Each October, members of the Rootseekers Genealogical Society have a chance to brag about the ancestors they have been researching. Whether they are Indian chiefs, beggar man, or thief, doesn’t matter. They are all interesting to us.
Charles Sanders led off talking about his grandparents. Harry Hogue was next talking about the first burial in the Payne Cemetery in 1878. Gaylon Patterson spoke of his seventh G. Grandfather who he found in Virginia. Jynelle Caffey was proud to announce that she had 15 G. Grandparents that she could take back to the 1700’s and that she was so proud of her parents. Glenda King spoke of her Cranville family that she found buried in a pasture. Carol Dwinnell spoke of old letters in a box and six books that she has written on her family and that was before computers and she is proud of her heritage. Nina Hendricks recently while on a trip to Georgia found some information on her Revolutionary War Great Grandmother. Her husband had been put in prison and he was cruelly treated and it made this grandmother so mad that she made a uniform for her 14 year old son and took him to the nearest Continental Army Camp and enlisted him saying he was more a man than any Tory, Margaret Ann’s Great Grandparents came from Sweden after a famine in their country, they landed in Illinois then came to Texas, Frank Stokes spoke of his research that he started 35 years ago, Mary Beth Haley spoke of her mother working in an aircraft factory where they made B-36 bombers
Tuesday mornings from 9:30 a.m. to noon some one will be in the library to help anyone who wishes to learn to do research. If anyone is interested in a beginners class to learn about family research please let someone in the library know. If we get enough for a class it will be announced in the paper.