Family History
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Editor’s Note: While researching another post, I found the National Park Service presented this report filed by Colonel Logan Henry Neal Salyer on July 6, 1863 from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Fiftieth Virginia Infantry was comprised mainly of soldiers from Wise County, Virginia. The name Salyer was prominent during my father’s younger years there. “The regiment… Read more
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My aunt was born on Sept. 9, 1941, 13 years after my father and ten years before me. Because of that, she seems a generation apart from her three brothers. Read more
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Family lore was we were kin to June Carter Cash, who was married to Johnny Cash. We had common family trees in southwest Virginia and for years, I called her a “shirt tail relative.” I descended from a line of Addingtons and so did she. I had an hour before having to get to the… Read more
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Mother sent this email on Aug. 13, 2000, after a family reunion in Davenport, Iowa. The Nadolski family reunion was held on the 12th of August, 2000 at Fejervary Park in Davenport, Iowa. The reason that park was chosen is that in the old days we often had family picnics there and when they where… Read more
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