There’s a lot of information on this. The last three of four generations before dad ended up including a lot of criminals. When I found out his biological father, George, murdered his younger brother Noah and spent ten years in prison for the crime (I guess murder didn’t get a life sentence in 1932) I […]
This is the information I’ve been able to dig up on the Honeycutt family. I added information on the Honeycutts in other posts.
With the help of my friends at the Campbell County Historical Society I had found my dad’s mother. Eliza Jane Honeycutt born in April 1901, who became Janie Smith, and lastly Janie Cross. What I really wanted to know was who my dad’s father was. The ladies at the historical society warned me that in […]
Because of the story mom had shared with me I knew dad had been married and divorced before WWII so I looked for that while I was in Tennessee. According to mom the sequence was marriage, repeated infidelities by his wife, divorce, enlistment in Army, birth of child long after dad had disappeared from the […]
The Honeycutts Trulene and I started to search for Janie Honeycutt in 1920. Once again, I had no success because of being too literal. Trulene found her family on the 1920 census and discovered Janie was actually Eliza Jane. [table id=5 /] [wpdm_file id=17] Some things I noticed — Ida Belle was probably 15 […]
Link to slide show of photos and maps of the tour Dad’s address in 1940 There is a mine located across the street from319 Lick Fork Rd.and nothing on the 319 side of the road. I found out the mine is no longer in operation. I suspect the mine had housing across the street […]