Family Friday: Anna & Eli Lockhart

This double portrait of siblings Anna Pherebe Lockhart (1840-1897) and her brother Elial Lockhart (1832-1861) was added to their Ancestry.com profiles by "debbiemcl" who is one of my paternal DNA matches.*

[Anna and Eli Lockhart, found on the Ancestry.com tree of debbiemcl]

Anna married Abdy Park Hampton (1836-1902) in Russell County, Alabama, shortly after the start of the Civil War. She and her husband moved to Florida** shortly after the wedding and went on the have six children. They both died in Tampa.

Eli, who never married, died in Tampa in 1861.




*The common ancestors we share are John H Hardy/Elizabeth Ward

[Ancestry.com]

Eli and Anna (using her middle name) were named in an 1857 list of the heirs of John H. Hardy.

["Alabama Estate Files, 1830-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RGV-32B?cc=1978117&wc=MX5T-7N1%3A314239401%2C315421601 : 24 August 2018), Russell > Hardy, John H (1854) > image 42 of 51;

county courthouses, Alabama.]

**This branch of the Lockhart clan appear to have relocated to Florida as early as 1850.


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Throwback Thursday: "The Golden Girls" Premiered Today 32 Years Ago

Screen capture image of the cast of "The Golden Girls". By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36043913

The classic sitcom "The Golden Girls" aired for the first time 32 years today!

I think about this show often, not only because it is one of my all-time favorites, but also because I've discovered through my research that many of my distant cousins spent their golden years in in the 1970s and 1980s in Florida after a life in states like Indiana and Ohio.  It is unknown if this represented their experience in retirement in Florida, but it's still fun to wonder.



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Fantastic Find: Lowcounty Africana

We've all done it--come across a genealogy website that is not only useful but gorgeous! That's what happened to me recently when a link from This Cruel War brought Lowcountry Africana to my attention.

[From the website]

Here's a description from the website:

Lowcountry Africana is entirely dedicated to records that document the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida, an area that scholars and preservationists have identified as a distinct culture area. Lowcountry Africana was developed with a grant from the Magnolia Plantation Foundation of Charleston, South Carolina.

Lowcountry Africana also includes information about South Carolina slaveholding families.

The search for enslaved ancestors requires research in the records of slaveholding families. In order to identify records of interest, you must first examine the genealogy of slaveholding families. 

Researching a slaveholder’s genealogy can be a time-consuming task, but fortunately, there are many genealogies for South Carolina slaveholders online. Here, we provide links to online genealogies of South Carolina slaveholders.

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Family Friday: Slater/Webb

This snapshot of my maternal grandparents Anna (Webb) and Harry Slater was taken on the beach east of Panama City in 1954 while they were in Florida to attend the wedding of their son James and Olive Rucker.

[Courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

[A pictorial map of Florida. 1954 by Sales Management Magazine. Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.]

[Panama City on Florida Panhandle, detail of above map]

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Sunday Drive: Car and Homemade Trailer

The title of this 1936 Farm Security Administration photograph by Dorothea Lange says it all:

Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near King City, California. Man and wife middle-aged, from Wisconsin. "Old Man Depression sent us out on the road ... You don't know anything about how many people are living in trailers till you 'hit' Florida."

[The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1936 Feb.). Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near King City, California.

Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/02f9f0a0-c5da-012f-f460-58d385a7bc34]

Check out the photos in the Tin Can Tourism section at Florida Memory* to see what he was talking about.

*The website of the State Library and Archives of Florida


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