ADDITIONS OR UPDATES ARCHIVE

Reminder: On revisited pages, you may need to click "RELOAD" or "REFRESH."

BACK TO LATEST ADDITIONS OR UPDATES

2010 ITEM
Dec 17
Obituaries: Brantner, Glenda Ray (son of Joe Bill Brantner & Ethelene Johnson & husband of Mary Louise Havard)

Cooper, Ansel Leroy "Roy" (husband of Hazel E. Lee, daughter of Albert Lee & Sarah Evaline Brantner)
Dec 7
Database & website stats for 2010
Nov 20
New Groups: Benjamin Franklin Lee & Julia Ann Edwards parents of Wilson Buchanan Lee

Decater "Cader" Lee & Sarah Ann Lee parents of Benjamin Franklin Lee

Andrew Lee & Nancy Ann Wilson parents of Sarah Ann Lee
Nov 10
New Group: Wilson Buchanan Lee & Martha Ann Basham parents of Julia Lee Lemley (see below)
Nov 4
Updated Group: Archibald Sanford Lemley & Julia Lamar Lee
Inlaws of my sister, Irene Brantner Lemley.

New Groups: Ephraim Washington Lemley & Cynthia E. Brazell
Morris Lemley & Polly Mahala Johnson
Charles Thomas Lee & Erla Elizabeth Lemley
George Sylvester & Lois Lee Lemley

Nov 3
Obituaries: Brantner, Susana Loraine (daughter of John Mathious Brantner & Margaret Jane Johnson & wife of Albert Lee)
Brantner, Neva Rosa (daughter of George William Brantner & Olene Robbins)
Historical: "The Loneliest Grave in West Texas"

Oct 27
Two New Cemeteries: Woodlawn Garden of Memories (Harris, Houston)
Neinda Cemetery Jones County, TX

Added Petteway pics to Heards/Petteway Cem Page 18

Obituary: (Funeral Program) for Eunice D. Petteway Shelton

Oct 26
Ancestral Pics - New Family: Michael Micajah Petteway

Ancestral Pics - Updates/Additions: George William Brantner

John Luther Brantner     John Franklin Oldham     Charles Edward Oldham
Oct 23
Obituaries:
Brantner, Roy Leslie (son of John Mathious Brantner & Margaret Jane Johnson & husband of Florine Jesse Hall)

Jones, Rex Allen (son of Alex Edgar Jones & Emily Louvenia Brantner & husband of Laura Dale Jenkins)

McGee, John Arthur (husband of Joan Elizabeth Ballard, daughter of Hoyt Ballard & Madeline Oldham, daughter of John Franklin Oldham)

Aug 6
Major Update: John Zachery Smith/Hatti McKay Family

Aug 3
Obituaries: Arlie Boyd Smith Family Memorial/Celebration. (Arlie is the son of Henry Ross Smith)

Brantner, Emily Louvenia (1936) (daughter of John Mathious Brantner & Margaret Johnson)

Jul 26
Updated Group: Harbin Lafayette Smith & Martha Ellen Garrett
New Groups: Robert Isham Smith
John Frank Smith
Harbin C. Smith
W. A. "Bud" Smith

Bio/Obituaries: John Frank & Minnie Alice Smith and W. A. "Bud" Smith
Mar 15
Ancestral Pics: James Kegler Petteway hauling watermelons at Petteway

Leonard and Waldeen Jones White in the 1940s
Feb 22
Ancestral Pics: John Luther Brantner family

Feb 16
Obituary: Baird, Bobby Frank (son of Frank Pollard Baird & Naomi Smith)

Jan 12
Revised Groups: Daniel Roberts Thornton    Columbus Erastus Thornton

New Group: Thomas Peter Thornton (son of Daniel Robert Thornton)

New Gordon & Lewellen groups connected to the Thorntons - Start here:
John Gordon,       John Lewellen




2009 ITEM
Dec 23
New Groups: Daniel Roberts Thornton    Eral Thornton1082

Major Updates:Columbus Erastus Thornton    Luther Marciellis Thornton    Joseph "Joe" Thornton
Dec 12
New Group: Robert Alexander Carpenter

Updated Groups: William Jasper Carpenter, Wiley Frederick Carpenter

New Cemetery: Bourland Cemetery, Keller, Tarrant, TX (Carpenter)

Obituaries: Carpenter, Jonas Asbury "Joe" (son of Wiley Frederick Carpenter)
Carpenter, Cordelia (daughter of Wiley Frederick Carpenter)
Carpenter, Robert Lee (son of William Jasper Carpenter & Blanche Dallam)
Oldham, Vonnie Eupleala (wife of Robert Lee Carpenter & Owen Ralph Carpenter)
Pearson, Fanniebel (wife of Joseph Alton Carpenter)
Luttrell, Mary Elizabeth (wife of Aubrey B. Carpenter)

Dec 9
Obituary: Alex Wendell Fry (son of Albert Alexander "Ab" Fry)
Dec 7
Obituary: Added pic to Alma Janiece Boothe Murray.

Groups: Updates & corrections for William Albert Mckay & James T. Perkins
Dec 4
Obituary: Joseph W. Bailey husband of Lillis Ruth Oldham

More Cem Pics: Resthaven Memorial Park, Lubbock Lemley Family

Nov 29
Obituary: Juanita Jewel Gregg wife of Henry Gean Nunn, (Emily Brantner Brown line)

New Cemetery: Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Tarrant, Texas
(Carpenter, Matlock - Brantner/Dallam line)

Nov 21
New Groups:   Wilson Norman Lemley & Arch Sanford Lemley

Ancestral Pics:   Wilson Norman Lemley Family

Cem Markers: Resthaven Mem Park, Lubbock Arch & Julia Lemley & Virgil & Janiece Boothe Murray

Obituary: George Vernon White, Jr., son of Erma Faye Brantner White & husband of Mary Lee Wiley
Nov 18
Update for Andrew Hampton Embry family
Nov 16
Obituary: Wilson Norman Lemley husband of Alpha Irene Brantner

Minor update for Isaac Newton Snow
Nov 14
New Cemetery: South Park Cemetery Jones, Loveless Clinton, son of Alex Edgar Jones
Nov 12-13
For the curious, my Database and Website Statistics for 2009

Obituary:Beulah Arylene Branch wife of Ralph Lewis Brantner
Sep 6
New Group: William Simpson Mullen
Aug 29
Update: Samuel Becton Mullen, h/o Mary Elizabeth Smith
New Groups: William Peterson Mullen & Calvin Washington Guynes (Mullen)
New Cemetery: Winn Cemetery Marquez, Leon, TX (Mullen - Guynes)
Aug 19
Obituaries: Six Thomas Family (descendants of Andrew Jackson Thomas, Sr. & Margaret Elvira Johnson)
Aug 17
Name Correction: Mary Jane Brantner Johnson Dallam to "Mary Imogene" (See her group sheet for an explanation. Fourteen group, cemetery, and ancestral pages were affected)

(Don't forget to press "refresh" or "reload" on revisited pages!)
Aug 12
Updates: William Isham Smith and children, & Samuel Becton Mullen, Sr. family

Obituary: Carl D. McKinney (son of Mack Robert McKinney & h/o Ellen Mable Slaughter -- d/o Elmer Slaughter & Clara Jenkins))
July 27
Obituaries: Clara Ada Johnson & brother Donald Ray Johnson (children of John Wesley Johnson --s/o Thomas Peter Johnson)
June 21
New Group: Henry Hilliard Nunn (Brantner/Brown/Nunn lineage)
June 11
New Group: Hiram B. Smith (including Malinda "Linnie" Garrett)
Updated Group: Robert Milligan Garrett
June 7
New Cemetery: Belvieu Cemetery Rotan, Fisher, TX
(Browns, Garretts, Smiths from the groups recently worked on -- primarily
William Richard Brown and Robert J. Garrett
June 4
New Group: Robert J. Garrett
Updated Groups: Robert Milligan Garrett      William Enoch Garrett
Clarence Smith Garrett
William Clark Brown      William Richard Brown
May 17
Updated Group: William Clark Brown
May 12
I'm updating my Brantner/Brown line that connects back to my Smith lines. To date:
Updated Groups: Alfred J. Brown and Isham Felix Brown

I've added the Brantner-Smith-Brown Connections diagram.
May 4
Updated Group: John T. Comer/Susana L. Brantner
Apr 27
Obituary: Juanita Morehead Wife of Carl Leaman "Jack" Brantner. (Added to the earlier death notice.)
Apr 17
Updated Groups: Calvin Robert Brown & Alfred J. Brown

Death Notice: Juanita Morehead Wife of Carl Leaman "Jack" Brantner.
Apr 4-5
Obituaries: Four Greenlee plus Henry Gean Nunn... Brown family related.

Ancestral Pic: James Henry Nunn & Callie Lee Brown.
Apr 3
Updated Stephens County, Texas S.C.S. Ellis Cemetery Brown/Hodges/Ellis related.
Apr 2
New Group: James Henry Nunn - Callie Lee Brown Family daughter of Calvin Brown & Emily Sue Brantner.

Updated Group: Calvin Robert Brown Family
Mar 13
A Tribute: James Ivan Perkins Remembered
Mar 10
New Groups: Alonzo Vasco "Buddy" Hoover son of Alonzo Marion Hoover.
Lillian Hicks McCormick father of Robbie Jo McCormick Hoover

Obituaries:    See index for McCormick related: Jodie Spencer, Walter Hicks McCormick, Velma Dean Hawley, Nina Belle McCormick, Beatrice "B" Kidd, Blanche Irene "Boots" McCormick, Gussie Fern McCormick.
Mar 9
I finished opening 500+ web pages (html) and editing some codes with obsolete navigation links. I'm sure I missed a few here and there.
Mar 4
Welcome to my new site at BrantnerAncestry.com

Obituary & pic:  Billy Vernon McKay, (son of Walter Vernon McKay & Era Vay Hoover & husband of Leola Schauer
Feb 9
Obituary & pic:  Hubert Francis Jackson, (son of Hubert Sr. & Vashti Jenkins
& grandson of Bryant Freeman Jenkins)
Jan 30
Ancestral Pics:  Vashti Jenkins & husband Hubert Francis Jackson, Sr.
(Daughter of Bryant Freeman Jenkins)
Jan 6-7
Ancestral Pics:  Horace Shay Brantner Family Christmas - 2008

Obituaries:  Richard Leighton Brantner, (infant son of Richard Kyle Brantner)

Agnes Rybarski, (wife of Louis Pinkos & mother of Thomas Floyd Pinkos)
                 Agnes, 102, died shortly after her son Thomas.

(alternate obit)  Thomas Floyd Pinkos, (father of Sally Pinkos Brantner)

Jan 3
Ancestral Pic:  Serena Johnson (Cude), (c. 1814-1877) daughter of William Johnson & Mary Shye (Brantner/Johnson line)

2008 ITEM
Dec 29
New Cemetery: Resthaven Memorial Park Lubbock County, TX (Irene Brantner Lemley)

Cemetery Update: Oakwood Cemetery Eastland, Cisco, TX (Billie Smith Brantner)

Obituary:  Thomas Floyd Pinkos, father of Sally Pinkos Brantner

Dec 9
New Cemetery: Shady Grove Cemetery Upshur County, TX (Caffey)
(Somehow, this cem has been lost in the shuffle. The sheep is found!)
For the curious, my Database and Website Statistics for 2008
Sep 2
New groups: Benjamin F. Gage --- Abraham Gage (Hoover connection)
Aug 30
New groups: William Franklin Pierce father of Opal Mae Pierce Brantner.
John Kenton Boothe husband of Ina Pearl Pierce

Obituaries:    See index for William Franklin Pierce, Josephine Turnbow, Willie Fay Pierce Randall, Morgan Edward Randall, John Kenton Boothe, Mary Bell Pierce
Aug16
Obituary:    Flora Amy Fuqua, wife of Doyle Truman Fry.
Aug
I'm working on my older Hoover and Caffey lines with updates and new family groups. This will be ongoing for a few days.This link will put you in both trees: Abraham Hoover.
Jul 16
New Group: David S. Westmoreland (connection to the updated Lewis M. Fry group linked below).
Jul 7
New Groups: Lewis M. Fry -- continuing the ancestral line of Robert Eugene and Albert Alexander Fry, plus groups for several of Lewis Fry's children.

John W. Wilks --family of Washington Virginia "Jennie" Wilks Fry, wife of Alexander A. Fry. (Jennie's sister was named Idaho Wilks. I bet their daddy named them.)
Jul 1
New Group: Samuel Wright McKay & updated related groups
Jun 26
Obituaries:    Hoover, Billy Eugene (my first cousin) & William Durwood Crowder (Johnson related)
New Groups: John Berryhill Snow & related David Nowlin
Updates to Pedigree Charts 7 & 8
Mar 26
Obituary:    Berle B. McKay (1942-2008)(My first cousin)
Feb 23
Obituaries:    Nolan Ray Brantner (1954-2008)
Evelyn Venita Long Oldham (1917-2008)
Funeral program picture added to obituary for Joanna Marie Hackel Mitchell (1937-2003)
New Group Sheet: Willie Thomas Mitchell
Jan 28
Obituary:    Paten Willard Brantner (1943-1995)
Funeral programs added to obituary for Dora Valyne Slaughter Freeman
Jan 15
Obituary:    Dora Valyne Slaughter Freeman
Updated group: Elmer Edgar Slaughter

2007 ITEM

Dec 3
My annual genealogical database and website statistics
Oct 10 Obituaries:    Billie Delbert Smith     Milton Raymond Rae
Sep 3 Ancestral Pics: more John Wesley Jenkins family
Sep 1 New Group: Thomas Gordon Morris, Sr. (Jimmie Pierson Jenkins family, dau of John Wesley Jenkins)

Minor revisions to groups: John Wesley Jenkins (above) and Bryant Freeman Jenkins
Aug 30 New Group: William Henry Johnson (son of Jesse Johnson)

Obituary: John Luther Johnson (son of William Henry Johnson & Elizabeth Jane Greer)

Birth Announcement (1975): James Nolan Brantner (son of Nolan Ray Brantner & Geneva Lynn Currie)
Aug 10 New Cemetery: Splendora Cemetery Montgomery County, TX (John Wesley Johnson)
Obituary: John Wesley Johnson (son of Jesse Johnson)
Ancestral Pics: William Henry Johnson Family (son of Jesse Johnson)
Aug 7 New Group Sheets: for my maternal Embry line - start here:
Britton Edward Embry or Pedigree Chart 7

These go back six generations from me.
Jul 31 New Group Sheets: Britton Edward Embry & son Britton Edward Embry.
Update of William Alexander Embry
Jul 24 Obituaries: Ingram, Allie Dell (first wife of Billie Earl Jones)
Jones, Lora Price (daughter of Frederick Marshall Jones & Josephine Andrus & wife of John Ed Stephens)
Oldham, Calvin Shellman (son of Benjamin Franklin Oldham #874 & Emily Ann Durham & husband of Pallie Alma Poole)
Oldham, Edgar B. (son of Calvin Shellman Oldham & Pallie Alma Poole & husband of Agness A. Bates)

Major update of family groups:
Frederick Marshall Jones
Calvin Shellman Oldham
Jul 17 Obituary: Roland Truman Jones (son of Frederick Marshall Jones & Josephine Becky Andrus & husband of Sylvia (unknown)

Minor updates of the Frederick Marshall Jones Family Group
Jul 10-12 Minor revisions to Jenkins groups: Green Freeman, John Wesley, Bryant Freeman

Obituaries: Olita Faye Jones (Jackson), daughter of Frederick Jones & Josephine Andrus
Leonard Doyle Jenkins, son of John Robert Jenkins & Ellen Nora Johnson
Revised Obit: Twila Inez Brantner
Jun 26 New Cemeteries:
Dew Cemetery Dew, Freestone, TX - James Hirham Johnson & family
Post Oak Cemetery Freestone County, TX - Angie Johnson Gray & family

New Group Sheet: James Hirham Johnson
Jun 22 New Ancestral Pics for Thomas Jefferson Johnson family

Obituaries: Pallie Alma Poole Oldham & Ada Belle Rankin Springer
Jun 6 Cemetery Pics added to Terry Co. Mem. Cemetery Jenkins/Murphy family

New: Five Mile Cemetery, Dawson Co. TX - Duke, Garner, Petteway families
May 28 Cemetery Pics added to Enon Cemetery Bryant Freeman Jenkins family
May 26 New Group Sheet for Jesse Johnson

New Ancestral Pics Page for Jesse Johnson family (two children)
May 25 Corrections to John Robert Jenkins ancestral pics, page 2 and his family group
May 24 Obituaries: Irene Brantner Lemley, dau of Kay P. & Marie (Hoover) Brantner

David Ray Jones, son of Raymond and Mabel (Davis) Jones

Joel Lynn Petteway (Wedding announcement) son of Clarence E. & Myrtle (Swingler) Petteway & husband of Mary Elizabeth Galloway)

John Attis Williams (Bio) husband of Viola Ruth Jones, daughter of Waldron C. Jones

Ancestral Pics Added To: Waldron Jones Family - Donald & Terry Terrazas Jones

(Replaced pics for Sunset Terrace Memorial Cemetery, Parmer County, Texas

NM Lincoln - Corona Cem: Some digital wild flowers on little Bonnie Pauline Perkins' birthdate - May 22, 1914
May 1 New Groups:
James Henry Hall & Mary Jane (Wester) (Johnson line)
Matthew Wester & Martha Johnson

Obituary: Naomi Missouri Hall (dau of James & Mary Jane (Wester) Hall)
Apr 26 Ancestral Pics Added To: John Robert Jenkins pages 1 & 2

Horace Shay Brantner family

New Cemetery: Carroll Co. Arkansas, Hale Cemetery, Johnson, Mertz
Apr 25 Ancestral Pics Added To: Robert H. White - Minnie Brantner family

Thomas Peter Johnson family

Ancestral Pics - New Family: Waldron C. Jones - Mary Jenkins family
Apr 21 Ancestral Pics Added To: Thomas Peter Johnson family
Apr 19 Heards Prairie/Petteway Cemetery Pics:
Mabry Petteway-Nora Jenkins
James Kegler Petteway-Maude Marie Morton
John Griffin Jones
Apr 17 Ancestral Pictures - New Family: Peyton William Petteway, Sr.
Ancestral Pics Added To:
Peter Frederick Jones family
John Robert Jenkins family
Apr 14-15 New Groups:
Peter William Johnson (son of Mary Jane Brantner & William Isaiah Johnson)
Vernon Scott Johnson (son of Peter William Johnson & Effie Parrack)

Biographies for Vernon Scott Johnson & Effie Parrack

New Cemetery: Parmer Co. Texas, Sunset Terrace, Johnson, Parrack

Ancestral Pics for the Peter William Johnson family
Apr 13 New Group: Edmond Burton Holloway (son of David Edmond Holloway - Nicholas Hoover line)
Apr 12 Obituaries (index): Frederick Marshall Jones

Ancestral Pics:
Guy Jenkins WWI
Peter Frederick Jones self
Charles Edward Oldham son
Calvin Shellman Oldham son
Apr 10 Obituaries (index):
Hugh Thomas Jenkins funeral program (no obit)

Group Sheet updates for Owen Jenkins, John Robert Jenkins, Allen Walter Jenkins.
Apr 7 Obituaries (index):
Josephine Becky Andrus, wife of Peter Marshall Jones
John Robert Jenkins, son of Owen Jenkins & Adaline Mann
Clara Christine Jones, daughter of Waldron Constantine Jones & Mary Jenkins & wife of William Gilbert Ray
Johnny Rostelle Brantner, son of Horace Brantner & Mabry Petteway

Cemetery Markers: Zoe Petteway - Cecil Marvin Swingler
Fredrick Marshall Jones - Josephine Andrus
Apr 2 Obituaries (index):
Lucille Jones, daughter of William Ira Jones & Lula Mae Oldham & wife of John Murff
James Morris Brantner, son of Horace Shay Brantner & Mabry Elizabeth Petteway
Additions to Ancestral Pictures:
William Wilburn Johnson Family (John Wesley family)
Roy Leslie Brantner, Sr. Family
John Robert Jenkins Family
Horace Shay Brantner Family (WWII Honorees)
Mar 27 Obituaries (index):

Lyn Luther Rankin, son of Thaddeus Gay Rankin & brother of Melvin Clifton Rankin

Clyde Mae McCraken, daughter of M&M S.A. McCraken & wife of Lyn Luther Rankin)

Garland Wayne Rankin, son of Lyn Luther Rankin

Mattie Jane Wilson, wife of Thaddeus Gay Rankin & mother of Melvin Clifton Rankin

Melvin Clifton Rankin, husband of Ray Lillian Brantner (year of birth correction - obit transcription error)
Mar 24 Obituaries (index):
Madeline Jane Oldham Ballard Leonard, daughter of John F. Oldham & Ola Brantner

Dorothea Smith, daughter of John Harvey Easley Smith & Ila Grace Petteway & wife of Raymon Lee Brown

(Bio)William Lafayette Garrett, Sr., son of William Enoch Garrett & Mary Catherine Smith
Mar 7 New: Enon Cemetery in Wood County - Bryant Freeman Jenkins related.

Mar 6 More Ancestral Pics for Bryant Freeman Jenkins
and a couple for John Roberts Jenkins and William James Jenkins

More Johnson related markers in Mostyn Cemetery in Montgomery Co., TX
Mar 3 Revised Group Sheets:
John Wesley Jenkins
Bryant Freeman Jenkins

Obituary for Bryant Freeman Jenkins
Mar 1 Ancestral Pic - Mary Imogene Jenkins

Cemetery Markers - Allen Walter Jenkins
Feb 28 New groups:
(Unknown) Jenkins
Owen Jenkins
Allen Walter Jenkins
Green Freeman Jenkins
John Wesley Jenkins
Bryant Freeman Jenkins

New Ancestral Pictures:
Bryant Freeman Jenkins (Mary Brantner Johnson Dallam section.)

Feb 1 Obituary & Personal Bio:    Lee Oma Mahalla Hoover (daughter of Alonzo Marion Hoover & Ada Belle Embry & wife of Elmer Cross)
Jan 5 Obituary:    Hazel Elaine Brantner (daughter of William Eugene Brantner & Bobbie Yvonne Craddock)



NOTE: The Obit, Cemetery, and Ancestral links below are not yet revised. Group Sheet links should be okay.




2006 ITEM
Dec 15 New groups:
Clarence Smith Garrett,
William Enoch Garrett,
Robert Milligan Garrett (& Jeremiah Garrett),
William Richard Brown,
William Clark Brown,
Isham Brown, Sr.,

(Temp) Chart showing Isham Anderson Smith connection to Stubbs, Garretts, Browns

Also note September 14 below
Nov 30 Annual update of my database/web site statistics. (Okay, so I didn't do much in 2006 but celebrate my 70th birthday.)

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oct 19 Note: Email addresses are gathered from public sites such as this one, and sold to spammers. To prevent harvesters from gathering my email address, I've added an encoded java script for my "mail to." Added also is an image representation of my address. (You may have noticed that Ancestry.com uses a similar approach.)
Sep 21 Obituaries: Charles Lee Cundiff, son-in-law of Joe Bill Brantner & Ethelene Johnson
Sep 14 New groups:
Joseph McDaniel, Sr.,
James McDaniel, Sr.,
John Stubbs,
William Stubbs,
James Stubbs,
John W. Stubbs,
David M. Stubbs.
Sep 13 New or revised groups: McDaniel (Alexander, Alexander Sandy, Alexander "Alex," Moses Copeland
Sep 11 Links To Allied Surname Group Sheets
Aug 16 Ancestral Pics: More Charles Albert Luellen Family (Copeland/Smith) pics
Revised group sheet: Charles Albert Luellen
Jul 17 Obituaries: Delma Lee Brantner, son of Joe Bill Brantner & Ethelene Johnson
Jul 4 Ancestral Pic: Robert Hanley White & Alex Edgar Jones (husbands of Minnie Etta Brantner)

New group sheet: Judge Conger Rogers family (re wife of Leander "Lee" Brantner

Obituaries: Minnie Etta Brantner White Jones, Annie Waldeen Jones White, Charles Clyde Brantner, Doris Lyndal Porter Brantner
Jun 27 Ancestral Pic: Minnie Etta Brantner & Robert Hanley White
Jun 25 Ten new or revised Smith group sheets for the five generations preceeding Pinkey Foster, wife of Willis Smith. Link in at James Foster/Mary Ellizabeth Smith.

New Cemetery: Oakwood Cemetery in Comanche, Comanche, Texas (Andrew Larkin Stone)
Jun 16 Ancestral Pics:    John M. Brantner & Margaret Johnson (1926)
Calvin R. Brown - Emily Sue Brantner family (c. 1905)

Heards Prairie Baptist Church - Pencil drawing - 1876 (Heards Prairie/Petteway Cemetery)
Jun 7 Obituary:    Ina Elizabeth "Ina Maude" Oldham (daughter of B. F. Oldham & Ina Lummie Brantner)
May 29-30 Ancestral Pics:    William Wilburn Johnson Family Reunion - 1908

Group Pic: Mary Jane Brantner Johnson Dallam, William James Jenkins, Florence Johnson Jenkins
(Omitted
earlier)
Obituary:    James Morris Brantner (son of Horace Shay Brantner & Mabrey Petteway)
Mar 18 & 22 Minor revisions for Jenkins, John Robert, & Brantner, Roy Leslie, Sr.,
Mar 7 Obituary:    Mary Louisa Elizabeth Smith, (1839-1924) wife of Martin Smith - son of Willis Smith)
Revised Group: Martin Smith
Mar 3 Obituary:    James Ivan Perkins, (1915-1937) son of James M. Perkins & Alice Ester Smith (McKay - Perkins)
Mar 2 Minor revisions for Johnson, William,
Johnson, William Wilburn,
Johnson, Thomas Peter
Feb 23 New Ancestral Pics:    Johnson, Malinda Angeline "Angie" Johnson - William Wilburn Johnson Family
and Johnnie Benjamin Oldham in the Charles Edward Oldham family
Revised Group: William Wilburn Johnson
Feb 21 New Cemetery:    Earthman Resthaven Cemetery Houston, Harris, TX (Terry Lee Terrazas Jones)
New Ancestral Pics:    Johnson, William Wilburn Family
and an addition to Brantner, John Mathious (with WW Johnson)
Feb 20 Revised Groups:     Mary Jane Brantner Johnson Dallam,     John Robert Jenkins,     Waldron C. Jones     Elmer Edgar Slaughter
Feb 18 New Cemetery:    Knox City Cemetery Knox County, (Joe Billy Jenkins)
New Group:    Joe Billy Jenkins
Revised Group:    William James Jenkins
Feb 17 Obituaries:    Elmer Edgar Slaughter, husband of Clara Jenkins
Clara Jenkins, (2nd obituary) daughter of John Robert Jenkins & Ellen Nora Johnson
James Morris Brantner, son of Horace Shay Brantner & Mabrey Elizabeth Petteway

Revised Groups:    Moses Copeland,    Elijah Copeland,    Hiram Smith
Jan 9 Obituary:    William Spencer Campbell, III, husband of Stacy Lynn Hoover (daughter of Travis Bernard Hoover and Robbie Lou Earnest).

2005 ITEM
Dec 30 Obituary:    James Russell Brantner, son of Johnny Rostelle Brantner & Stella Mae Davis
Dec 3 For the curious: My database and website statistics.
Nov 17 Ancestral Pic:    Johnson, Thomas Peter
Nov 15 New Groups:    William Johnson & Thomas PeterJohnson
Revised Group:    William Wilburn Johnson
Obituary:   Thomas Peter Johnson
New Cemetery:    Mostyn Cemetery Montgomery County, (Thomas Peter Johnson family)
Nov 8 New Ancestral Pics:    Luellen, Charles Albert Family

New Group:    Charles Albert Luellen
Revised Group:    Leander "Lee" Brantner

Obituary:    Mary Wesley Shaunfield, wife of Seth Ward Brantner
Nov 5 New Ancestral Pics:    See Embry-Snow & Hoover/Stone Families

New Group:    Walter Vernon "Son"McKay
Nov 1 New Groups:
Moses Copeland
Hiram Martin Smith (William Isham Smith line)
Revision of Groups: Elijah Copeland, Hiram Smith and some of their related links.
Oct 28 New Groups:
Isham Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Smith
George McBroom (Smith related)

Of Interest; A complete listing for the Robertson County Petteway Cemetery (with annotated relationships) is now available on the county's RootsWeb site, thanks to Gerrie Dickens Yates (Brantner/Jones/Jenkins researcher).

It also indicates obituaries that are available from the Yates link on that site.
Oct 13 Obituary:   
Annabelle Rose Ellis wife of Ira Noel Snow. (Ped Chart 1 Hoover/Embry/Snow)
Groups - New:    Ira Noel Snow   Updated:    John Snow,   Isaac Newton Snow  
Oct 11 Obituaries:   
Joe Dell McKay son of Walter "Son" McKay & Era Hoover.
Valerie Gaye Davey Descendant of John Snow & Elizabeth Harvey (Hoover-Embry-Snow lineage).

(It was Valerie that provided the only picture of Cora Ophelia Snow -- my mother's mother's mother. See Ancestral pictures.)
Oct 2 Ancestral Pics Added: Elijah Copeland family & Unidentified Brantner Group.

Obituary:   Mary Imogene Jenkins wife of Waldron Jones.
Sep 24 New Group:    Thomas Monroe Smith family (father of John Zachery):
Updated Groups:    John Zachery Smith,   John Fitzgerald McKay,  
Charles Wesley McKay, Sr.   Albert Harding Smith,   Michael Micajah Petteway
Cemetery Pictures:    Red Mud Cemetery - page 6
Obituaries:   Leon Copeland (infant), Albert Fry Infant Twins, Gladys Mae Talley (Dickey), John Zachery Smith.
Sep 6 New Groups - Nicholas Hoover family:
David Edmond Holloway (Lucinda Ann Hoover family)
Ancestral Pics: Lucinda Ann HOOVER
June 20 Obituaries: Norma Belle Hoover Arnold
Billy Jack Hemphill (Brantner/Thornton)

Spur Memorial Cemetery Some new pics & updated index
May 28 New Cemetery:
Bluebonnet Hills Memorial Park (Tarrant County) Jimmy Eugene Smith.
New Groups:
Sarah Catherine Scott Families
Thomas Marion McCall (Scott Related)
(Also see Scott Ancestral Pictures)
April 28 Cemetery Pics:
Dickens Cemetery (Dickens County, TX) C. E. Thornton family.

Red Mud Cemetery (Dickens County, TX) Rearranged & added some pictures.
April 25 Ancestral Pics: Horace Brantner & Mabrey Petteway - 1920s.
Revised Group Sheet for William David "Will" Hoover.
April 22 New Cemetery:
Cache Creek Cemetery (Baylor County) Thomas Jefferson Copeland's Family.
April 21 Obituaries: Benjamin Franklin "Bennie" Oldham and Prentis Eugene Williams.

Revised Family Groups for Petteway: Start here.
April 19 New Family Group Sheets: Elmer Cross -- William Elza Cross -- J. L. Cross.

Obituaries:
Alvis Cecil Bilberry, Minnie Bell Cross, (Bio) Newton Bonapart Fuqua, Clifford Poole Petteway & John Quinton Read.
April 18 Reworked: Spur Memorial Cemetery: Added 20 Smith grave markers.
April 16 New Cemeteries & Pics:
Willow Cemetery (Haskell County) W. J. Jenkins Family
Rochester Cemetery (Haskell County) W. J. Jenkins Family
Lamesa Memorial Park (Dawson County) W. W. Petteway/Oldham
New Cem Pics:
Lamesa Cemetery Assn. (Dawson County) Martin Smith/Davis
April 5 Ancestral Pics: Willis Anderson "Toby" Smith & Martha Ann "Mattie" Copeland
April 3 Obituary: Rebecca Brantner
April 1 Obituary: Walter Alexander Copeland
Ancestral Pic: Walter Alexander Copeland (ref. Elijah Copeland family)
March 30 Obituaries: Warren Ray Cloyd & John Young Oldham.
Petteway Cemetery, Robertson County:
George W. Hand - Emma Oldham
James H. Prewett - Jewell A. Oldham
Leota Lilla Blaine, Josephine C. Bodiford, Lois Jones, Alton Jones, Allie Pool
March 28 Obituary: Barbara Jeanette Pitts Jenkins.
New Cemetery: Forest Park Westheimer, Houston: Leonard (re Oldham-Brantner)
Ancestral Pics: Alex Edgar JONES and Horace Shay Brantner
March 21 New Group Sheets: Alexander A. Fry and related.
March 19 Obituaries: (Smith Related:) Ray Story Finchum, Estle Eugene Hairgrove, Charlie Simpson Kearney, Earnest V. Kearney, Bessie Puckett, Avis Robinson, Rosa M. Skelton, Alma Smith, Floyd Decator Smith, James Herman Smith, and Walter L. Smith.
Revised Group Sheets: Willis Isaac Smith and related: Willis Smith, William Martin Smith, William Henry Smith, William M. "Billy" Smith.
March 15 Petteway Cemetery: Reworked picture groupings for entire cemetery and added three Wallace graves.
New group Sheet: Robert Marsh (Hoover related).
March 13 New Cemetery & Pics Brookside Memorial Park Benge, Brantner, Craddock, Gibson, Jenkins, Jones, Ray
March 12 Obituaries: Leota Lilli Blaine, Louie Dean Brantner (Burial record), Terry Lee Terrazas, & Royal Ray White
Revised Group Sheets for Waldron Constantine Jones and Robert Hanley White
March 9 Revised Group Sheets: Andrew Suttal Stone, David Larkin Stone.
New Group Sheets: LeRoy Madison Stone & Claude Brooks Stone
Cemeteries: Additional Stone pictures for Monte Vista Cemetery in Alamogordo, Otero, NM.
March 7 Revised Group Sheets: Andrew Larkin Stone, James Stone.
Obituaries: Kenneth Lee Jackson, and Sybil Leone Oldham.
February 27 New Group Sheets: Andrew Larkin Stone, James Stone. William Stone.
February 25 New Group Sheet: Issac John Jones.
Revised Related Group Sheets: Peter Frederick Jones, Alex Edgar Jones, Waldron Constantine Jones, and Charles Edward Oldham.
Obituaries: Harold George Jones, Ida Mae Joyce, and Jessie Raymond Gibson.
February 20 Petteway Cemetery Marker Pics:
Clifford Poole Petteway - Christine Monte
John Henry Petteway - Frances Louise James
Peter Frederick Jones
Ellie Price Broach Jones
February 18-19 New Group Sheets: Benjamin Franklin Oldham, Calvin S. Oldham,
Peyton Ignatious Petteway, Michael Micajah Petteway, William Webster Petteway.
Revised Group Sheets: Horace Shay Brantner, Charles Edward Oldham, John Franklin Oldham, Peyton William Petteway, Sr.
Obituaries: Hazel C. (Brantner), Helen Jeannie Callender, Clara Jenkins, Leonora Geneva Jones, Hilda Mae Petteway, Mark Ignatious Petteway, William Gilbert Ray, Ellen Mable Slaughter.
February 10 Obituary: Peyton William Petteway, Jr.
Minor updates for group sheets: Peyton William Petteway, Sr.
Updated info for Petteway Family Cemetery Markers.
February 2-3 Obituaries: Waldron Constantine Jones,
Artellia Oldham Wallace,
Ernest Dean White,
Herman Lee White,
Maurine White Bodiford,,
Vernese White Jackson.

Updated group sheet for Robert Hanley & Minnie Brantner White
January 26 Petteway Cemetery Marker Pics:
Ernest Dean & Eunice Bodine Leamon White,
Herman Lee White

Updated group sheets for:
Robert Hanley & Minnie Brantner White,
Elmer Edgar Slaughter,
Paten Willard Brantner,
John Luther Brantner,
Lee Brantner.
January 11 Obituaries: Eunice Bodine Leamon White, Nora Lloyd Brantner, Euell Mark Slaughter, & Johnny Morris Slaughter.

Updated group sheets for Robert Hanley & Minnie Brantner White
January 9 Group Sheets:Thirteen new family groups for some of the William Smith (1785-1957) children and related families

Current Updates Page Home