Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another assignment for us. Here is our assignment: 1) Which of your ancestors had an unusual occupation? 2) Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment on this blog, or in a Facebook post. I’m getting a late start, but here it is: Most of my ancestors and their collateral relatives had regular, not so unusual, jobs. They were farmers, carpenters, tailors, mechanics, housekeepers, teachers, secretaries, and ministers. However, I do have an great-grandaunt, Coreta Hutson Speed (my maternal great-grandmother's sister), who ran for Tax Collector in Comanche County, Texas in 1928 and won. It started out a sad story. Coreta’s husband, Bert Weaver Speed, was the Tax Collector until he ran for County Superintendent of Schools in 1924. He had to resign shortly afterwards due to illness, an...
Researching: Davey, Gleeson, Gorrell, Hork, Hutson, Johnston, Jones, Lundquist, Nilsen, Selman, Sievert, Sullivan, Tierney, & Wollenweber.