Genealogy tip: Do you have an elusive ancestor that may have been mentioned once or twice in a census and then disappears? This can be frustrating, especially when it’s your direct line. Here are some tips to try to find your ancestor again. Elusive Ancestors…. Create a timeline for the ancestor based on the facts […]
Buttermilk is the liquid left behind after churning butter out of cream. “Before cream could be skimmed from whole milk, the milk was left to sit for a period of time to allow the cream and milk to separate. During this time, naturally occurring lactic acid-producing bacteria in the milk fermented it. This facilitates the […]
GEORGE AMASON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY Sumter County, Alabama b. ca. 1820 George Amason was a planter and a native of this State, details of his birth and ancestry are not available. He was a bachelor who represented Sumter County in the house, 1847. Garret says of him in “Public men of Alabama,” p. 498, that […]
WILEY/WYLIE W. MASON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1800-1870) Georgia, Coosa and Macon Counties (Excerpt from History of Coosa County: by the Rev. George Evans Brewer, 1887) Another man who rose to prominence in the early history of Coosa, was Wiley W. Mason, another native of Georgia, and graduate of her University. He came to Wetumpka […]
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