Why leave home?

The Jamestown Connection

The Rum Runner

The Mayflower Connection

The Quakers come to America

The Unstoppable Major General Bryan Grimes Jr

Rosefield Plantation, the Founding of Windsor, and Cousin William Blount the Treasonous “Dirt King”

Tales from the Outer Banks

The Lost Colony, Coast Guard Heroes and the First Flight at Kitty Hawk

French Huguenot Immigrant, Privateers, Sea Captains, Doctor

The Court of Henry VIII, the Dismal Swamp and Hiroshima

From Scotland and Ireland to the Wilds of Kentucky.

Massacre, Mayhem and Murder and Epigenetics

My Paternal 3rd Great Grandmother, married Benjamin Lanier Daniel

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

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

One son was a Prison Guard at the Confederate Andersonville Prison while another was a POW at the Union Point Outlook Prison.

My Paternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Fannie May Williams

Farmer, Merchant, Postmaster

My Paternal 2nd Great Grandmother, married James Lang Cobb

Widowed with five orphans just Prior to the Civil War, Dry Goods Store Owner, Died of Liver Cancer.

My Paternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Frances Elizabeth Daniel

The Son of a very Wealthy Planter, Fought in Civil War, Captured and Imprisoned in POW Camps Twice

My Paternal 2nd Great Grandmother, married Thomas Hatton Langley

She was a Newlywed in a Challenging Post Civil War War World, her daughter was widowed four times.

My Maternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Archann Dauge Marchant

The Good Life Disrupted by War

My 2nd Great Maternal Great Grandmother, married Durant Hall Tillitt

Born Rich and Married Rich