My Trails into the Past

This is my second 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. In 1841, the Amos Gorrell family lost four members within days of each other. In 1840, there were six young children in the household of Amos and Leah Gorrell. Two sons under five, two sons five to ten, one son ten to sixteen, and one daughter ten to fifteen. Of course this census does not give names except for the head of household. [1] However, I have a listing of marriages and births, perhaps taken from a family bible. The note written at the top written in my father-in-law, George J. Gorrell’s hand states “Rec’d from Linnie Oma on 1-20-2000, probably the handwriting of Amos Gorrell.” Now which Amos Gorrell is not known, but perhaps Amos Jr. [2] From this record, I could place t...