Hope the world is treating you all well and that you are
keeping cool. As in the rest of the
country, it is HOT in the SC Lowcountry.
My computer says it is now 99 outside, and if you mix that in with the
high humidity, it is like swimming in mosquito soup out there. Luckily for me, the A/C here in the lab is
working like it is supposed to, and it is a nice 73 inside.
Susan is off to Tampa for a few days for meetings, so I'm
doing the bachelor thing until then.
Still have the mother-in-law, the daughter, and the two dogs to deal
with though, so of course I'm not totally on my own.
I find myself looking forward to the winter and the start
of Wolfpack basketball season... With
the NC Tarheels losing most of their team to the pros, and with the Duke Blue
Devils appearing to be at the beginning of a long slide down, maybe the
Wolfpack will be in contention this year.
We return all but 2 players and have an excellent Freshman class coming
in, so things are looking up for the 'Pack faithful.
I continue to work through the National Genealogical
Society Home Study Course. This weekend
I wrote a report on the Walls Baptist Church (Rutherford County, NC) records, a
copy of which I got many many years ago and still have not gone all the way
through. The last time I went through
the film, I got up to the time of the late Civil War and Reconstruction which
followed it. And it was really sad... In
the period of about 1865 to 1868, the records are nearly unreadable, because
the ink faded. It is just one indication
of the state of affairs in former Confederacy after the war. The church was either unable to afford
quality ink with which to keep records, or there was no quality ink to be
had. The writing is there... it is just too faint and faded to be able to
read. And of course this is the time
period where the estate of my ancestor Benjamin went into administration. It is my belief that he died sometime between
the founding of the church in 1844 and the census of 1850, and that his widow
Nancy died in the fall of 1868, allowing his estate to finally be turned over
to the courts for administration. I was
hoping to find some mention of Nancy's death or burial in these records, but I
am unable to read the appropriate entries.
Sad...
My next task in this lesson on church and cemetery
records is to try to map out several of the sections of the Walls Baptist
Church cemetery where Lovelaces and their allieds are buried. I've unsuccessfully tried to find records
online which would help me in this task, and I've written to the church to see
if any burial records exist for the cemetery.
I haven't heard back from them yet, but I'm not hopeful that any records
have been kept which will help me. That
means I need to plan another trip to Rutherford County to undertake this
task. Not a bad thing...
Well, time to go and do some actual paying work, I
guess. First, time to grab an afternoon
cuppa coffee [_]7
Y'all have a good one!
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