East Armuchee Baptist Church [video]
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This video on the history of East Armuchee Baptist Church is a great one to share as we draw close to the one year anniversary of the Jordan’s Journey blog. Several elements in this film connect with things I’ve written about on the blog, such as Delila Brown ward (here, here, and here), some watermelon […]
The Mythology of Genealogy (or, The Stories We Tell)
Recently I wrote a series of posts on Delila Brown Ward (see here, here, and here). Today is a sort of followup to those posts, focusing on Delila’s husband, Alfred C. Ward. Alfred (or Alford) C. Ward, my 4th great grandfather, was a son of Absalom Ward and Nancy Ann Coleman and the grandson of […]
Hey There Delila: Mapping An Armuchee Valley Matriarch [Part 3]
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Delila Brown Ward has been the focus of two recent posts here at Jordan’s Journey. This will be the third and final piece on Delilah. I’ll end this series by talking about Delila’s beginnings. She was born in Spartanburg County, South Carolina to William Brown and Nancy Pruitt. According to the 1850 census, William Brown hailed […]
Hey There Delila: Mapping An Armuchee Valley Matriarch [Part 2]
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Last week I talked about Villanow and Subligna as the scene of my family tale going back many generations. Delila Brown Ward is one example among many of those deeply rooted connections (click the banner above to see a larger portrait of her). To show just how even a single ancestor can take you down […]
Hey There Delila: Mapping An Armuchee Valley Matriarch [Part 1]
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When I was growing up I always thought of the two sides of my family, mom’s side and dad’s side, as being completely segregated. Mom’s family was from Villanow and dad’s family was from Subligna. It seemed like two different places and that people from one place didn’t really know people from the other even though they […]