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Category Archives: Family Tree – Moore Side
“Have Mercy, Lord”
Have Mercy, Lord: An original song by Melissa’s grandmother Geneva Henry and great aunt Stella Williford. Recorded March 17, 2012 on her 89th birthday. Happy birthday, Geneva.
Baby Boy Update: The Name, Ultrasound Pics, and Baby’s Gonna Be Here Sooner Than We Thought
The Name The baby boy is going to be Charlie Logan Jones. Charlie is my wife’s father’s name. He’s thrilled beyond words to have a grandson named after him. On my father’s side of the family Charlie Houston Putnam is … Continue reading
Photographing Tombstones / Headstones
“All those people. All those lives. Where are they now?” – Kaufmann and Hart, The Man Who Came to Dinner My wife is into genealogy, so we often wind up in obscure little cemeteries in the mountains searching for her … Continue reading
Restored Babe Simpson Photo
Victoria Infante of de la ber Photo Restoration emailed me this restored version of the Babe Simpson photo. Babe Simpson was my wife’s relative who was a bank robber and member of East Tennessee’s Clarence Bunch Gang during the Great … Continue reading
Babe Simpson’s Later Family Life
From Rootsweb: Jesse Edward (BABE) I May 1909-Knox Co Tn -23 May 1978 In Fries, Grayson Co., Va married Lillie Mae Stallings. Divorced. Married 2, Opal Jane Hayes Chamberlain, his brother in law, the Rev. E.R. Allicson performing the ceremony. … Continue reading
Ida and Rose Simpson
Melissa says: “The shorter sister is my great grandmother, Ida Lee Simpson Henry. She was my grandfather, Thomas Henry’s mother and my mother Jenny’s grandmother. Her husband was George Washington Henry.” Ida and Rose were Babe Simpson’s Aunts. Their brother … Continue reading
Jack Neely on the Clarence Bunch Gang
In Googling around last week for information about Babe Simpson and the Bunch Gang I discovered that Jack Neely devoted a column earlier this year to Clarence Bunch’s end at the hands of Knox Sheriff Wesley Brewer in 1934. In … Continue reading
More on Babe Simpson
Brandon Kincer responded to my earlier post on Babe Simpson: My grandfather’s brother Clint Rutherford ran around with Babe some. My great mammaw told me that they came in one night drunk, and they both had several thousand dollars. When … Continue reading
Babe Simpson, the Bank Robber in the Family Tree
Last week Melissa’s mother Virginia gave her some of aunt Marg’s old family photos and the stories to go with them. The man in this picture is Babe Simpson. Melissa’s mom knew that he was Melissa’s grandfather’s cousin, and was … Continue reading
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