Category: 1-2 Thomas Babb
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A Family Bible provides more than 1 Dozen Points of Proof
Family Bibles have long been used to record births, marriages and deaths of family members. Arene J. (Leggins, Babb) Gorton’s Family Bible is no different. The book was retrieved by one of her descendants while cleaning out her father’s house after his death. Before I get into the details of what this amazing find revealed, […]
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Homestead Progress
In November, Canjoe John and his trusty assistant Zach spent a good bit of time finishing out the new Protective Stone Skirt that was installed over the last year. While the stone skirt does much of the hard work, it intentionally doesn’t rise up to meet the logs. This is to prevent the logs from […]
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STOP THE PRESSES!!!!
In a moment that I never thought was possible, today I discovered the Christening Record for Christopher Hussey which documents the final missing link in the pedigree of Bathsheba Hussey. I have been missing this document ever since I imported Jean A Sargent’s work in 2004 and with the tools available I was unable to […]
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Some Good News
We can all use some good news and while this isn’t a major announcement, I feel that anything that changes the subject right now is a great thing. Last week work was completed on the protective stone skirt under the footbridge to the 1787 Seth Babb Homestead. In all the mayhem of helping my mom […]
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Merry Belated Christmas from the Seth Babb Homestead
I’ve been bogged down in the Pauper’s Cemetery project since the weekend before Christmas when an article about the project was featured in the Dallas Morning News. A flurry of activity followed and the project suddenly lurched forward. As things are starting to get back to “normal” I came across this picture sent to me […]
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The Cane of Phillip Babb
The owner of a Elk Horn walking cane has graciously agreed to share their treasure with the Babb Family at large. The cane is attributed to a Phillip Babb of Greene County, TN. We aren’t precisely sure of which Phillip Babb it would have belonged to, but believe it to be that of the progenitor […]
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Hussey DNA Results have posted
Back in October, I announced that the DNA Sample was being secured by a direct male descendant of Christopher Hussey. This was done in pursuit of the answer to an eternal question about whether his Grand-daughter Bathsheba, who married Thomas Babb (1-2), actually descends from English Royalty. I said at the time that there were […]
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DNA Waiting Game – Hussey Edition
Regardless of what the DNA says, one thing is certain. Things will never be the same again.
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1787 Seth Babb Homestead featured in Early American Life Magazine
I was thrilled to learn that Early American Life Magazine has an article on Seth’s place in their May/June issue. Since newsstands aren’t exactly common these days, I’m re-posting the article here for you to read. It’s a short piece, but they worked with the museum to obtain background and pictures from the Log Raising […]
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Women’s Liberation 2019
I have spent the last several weeks coming through 2500 photos of people in the Master Tree and trying to normalize the names presented in the photos. I recently posted about how cumbersome that is, but something else has struck me that I’d like to share. On a recent trip to Lake Travis near Austin, […]