Wyatt Paul Gillespie, son of Jeremiah Gillespie and Mary E Gillespie, was born on July 15, 1865 in Amherst County, Virginia. Laura Cecil Donald, daughter of James Calvin Donald and Elizabeth Jane […]
Wisdom Wednesday — Wyatt and Laura
Treasure Chest Thursday — One Document Defines Them All
Some documents are like a really great Christmas, they just have everything in them that you need. This Deed of Conveyance 1 defines quite nicely Wyatt Paul and Laura Donald Gillespie’s children, […]
Tombstone Tuesday — I found my missing Stonewall Jackson Cemetery pics!
I could not remember where I had stashed these. Eureka they have been found! These are the tombstones for my previous entries on my Maiden Aunts: Harriet Ann Gillespie, daughter of Jeremiah […]
Treasure Chest Thursday — A Summer Day in 1944 at 108 Houston Street
This picture was found in some of my dad’s things: But who are these people and when was it taken? The boy holding the dog is my father. The woman standing in […]
Sunday’s Obituary: Maiden Aunts and Bachelor Uncles — Eva Dold Gillespie
We called her Aunt Bebe. My cousin tells me that someone from our parents generation could not pronounce Eva and it came out as “bebe” and that’s how we knew her. When […]
