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A Field Trip to Amelia County: Walking Through the Farmer House and the Lives of Our Ancestors
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to join my cousin, John David Morris, on a visit to the home where our 2x great‑grandmother Ann Octavia Vaughan (1844–1942) and her sister Mary Spencer Vaughan (1846–1881) lived after the deaths of their parents. The house—known today as the Farmer House—stands quietly along Little Creek in…
Ezekiel Dance – A Chesterfield County Militiaman in the Revolutionary War
On the Chesterfield–Amelia borderlands, where the Appomattox River bends through tobacco fields and ferries cut across the James, a young militiaman named Ezekiel Dance spent the Revolutionary War marching from alarm to alarm. Never famous, never decorated, but always present when danger pressed closest to home, Ezekiel’s service reflects the lived reality of thousands of…
My Blanton Family Roots Part 5 – Sorting out Richard Blantons continued
In Part 4 of this series, we untangled one of the most persistent genealogical knots in the Blanton family: the identity of Richard³ Blanton (Richard², Thomas¹), born around 1723, who married Johanna “Hannah,” probably Anderson, and later moved to Cumberland County, Virginia. For decades, genealogists have mistakenly linked him to a different man—one who married…
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