My grandmother died suddenly of a kidney infection in 1940. She's the reason for my interest in genealogy. Her death when my father was 4, my grandfather out on sea duty, shaped my father's life to the end, and mine, my brothers, and our descendants.
Hm. Pam Bondi's 2nd great grandfather Filippo Cagnina never became a citizen, in spite of living in the United States for 55 years. Here's his WWII era Alien Registration index entry. Born 10 Apr 1859, Santo Stefano Quisquina, Sicily. A1743787. Died 17 Dec 1945.
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This is great, thank you for posting. I love descendant projects in general but this is far worthier than much of what I do.
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More about Frances "Fannie" Byrd Barnes here:
Fannie's will provided for inheritance of an equal portion of her estate to her three surviving children, but directed that her son's share be held in Trust by his wife, in considerable detail. 14/14
Her membership in the UDC is perhaps unsurprising given her father's Confederate service. Although #RussellVought was born years after her death, his mother Margaret was in her 30s when Fannie died. So the Lost Cause ideology may well have been a topic her grandmother taught her. 13/x
Fannie died just a few years later in April 1961. Her obituary gave her name as "Fanny", although that's the only instance I've seen that spelling. It also described the length of time lived in Monroe a bit incorrectly. It included her membership in the United Daughters of the Confederacy. 12/x
In October 1956, Fannie's husband Temple C Anderson died. Curiously, his funeral announcement did not name her as a survivor, it only named one daughter and his sister. 11/x
At the 1930 census Fannie was enumerated with her husband, and their son and daughter in law. At the 1940 census they were enumerated without any other family. At the 1950 census they were enumerated with her husband's widowed sister. 10/x
In 1925 her oldest child, Roger, married nearby in NC. Her middle child, her daughter Clara, married in 1927, also nearby. It's clear that her youngest daughter, Louisa, lived for a while in Atlanta, perhaps with Fannie's sister Pearl. In 1929 Louisa married there, to a man who lived near Pearl. 9/x
In 1919 her father died in Atlanta, while visiting her sister. At the 1920 census she was living in Monroe with her husband and two youngest children, under her given name of Frances. 8/x
In 1907 she gave birth to her 3rd and last child, Frances Louisa, who went by Louisa, in Union County NC. It appears she was living in the then small town of Monroe, where she remained for the rest of her life. But I've been unable to find the family at the 1910 census. 7/x
In October 1900 she gave birth to her first child in Roanoke VA, where her mother in law was living. In 1903 her mother in law died. In May 1904 her second child was born in Norfolk VA, quite a distance from either Roanoke or South Carolina. Her husband was still working as a hardware salesman. 6/x
At the 1900 census her brother William J Barnes was also working as a railroad conductor, enumerated as a boarder, in Greenwood SC where she married the year before. The railroad connection would allow for later moves and ready travel. 5/x
In 1899 Fannie married Temple Cole "TC" Anderson in Greenwood SC, also a railroad town like Bristol. At the 1900 census they were living with her sister and family in nearby Chester SC. TC was working as a hardware salesman, her brother in law Thomas B Sale was working as a railroad conductor. 4/x
The family moved to Johnson City TN, about 25 miles to the southwest. Her mother, who had been in poor health for years, died there in 1889, when Fannie was 11. Some time after that, the family relocated to South Carolina. 3/x
About two years later at the 1880 census, the family lived in Goodson, at the time an independent town on the north side of Bristol VA, the twin city of Bristol TN. Her father was a tobacco dealer in a bustling railroad town. She had an older brother and sister. 2/x
The maternal grandmother of the mother of #RussellVought, Frances "Fannie" Byrd Barnes, was born in Bristol TN on the 3 or 30 of May 1878, to Andrew Jackson Barnes, a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, and Clarissa Ann "Clara" Kerin. 1/x
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If you're not familiar with the KKK's involvement with the Stone Mountain memorial, I strongly encourage you read up on it, and to ponder the possible role of the great grandfather of the future architect of Project 2025. 18/18
In July 1961 JJ died in Georgia. As I read his obituary, I immediately noted that he designed "several plans" for the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, and that he was "very interested in its completion". I cannot locate the book he wrote about the Civil War. 17/x
At the 1940 census, he was enumerated as a builder, and in 1950, real estate, retired. During these years he could have spent time with his grandchildren nearby, including Margaret, mother of #RussellVought. One wonders the stories she may have heard from his viewpoint. 16/x
Although I can find no record for JJ and Allie's marriage, on several occasions her children were referred to as his step children. Nonetheless they appear to have moved apart and JJ remarried again in 1932, to Mary Cornelia Dockery, in divorce-friendly Arkansas. 15/x
Sometime between 1920 and 1930, JJ and Ruth divorced, and JJ remarried the widow of his cousin William Edgar Flowers, Allie Josephine Sharpe. Around 1928, he was able to help his son JJ Jr start a laundry business, a good bet in booming Atlanta. At the 1930 census he was enumerated with Allie. 14/x
Without a doubt JJ gained valuable experience in this massive government project that allowed him to build wealth for himself for the rest of his life, and for his descendants. At the 1920 census he was described as a sales expert, contracting company, with his wife and 4 children. 13/x
This Camp Gordon was named for the same General Gordon as above. It was constructed as a war training camp. Not to be confused with Camp Gordon in Augusta, it was the largest construction project in Atlanta history to date. It changed the course of JJ's life. 12/x
Also between 1901 and 1914, he and Ruth had 4 children. In 1916, his widowed mother died in CA, where she had moved with some of her children and their families. At 1918 when he registered for the draft, he reported he was the President of the Camp Gordon Infantry Business Association. 11/x
JJ was involved in a string of legal conflicts. In 1905 he filed suit against Georgia Railway and Electric. In 1908 a bankruptcy for a department store, and in 1915 another. 10/x
In 1904 he created and donated a painting of Confederate General John Brown Gordon to the Confederate Soldiers' Home in Barnesville GA. Gordon died that same year, a divisive figure, as an outspoken white supremacist and likely leader in the Ku Klux Klan. 9/x
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