon C. Marchant IV(1798-1861)

My Paternal 3rd Great Grandfather, married Emily Sawyer Dauge

Five generations of sea captains ran through his veins, yet he chose to become a doctor.

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Edmund Rutter Rodgers (1797-1846)

My Maternal 3rd Great Grandfather, married Mary Phillips

Used Enslaved Persons as Collateral for debt Transactions, Opened First Dry Goods Store in Graves County Kentucky, Daughter worked as a Nurse Beside her Surgeon Husband during Civil War

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John Maud Blakeley Carlton(1808-1865)

My Maternal 3rd Great Grandfather, married Nancy Mary Kelley

A father who survived the ravages of the civil war from 1861 to its ending at Appomattox, two sons taken as POWS, one son a guard at Andersonville prison.

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Nancy Mary Kelley (1810-1853)

My Maternal 3rd Great Grandmother, married John Maud Blakely Carlton

She led a quiet life on a farm with her beloved husband and children and died young before the Civil War brought misery to her family.