Tag: Taylor

• 1928 South Hill Men’s Bible Class Picture

  Elva Kidd White shared these two newspaper clippings with me. The first gives the year as 1928. The second dates the picture as 1920’s, but lists all the men’s name. Elva’s father is the one marked as “grandad Kidd”. For more information about Henry Kidd, see this previous post with his WWI military picture: Here…

  Julie Cabitto

  November 23, 2020

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  Allen, Bobbitt, Bugg, Butterworth, Carver, Clark, Clayton, Coleman, Crews, Crowder, Gill, Hines, Hodges, Holmes, Howerton, Jolly, Kidd, Ledbetter, Mason, Mathews, Pettus, Radcliff, Shaw, Smith, Strange, Tanner, Taylor, Walker

• Old Great Creek Jones family land

  Jones is one of the most common names in the world. Yet, all the Jones I’ve researched in the Great Creek area of Mecklenburg appear related. There are many cousin marriages between William Jones’ descendants. The family tree criss-crosses more than it branches out! William Jones had 1 daughter and 6 sons named in his…

  Julie Cabitto

  July 13, 2020

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  Barker, Burton, Clask, deeds, Douglas, Jones, Muston, Taylor, Thomas, Winfield, Wynne

• Tobacco-Mecklenburg’s cash crop

  I love this picture of 3 sisters linked arm in arm. I think they look adorable! I like to imagine from the way they look here that they were friends, and stood by each other through both good times and tough times. This is the only picture I know of, with my Virginia family on…

  Julie Cabitto

  June 22, 2020

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  Danville, farming, Gray, Kidd, LaCrosse, Moseley, Taylor, tobacco, Tudor, Walker

• DT Ridout picture & family

  Dave Ridout sent me this picture to share. A cousin gave him a copy, but they aren’t sure which of the two DT Ridouts this could be. One DT Ridout is David Thomas Ridout who lived from 1820-1876. He was first married to Mary E. Thomas, a daughter of Robin Thomas and Rebecca Jones. His…

  Julie Cabitto

  March 2, 2020

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  Barker, cemetery, Jones, Kidd, Murder!, Petersburg, picture-ID, Ridout, store, Taylor, Thomas, Tudor, Wells

• About Julie’s mapping project, can you help?

  I’ve been mapping out (pre-1900) deeds and plats that I’ve that been finding over the past 15 years. I’m still seeking plats. Many of the plats I found are from chancery cases, where the parents died intestate and land is being divided between the heirs. I got a few plats from a plat book at…

  Julie Cabitto

  January 31, 2020

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  cemetery, chancery, GPS, Hall, Jones, Kidd, LVA, mapping, plat, Rainey, Taylor, Thomas, Walker