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A Breakthrough! The Fendricks Family
Mattie Mae Springer I think the joy of having a breakthrough is so much more intense after you’ve been researching for years and years, because they are so few and far between. I had one the other day...
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Effie Fendricks and Building a Case for the Slaveowner
Effie Blanche Fendricks This is my great-grandmother, Effie Blanche Fendricks, who was born in Hardin County, TN, ca. 1891. She was one of 13 children (8 who survived). Effie married Walter Springer...
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Wordless Wednesday
I love this picture. It shows my grandparents on the left (Luther and Mattie Holt) going to a Halloween party in January 1958 with the neighbors. Great costumes, right?
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New Finds and Acts of Kindness: Ada Seaman and Mattie Holt
I’ve got a few new discoveries to report. First, Familysearch.org has finally blessed us Tennessee researchers with a Tennessee death index (“Tennessee Deaths and Burials, 1874-1955“). I thought I’d...
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Mattie Mae Springer Holt
Today I celebrate the life of my maternal grandmother, Mattie Mae (Springer) Holt. She would have been 92 years old on May 17 had she lived. Although my family has had to do without her physical...
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