This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Sometimes, it’s difficult to get a physical description of our ancestors. If men filled out draft registrations or pension applications, we might get some physical descriptions. With a photograph of the person, we might be able to describe their physical appearance. When we can get first-hand accounts of someone’s physical appearance and even some sense of their personality from remembrances that family members write, that is a bonus. Such is the case with Matilda “Tillie” Wollenweber, who married Frederick Henry Davey. [1] In a letter written from Marie (Davey) Korn to her first cousin, once removed, Ada May (Gorrell) Thomason, is such a description: “As I remember, the appearance of Aunt Tillie, she had...
Researching: Davey, Gleeson, Gorrell, Hork, Hutson, Johnston, Jones, Lundquist, Nilsen, Selman, Sievert, Sullivan, Tierney, & Wollenweber.