I feel so grateful to know something about each generation's personalities, foibles, interests, not just a name on a piece of paper. None of them was particularly famous or even notorious but they did write letters and diaries, some of which I have or have seen. And I had a grandmother who loved to tell family stories and with whom I spent a great deal of time. On Jul 11, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Jan Curtis wrote: > So fun....this is what genealogy is all about! > > JanC > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 7:31 AM > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > >> Once every few years I drive over to my gr. grandfather's Plantation, >> Green Plains, in Matthews County. I have really old photos of the >> place, of his wife and daughter, of the place before someone with lots >> of money gentrified it, sometimes even sit on the porch if no one is >> around and view the ice house where, it is told, his sister in law >> locked the Yankee soldier in. (Someone said that if all the stories of >> Yankee soldiers in ice houses were true there wouldn't have been any >> Northern Army left to fight) >> >> On Jul 11, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Jan Curtis wrote: >> >>> Anna - that's the fun part of genealogy! >>> >>> Years ago I went to Va, rented a car & drove all over counties there, >>> and I >>> went to the VA State Library. I jumped over streams & waded Rivers >>> in >>> King >>> & Queen Co., Spotslvania, Orange, Botetourt. I found a lot of info, >>> and it >>> was way cool to walk around my 6th gr.grandfathers original 5,000 >>> acres in >>> Spots & Orange...1732 land grant. Part of it was shopping centers & >>> parking >>> lots, but it was interesting to imagine how it was when Anthony owned >>> it. >>> >>> JanC >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> >>> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:28 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE >>> >>> >>>> There is an LDS Family History Center here in Newport News, VA. I >>>> have >>>> found some material there that I didn't have before. I had an >>>> interesting day: I received a letter from an old colonial parish >>>> here >>>> in Matthews County, VA saying that they had my gr. grandfather, >>>> Asbury >>>> McKendree Boyd recorded as buried at a small country church now >>>> known >>>> as St. James but formerly Trinity Church, part of a larger parish >>>> named >>>> Kingston. I'd looked for the Trinity Church but since it no longer >>>> exists as such couldn't find it. Today my sister and I went to the >>>> St. >>>> James (formerly Trinity) cemetery and after much searching, sure >>>> enough >>>> there it was beside his second wife, Mary Mason Roy Boyd. I don't >>>> think >>>> anyone on this clan ring is connected except collaterally but it's >>>> exciting to find something you've just heard about. >>>> Anna Grace Boyd Foster >>>> >>>> >>>> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >>>> RING OF BOYDS >>>> http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >>>> >>>> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- >>>> trees >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >>> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >>> >>> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- >>> trees >>> >> >> >> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- >> trees >> >> >> > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > trees >