Copied from Betty comment to Sister Patsy March 2006...

 Bored at work & trying to find something interesting to read.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23019010&postID=114161976132818524&isPopup=true

Well, I don't want to blog. I am uninteresting. I just want to comment. To post on here, you have to sign up. I have been resisting signing up...because I don't want to blog. But I can't respond to Old Sister, unless I sign up. You see I am the compulsive sister. I don't want to blog, but what if Old Sister, the philosopher, says something and I want to comment. I can't comment...because I won't sign up. Because I don't want to blog. I don't want you to know about me. I am Sister Three--the Sweet Sister. First, there was Old Sister, the Philosopher. Then second, came Smart Sister--the one who got all the brains. Also, woman of few words. Then came me--Sweet Sister. I "get along". You had to when you were in the Middle--between Old Sister, the philosopher, and Smart Sister--who had all the brains. Last came Final Sister--Baby Sister. She got the clean genes. When you look at her blog you can see--her house is clean. The clean genes came from our Mother. Old Sister got the slob genes--look at her yard, look at her house--you can see the slob gene. Sweet Sister--me--I got the slob gene too. But I "get along" I don't want you to see my chicken pen--yes--I have one. I don't want you to see my house. None of that "home party" stuff is on my walls. They are bare and  books are piled in the floor. I am the compulsive one. And I do not want to blog--but I want to comment. I want to say sweet things to Old Sister the philosopher. 

On the slob gene--which Old Sister, Smart Sister and Sweet Sister all have--there is a mutation called the "love to read" strand. All the slob sisters, love to read--now not fiction--but real stuff like a good biography. I am compulsive and I don't want to blog. I don't want to "sign up", but I want to have my say. I want to say sweet things to Old Sister! I can't unless I sign up.

You will know the Sisters if you read this blog. First, Old Sister, the philosopher, next, Smart Sister--woman of few words, then me, Sweet Sister, and finally Baby Sister, the one who got the only clean gene in our DNA chart.

I am compulsive--if I give in and sign up---I will be blogging. It will be long. No one will want to read it. I want to "get along". I want to comment to Old Sister and Baby Sister.

I am not going to sign up. I am not going to blog. I am going to keep quiet. Old sister is crazy. Who reads this stuff? I am not going to comment. I am not going to sign up. I will not blog. I will not let you see I have the slob gene.

Oh, don't mess with Old Sister or Baby Sister. We are like a wolf pack. We may steal the other Sister's next meal--but we will attack if any of the Sisters are threatened in any way. With our variety of genetic make-ups, we are dangerous...we have the wisdom, Old Sister. We have the brains, Smart Sister. We can type fast, Sweet educated Sister. We can clean up a mess and no one will ever know what happened--Baby Clean Sister.

Oh, I am not commenting. I will not sign up. I will not blog. I will not!! Don't expect me to say anything. I will not get hooked on this blogging thing.

I will not sign up.

Manuel’s Story Part 2

 Next part of Manuel’s Story.

Marie’s Son

 Manuel wanted me to share this.  He’s Marie’s son.

He Has a Name

 Henry H. Hilton—right time and right place in this universe to connect me to my cousin Shelby 160 years later.

Battle of Booneville

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Battle of Booneville
Part of the American Civil War
Date July 1, 1862 Location Booneville, Mississippi Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States	Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
Henry W. Halleck Philip Sheridan	P.G.T. Beauregard James R. Chalmers
Strength
4,700
Casualties and losses
1 killed, 24 wounded, 16 missing	65 killed

The Battle of Booneville was fought on July 1, 1862, in Booneville, Mississippi, during the American Civil War. It occurred in the aftermath of the Union victory at the Battle of Shiloh and within the context of Confederate General Braxton Bragg's efforts to recapture the rail junction at Corinth, Mississippi, 20 miles (32 km) north of Booneville.

Battle

After the Union Army victory at Shiloh, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck moved his forces slowly toward Corinth, an important rail center. By May 25, 1862, after traveling 5 miles (8.0 km) in three weeks, Halleck was positioned to lay siege to the town. But on May 29, the Confederate forces under General P.G.T. Beauregard slipped away undetected and moved toward Tupelo, Mississippi. In late June, Halleck ordered his forces south and learned that the Confederates, by then under Bragg, were advancing toward Corinth. The 31-year-old Union Col. Philip Sheridan established a fortified position to the south at Booneville on June 28 to await the Confederate attack.

Lead elements of 4,700 troops under the Confederate Brig. Gen. James R. Chalmers, who was also 31 years old, encountered Sheridan's pickets on the morning of July 1, three and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) to the southwest of Corinth. The pickets fell back and established a sound defensive line at the intersection of the roads from Tupelo and Saltillo. Aided by the superiority of their new Colt revolving rifles, the line withstood the initial Confederate assault before withdrawing to a backup position 2 miles (3.2 km) closer to the town.

Chalmers' effort to turn the left flank of this new line was thwarted when Sheridan's main force joined the battle. The bulk of the Union force stayed on the defensive while Sheridan sent the 2nd Michigan Cavalry under Capt. Russell Alexander and the 2nd Iowa Cavalry under Lt. Col. Edward Hatch to attack the Confederate rear and left flank, respectively. The cavalry forces pushed Chalmers to retreat and Sheridan called off the pursuit after 4 miles (6.4 km), when his fatigued troops encountered swampy terrain.

Aftermath

Sheridan estimated that Chalmers lost 65 troops killed in the battle; Federal casualties were one dead, 24 wounded, and 16 missing. Due to the battle, Bragg delayed his offensive strategy for Corinth, allowing Halleck additional time to unite his troops.

Booneville is in Prentiss County, Mississippi, directly below Corinth, Alcorn County, Mississippi where Hilton was discarged because of a disibility in August 1962.

This was all part of the Grant's efforts to sieze Vicksburg, the major Mississippi port. 

The Morton family at this time was in Yazoo County, Mississipp down by Vicksburg. 

Here http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/emancipation/text5/hughes.pdf

Is a link containing excerpts from a slave's account of living in the Corinth area during the time Henry Hilton was there with the Union Army.

Searching for the unnamed...

 Sister Betty and I have been trying to help an new found African-American search for her family history.  This is our first experience extensively searching ancestry for African-American records.  Records prior to 1870 rarely list any identifying information for Black families, not even their names.  

Here are some ways we have found to search Ancestry.com for records prior to 1870.

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/catalog/?title=slave

will search records that have the word slave in the name of the record

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1944/

This will search records of the slave narratives.  I am guessing 1944 is the year.  There do not seem to be other years included in these scans... 

Here https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

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1950 Good News/Bad News

 The good news is, if you know where your ancestor lived in 1950, you can go right now, today, and look at their 1950 census image at our National Arcives website, here https://1950census.archives.gov/ .

The website is quick and efficeint.

The bad news? My family, Daddy, Mamma and there children are not on this census. When I looked at the map of Coin Township at Ancestry, I did not see our house marked.  I find the neighbors, Watson Leathers and Flint Stone, but the road to our house is not marked on the map.

The large yellow circle is the main road out by Dan Norton's. The two houses on this road are Watson Leathers and Flint stone.  The orange dot is the location of our house that I added.

The small yellow circle is Melton and Gerty Powell.  They are on the census living on Powell Road.

If you want to have some fun, go look for your family in 1950. I hope your luck is better than mine.

1950

 Tomorrow is a big day for all interested in genealogy.  The 1950 census will be released and several of us will be listed.   According to the "72-Year Rule," the National Archives releases census records to the general public 72 years after Census Day. As a result, the 1930 census records were released April 1, 2002, and the 1940 records were released April 2, 2012. The 1950 census records will be released in April 2022.   72 years was considered an average lifespan, but in 2020 the average in the United States was over 78 years.  Our country has been conducting censuses every 10 years since 1790.  All this data still exits.  The 1890 census was destroyed by fire and that record is gone.  The 1950 census collected the following information from all respondents:  address, whether house is on a farm, name, relationship to head of household, race, sex, age, marital status, birthplace, if foreign born, whether naturalized, employment status, hours worked in week, occupation, industry and class of worker.

My family is living in the area I painted red.  I think I my kicking in my Mother and not yet born.