Yesterday we (Us, Paul and David) got busy getting things out of the attic that we didn't want destroyed or taken. Paul had worked Sunday on burning old checks and said he had done 1966-2002, some of which were in the attic. We started on the attic again. Had to get going on it when it was still a bit cool. The oldest checks we found were 1942, but didn't dig into the bottom or may have found older. Most everything anyone wanted had already been removed. As a genealogist this Bible was a great find! It was marked on the front page as belonging to Great Grandpa George Washington Haynes and purchased in 1868 at a cost of $5. It's very dusty and stinky. The Old Testament was hardly worn, but the new Testament is in shambles. Leafing though, I was disappointed that there were no family pages of names, dates and etc. entered. I brought it home and left it in the garage, as nothing that stinky gets into the house! On examination I found glued to the back cover, an obituary of Oliver Drake. He was a brother of G.W,'s wife Phebe Drake Haynes and had died in 1889. It has the married names of Phebe's sisters, that I had never seen before. So more names to search!!! Always it seems with genealogy, any answer leads to more questions!
Yesterday we (Us, Paul and David) got busy getting things out of the attic that we didn't want destroyed or taken. Paul had worked Sunday on burning old checks and said he had done 1966-2002, some of which were in the attic. We started on the attic again. Had to get going on it when it was still a bit cool. The oldest checks we found were 1942, but didn't dig into the bottom or may have found older. Most everything anyone wanted had already been removed. As a genealogist this Bible was a great find! It was marked on the front page as belonging to Great Grandpa George Washington Haynes and purchased in 1868 at a cost of $5. It's very dusty and stinky. The Old Testament was hardly worn, but the new Testament is in shambles. Leafing though, I was disappointed that there were no family pages of names, dates and etc. entered. I brought it home and left it in the garage, as nothing that stinky gets into the house! On examination I found glued to the back cover, an obituary of Oliver Drake. He was a brother of G.W,'s wife Phebe Drake Haynes and had died in 1889. It has the married names of Phebe's sisters, that I had never seen before. So more names to search!!! Always it seems with genealogy, any answer leads to more questions!
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