Family Story Matters

Image courtesy of Flickr We currently spend quite a bit of time in Nashville. My eldest went to college here where she met her husband. Our son moved here in 2007 and never left. He is now settled in a suburb of the city with his wife and two boys. Our youngest moved here in 2015 and remained in close proximity to other family members. And my one and only sibling moved here over two decades ago. At the time, no one knew our Coleman family roots originated less than an hour away. Cheatham County is a mere 50 miles from my ancestors' farmland. Coleman Family Tree With a fair degree of certainty, I have traced my paternal roots to the late 1700s. A probable list of my Coleman leniage looks something like this: Joseph (born 1770 - Amelia County, VA)   —-> Daniel (born 1794 - Amelia County, VA)  —-> —-> Joseph C (born 1824 - Rutherford County, TN)   —> —> —> James P (born 1853 - Rutherford County, TN)  —> —> —> —> William L (born 187...

First Quarter of 2022 we planned our first snowbird trip. We recently purchased a Class A motorhome and wanted to try out the RV lifestyle. We planned to stay six weeks on the Texas Gulf (in the small town of Sargent Beach) and then travel to northern Florida for a couple of weeks before returning home to Kansas. In planning this excursion, I noticed Sargent Beach was less than 200 miles from Franklin, TX - Mom's birthplace. I also noticed that we would pass through St. Elmo, AL on I-10 as we headed into Florida. Dad lived here when his mother was diagnosed with Tuberculosis/ This trip seemed the perfect opportunity to do some on-sight genealogy research.  Franklin, TX As luck would have it, I found a property just outside Franklin that allowed RV parking. I thought this would be a great opportunity to experience (to some degree) what life must have been like for Mom growing up on a farm.  We arrived around 3:00pm... set up camp... got a tour of the duck-and-rabbit farm ... an...