Sentimental Sunday: Carrie Blanton
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blanton, Chapple, Sentimental Sunday, Surname
It’s Sentimental Sunday at geneabloggers.com and this daily blogging prompt allows genealogy bloggers a chance to focus on a sentimental story or memory about an ancestor, or a wonderful family tradition. Carrie Blanton was born February 28, 1883 in Eagle Lake, Colorado County, Texas to Carey and Alice Bailey Blanton. Like her parents and eleven [...]
Tags: 5th ward, blanton, chapple, cook, eagle lake, family history, family photo, houston, laundress, maternal great-grandmother, servant, surname, texas
FamilySearch.org
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blanton, Chapple, Research, Resources, Surname
As you know, my genealogy road trip on January 1st was the result of my 2011 New Year’s resolution to return to genealogy and from some new information I uncovered about my grandfather (Joseph Chapple) and his parents (Louis and Carrie Blanton Chapple) in Ancestry.com. That road trip was very enlightening and provided me with [...]
Tags: 5th ward, blanton, chapple, familysearch.org, genealogy, houston, resource, texas
My New Year’s Day 2011 Roadtrip
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blanton, Chapple, Road Trip, Surname
Happy New Year! After enjoying a fabulous soul-food meal prepared by my mom who truly knows her way around a kitchen, I talked her into going on a quick genealogy road-trip with me across town in search of the community where my grandfather, Joseph Chapple (mom’s father), and great-grandparents, Louis & Carrie Blanton Chapple (mom’s [...]
Tags: 1910 census, blanton, chapple, family history, fourth ward, genealogy, houston, road-trip, texas
