Tag: Rehoboth-Church

• Julie’s story, why I created this site

  I read my great grandma Katie’s research notes about my Virginia ancestors; things she wrote before I was born. Katie wrote about her mother Fannie Gray being born in Mecklenburg, VA and raised with her Dortch aunts and uncles in Kankakee, IL. (near Chicago) She also wrote that Fannie’s father was named Alginon Gray but…

  Julie Cabitto

  February 27, 2020

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  Gray, LaCrosse, Rehoboth-Church, stories

• James B. Jones adopted Tennessee Glover (1859)

  I was looking through a Virginia marriage record collection on FamilySearch.org. I found this record which completely stunned me! I had no idea! I immediately began reviewing my sources, and here’s what I discovered: This record is of James B. Jones giving his permission for Tennessee to marry Alvin Dortch. That he adopted her into…

  Julie Cabitto

  January 25, 2020

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  Cole, Dortch, Gray, guardian, Jones, Kidd, orphan, Poythress, record collection, Rehoboth-Church

• John Gray: his family, his land

  My ancestor John Gray was born in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland about 1810. It took me at least ten years to figure out where he lived in Mecklenburg. Now I know that he raised his family and farmed on Hall Rd, near Rehoboth Church, near a curve in the road. John’s birth year fluctuates as…

  Julie Cabitto

  January 20, 2020

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  chancery, Clary, Danville, Dortch, Edenbeck, Floyd, Gray, Irish, Jones, Joyce, Kidd, Land tracing, Lynch, Mayo, Moseley, Purdy, Rehoboth-Church, Thomas, Tudor