Image created using AI at Canva.com (which is why the detective seems to only have 3 fingers per hand) The mystery from the post Who are these People has been solved! The remaining subject of the circa 1890 photo of the Brinkman family has been identified. A contact on Ancestry.com, discovered through the DNA of my wife,… Continue reading A Mystery Solved
Author: Jeff Damron
Genealogist, husband, father, grandfather, hillbilly, retired attorney, photographer, writer, reader, Monday crossword puzzle solver, gamer, omnivore, and spiritual seeker. Not a fan of labels. But I do love irony.
Brinkman Family Summary
First Generation Brinkman Family, ca. 1880. Seated – Lewis Edward Brinkman, Catherine (Myers) Brinkman, Frederick “Fred” Brinkman, and George F. Brinkman. Standing – believe Emily in center, with brothers Henry J. and John W. Brinkman on either side. Here's a writing that only a family historian could love; dense with facts and very short on… Continue reading Brinkman Family Summary
Who are these People?
Often, it seems that the answer to every question about family history includes the seed of at least one more subject to research. For example, my wife, Ann, came into possession of a set of old family photos about twenty years ago. These belonged to her mother. Ann wanted to give the pictures to her… Continue reading Who are these People?
Moses D. Damron, Union Soldier, Postmaster, Farmer
Prologue At 5 o'clock on the morning on November 8, 1861, U.S. Navy Lieutenant William O. Nelson, who had been charged with clearing Eastern Kentucky of the Confederate Army, marched out of Prestonsburg toward Piketon ( now Pikeville), Kentucky. With him was part of the Second, the Twenty-First and the Fifty-Ninth Ohio Regiments, the Sixteenth… Continue reading Moses D. Damron, Union Soldier, Postmaster, Farmer
A Few Words about Lawyer Frank
Although generally known as “Lawyer Frank,” my paternal grandfather’s full name was Franklin Pierce Hall. He was named after what many consider possibly the worst U.S. president ever, by a father who bore the name of one of the most beloved presidents - George Washington Hall.1 A cousin described Frank once as a "fair but… Continue reading A Few Words about Lawyer Frank
Jeff Damron Genealogy 