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Thriller Thursday - The Murder Of Starling Ricker
Thriller Thursday is a daily blogging prompt used by many genealogy bloggers on Geneabloggers.com to help them post content on their sites. Are there murders, bizarre accidents or other thrilling...
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Why brine a turkey? How do you do it? What do you include in a brine solution? When do you brine? This answers these questions.You can use a 5 gallon bucket, a large cooler, the super large plastic...
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Turkey Brine
Brining Your TurkeySalt changes the structure of the muscle tissues in the meat, allowing it to swell and absorb water and flavorings. It also breaks down the proteins, resulting in a tender-seeming...
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Musgrove Mill State Park Patriot's In Petticoats Special Event
Our NSDAR Kate Barry Chapter met at Musgrove Mill State Park this month during their Patriot's In Petticoats special event. We brought our own picnics and had our October meeting. The weather was...
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Dark Corner of South Carolina
The land of present-day Greenville was once the hunting ground of the Cherokee which was forbidden to colonists.There were various treaties where the Cherokee ceded their hunting lands to the white...
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Fall Scrapbook Pages
Our grandniece and grandnephew were taken to a little farm Fall event by their grandparents this weekend. They shared some pictures and I made these digital scrapbook pages using them.Here is...
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Thriller Thursday - Murder Of A Beauty Queen
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Going To The Fair
Our county Fair this year was last week. Most of my husband's family got together to take the grandchildren (our grandnieces and grandnephews). I didn't get to go because I wasn't up to it. But Stan...
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Pride and Humility
The Christian church has listed pride as one of the seven deadly sins. Pride - Pride is a feeling that you respect yourself and deserve to be respected by other people; a high or inordinate opinion of...
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In This Political Atmosphere Keep Out Envy And Strife
James 3:16-18 (Modern King James Version - MKJV) For where envying and strife are, there is confusion and every foul deed. (17) But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable,...
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Frankincense And Myrrh
Matthew 2:1-13a (Easy To Read Version - ERV) Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea during the time when Herod was king. After Jesus was born, some wise men from the east came to Jerusalem....
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Nimrod Lundsford and Mary Morris Polly Stafford
Nimrod Lunsford and Mary Polly Stafford had a daughter named......Nancy Rebecca Lunsford who married William Hanes Reese and they had a son named.........Bailey Bright Reese who married Lillian Vianna...
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Mystery Monday - Matthew Bascomb "Bass" Lunsford and Hettie Mae Holloway
Matthew Bascomb "Bass" Lunsford was born 1/5/1878 in Macon County, NC to John H. Lunsford and Mary Matilda Pendergrass. He married Hettie Mae Holloway (aka Hattie Mae Holloway). Hettie was born...
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A Sad Story - Edward Shafter Scroggins and Hettie Jewel Dickson
I came across a sad story in working with my genealogy. This young man is not related to me. But the story was so sad that I put together his story.Edward Shafter Scroggins, Sr. (aka Ed Scroggins,...
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A Sad Story - Freeble Burl Dare and Berdie Lorine Freeman
The common ancestor that I have with Birdie Lorene Freeman is Isaac Freeman and Spicy Freeman. They would have been Birdie's great grandparents. They would have been my 4 great grandparents.Berdie...
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Tragic Story About Norman F. Bowen
William "Billy" Reese (DOB About 1800 in Spartanburg County, SC; DOD 5/29/1863 in Madison County, NC) married Mary "Polly" Jane Freeman (DOB About 1801 in Henderson County, NC; DOD 2/1884 in Madison...
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Mystery Monday - Cecil Christy Patrick, Sr. and Lean Marie Allen
This family is NOT related to me by blood but I came across their story while working on one of my Reese lines. Here is how I came into it:William "Billy" Reese (DOB About 1800 in Spartanburg County,...
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Mystery Monday - William Alexander Craigo and Samantha Wilson
I am related to this family very distantly. I was researching William "Billy" Rees and his children when I came across this story.William "Billy" Reese (DOB About 1800 in Spartanburg County, SC; DOD...
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Eliga Arwood
I'm very distantly related to Eliga Arwood. Our common ancestor was Nathan Marmaduke Lamb and Orpha Rollins. My direct ancestor was John Rollins Lamb and Eliga Arwood's direct ancestor was John Rollins...
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Officer Down - The Story Of The Murder Of Thomas Hunter Rollins In The Line...
I am not related to Thomas Hunter Rollins. I was working on my ancestors, Nathan Marmaduke Lamb and Orpha Rollins when I came across his tragic story. Marmaduke Lamb and Orpha Rollins had a son that...
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