Long Ago and Far Away

I want this to be a forum for stories from our families about our parents, grandparents and ancestors. As much as I enjoy genealogy, I love the stories --- they may not be "factual" but they will be true. Please contact Jaclyn Morgan (Contributor) if you have any information.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Letter from Ellice 25 Oct. 1954

Cincinnati, Ohio Between the last set of letters (Oct. 1945) and this set of letters, the Grover D. Morgan Family moved from Louisiana to...

Friday, October 30, 2009

William Reed/Farncombe

While in De Soto Library recently, I was looking through their files and found this. It was a very faded copy---this is actually more reada...

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Tyrey Family on a Flatboat

This is an image I snatched from the internet, but I wanted to show what it must have been like to travel down the Mississippi River on a fl...

Monday, October 26, 2009

Tyrey Final Resting Places

After taking a detour around a flooded road, we finally found the Maness/Fletcher Cemetery. It was beautifully maintained with a well-painte...

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Tyrey Country

Linda (married to a distant cousin) and I decided to try to find the old Tyrey homestead---where Jacob Tyrey (my g-g-g grandfather) lived. ...

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Jaclyn Morgan: Mother of 3; grandmother of 8; wife of 1; sister of 2; cousin of dozens; aunt of 7; great-aunt of 7; teacher of thousands

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