Most of these families also had a great
grandfather who served in the American
Revolution.
Our
ancestors met in Alabama before the Civil War. They came
together in Montgomery sharing cotton plantations in the
fields you now see when passing throughMontgomery on I-65. Yet after the war this land
was worthless, being destroyed as Wilsons Raiders burned
a path through the state but these families struggled to
revive as much as they could. I found an old cemetery
with some tombstones dating back to 1793 on this
property and then tried to trace their descendants
across town. In 1900 I find them again in downtown
Montgomery near the train station as many others had
migrated into our lineage and they once again worked
together. In fact my mother in law in 1950 had taken in
the widow of my great grandfather when she had no place
to go. My husband's cousin Sue Carol on his
mother's side married one of my mother's Bozeman Cousins
and his father's great grandpa Thomas Carter was once
married to another of our Bozeman Cousins in Hope
Hull. Our families were always close, we
just did not realize how very close. My father
came from Kansas and married my mom in Montgomery in
1951, while he was stationed at Maxwell AFB after
injuries from being shot in the Korean War - his lineage
was partly in Pennsylvania and South Carolina before
migrating into Kentucky and Ohio and then on into the
midwest. Together we have dozens of grandfathers
in the American Revolution and the Civil
War.
