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2009

November 2009
Louvenia Domer Stewart and Daniel Florence - information and many photographs; Nancy Kysar and Isaac Wasson Blake - with photographs; Stewart Family DNA; Graves of John Jay Wynn, Jr., and wife Callie Williamson; The Death of Henry D. Allen; 2010 Stewart Family Reunion.

2008

October 2008
2008 Stewart Family Reunion photos; Mary Francis Follis Seltz Remembered; Mary Magdalena Stewart Watson Allum's family record; Letter from Lado Stewart Brawner Dawson; Porterfield Family on Clyde and Mable Porterfield Stewart.

August 2008
Rollout of Picasa.com Family Gallery; Mable Porterfield and Clyde Arthur Stewart; Ellen Eliza Thrailkill and William Henry Coleman; Bertie, John William, and Artie Martin; Clyde and Claude and a Homeless Piano; Ira Vernon Williams and Avis Looney identified.

June/July 2008
2008 Stewart Family Reunion Details; Texas death certificates; Mabel Ruby Porterfield and Clyde Arthur Stewart.

April 2008
2008 Stewart Family Reunion Details; Corrections; Five Generations: Wells, Wadsworth, Stewart, Stevenson, Barnes; Farmer Brothers: Harry and Thomas; Sitz and Cannon Families: Tennessee Coal Company Store; Ragland Family Cousins Reunion.

March 2008
2008 Stewart Family Reunion Details; Mable Rose Ragland's Family Narratives.

February 2008
2008 Stewart Family Reunion Questions; DNA Test Results; Reading and Writing; Emma Roseanor Posey and William Wallace Smith; Sarah Drucilla Posey and Thomas Wyatt Beville; Lucy Ann Carruth and William Franklin Stockton; Viola Isabell Perry and Charlie Peter Sitz; Amanda Lavina Williams and James Harvey Maxwell.

January 2008
Martha Jo and Claris Modene Nabors; School in Desdemona, Texas, circa 1905, Clyde Arthur Stewart and Reuben Rabe's boys; Mary and David Highnote; Sarah Margaret Maxwell and James William Farmer and family; Joseph Henry Maxwell and Della Avery Stewart.

2007

November-December 2007
Reproducing Family Photographs and Documents; John Powers Martin | Found; Photos of Opal and Louise McCleskey; William Henry Coleman's Confederate Pension Record; The Henry Family Bible; James A. Morton Family Photograph; Sarah Madison Stockton Holmesly, with a Civil War Account of Marion Frank Holmesly; Booker Hays Married Mary Frances Maxwell; and Joseph Stewart Family Photos.

October 2007
Possible Café Press family store; Marriage Licence and Marriage Certificate of Araminta Domer Coleman and Daniel Stewart; Last Will and Testament of Henry D. Allen, husband of Josiah Ella Compton; More Confederate Pension Records: F.M. Williams, John J. Wynn, and Mrs. Margaret Jane Maxwell, wife of John Henry Williams; Family Reunion Photos and names; Photographs of Clyde Arthur Stewart, Unknown friend, and Mabel, his first wife.

September 2007
May 2007 Stewart Family Reunion photos available; Era Marie Williams Fitzgerald obituaries and photographs; Edna Goldie Rabe and Nealy Ambrose Morton family portraits available; LA City Library Finds: Albert Derrickson Dines on a Dog, Ora Guest family, and William E. Pitman family (with photograph); new Farmer family connection.

August 2007
Confederate Pension records for Samuel Oliver Stockton, William Porter Stockton, John Hosea Stockton, James Harvey Maxwell, and Frederick Seybert Posey, including a photograph of Frederick Seybert Posey; information on Marvis Wade Koon, great grandson of Sarah Jane Stewart, and his wife Velma Lee Shafer, including photographs; more information on the Morton / Stockton photograph presented last month; and a lovely photo of Opal Nell Henry as a young girl on her pony.

July 2007
Effie Ada Stewart and Larkin B. Stevenson; the Family Record of Mary Catharine Stewart with new information on Araminta Coleman, Daniel Stewart, William Stewart, Anna Stewart Dunlap, and John Martin; Lula Clifton and Dick Potts; Lon Parsons and Ida McAllister; Daniel Morrison Stewart Family Bible, and new group photo; Jeffie Stewart mystery; and Morton / Stockton 1960s get together with photograph.

June 2007
Reunion recap; Confederate Veterans Day; William Wallace Stewart and the Battle of Jonesboro; James Harvey Maxwell and the Siege of Vicksburg; Frances Knight Wynn | She Lost Four Brothers; Knight/Wynn Photograph; Remembering James R. Knight; John Hosea Stockton's Close Call; Finding Your Ancestors Who Fought in the War.

May 2007
Reunion update; Alexander and Sarah Williams of Benton County AR - parents of Amanda Lavina Williams Maxwell and Mary Tabitha Williams Guest; photos of John Purviance Maxwell and Martha Hammack, Alexander and Sarah Williams, and Amanda Lavina Williams; Henrietta Effa Posey Robertson and information on Buck Robertson.

April 2007
Reunion update; Narcisa "Sis" L. Compton Parsons; Roscoe & Jennie Golding; John Golding & Margaret Ann Derrickson; Dr. Albert Derrickson Probate; The Murder of Joseph Compton Watson; Lucy Ann Finney Posey; Aramenta Emma Stewart and Wilse Stockton; John Richard Stockton, James Edward and Walter Lee Holmesly; and a little more on Amanda Lavina Williams Maxwell.

March 2007
Reunion update; Swedish families - Larsons, Alexanderson, Petersons, and Kettilhult; Texas death certificates: Brawners, Farmers, Maxwells, Rabes, Williams, Fitzgeralds, Goldings, Blakes, and more; Henry E. Posey, daughter of Effa Matilda Stewart and James Henry Posey.

February 2007
Vintage Valentine's Card from Cal Stockton; the 2007 Stewart Family Reunion; Barnes Family Contact Found; Breckenridge Family Contact Found; more on Abbie Thompson - descendant found; Farmer Family Contact Found, more on the killing of "Old Man Chasteen"; the family tree of the Clan McDuck.

January 2007
Larson Family Holidays, The Autograph Book of Thomas Newton Stewart, Loula Effie Minta Posey Davidson, Catherine Florence Posey Johnson, More on Monroe Caruthers, Vernoy Cemetery, George Washington Sitz, Frances Esther Barry, the passing of Lou Cowherd and Margareta Jansson.

2006

November 2006
Mary Magdalena Stewart and Jack Allums; Edith Lura Maxwell McLain; Lora Viola Williams Adams; Maxwell Scott Williams; Caroline Elizabeth Posey and Isaac Range; Monroe Caruthers, or "Crowethers"; Joseph Coleman Stewart; and the passing of Edwin Price McPherson.

October 2006
My toll-free number; Charlene Larson Stewart's 70th birthday; photograph of Mary Catharine Stewart Wadsworth Florence; Allen Jess Compton - Found!

September 2006
The portrait of Daniel Stewart reframed; Mary Lee Wells, wife of Daniel Morrison Stewart; The Pool Family - Eula Pool married James Leonard Robertson, Everett Newton Pool married Edna Lee Williams; Oleta Phillips, wife of Clyde Arthur Stewart; contribution of Orion Morgan McLain; movies about genealogy.

August 2006
Family reunion recap; our trip to Texas and Oklahoma; a photograph of Araminta Coleman Stewart; and the skinny on the Compton family's links to the royal Plantagenet family of England.

July 2006
The Civil War Record of John S. Martin of Shelby County Alabama; the birth and death dates of Daniel Stewart, and the birth date of Araminta Coleman Stewart; and "A Nurse's Experience," by Mary Follis Seltz about her experiences as an army nurse during the Battle of the Bulge.

June 2006
The Civil War Record of William Wallace Stewart; Sarah Jane Stewart's husband John S. Martin, John Green England family of Mississippi; John J. Wynn Family and Desdemona Texas; and information on the upcoming Stewart Family reunion in Texas.

May 2006
More information on the Williams family; Alexander Newton Stewart's death certificate; Florence and Hatfield family photos and genealogies; and information on the upcoming Stewart Family reunion in Texas.

April 2006
Photos of Daniel Stewart and the Posey family, contributed by Bill Posey; information on the Stewart family's relationship with the Florence family, contributed by Julie Florence Morris; and information on the upcoming Stewart Family reunion in Texas.

March 2006
Additonal information on the Posey family including informationa on the Thweatt and Castleberry families; additional generations added on the William Stockton family; new information on the Doma and Newton Williams family; and a profile of Mary Gertrude Martin who married Franklin P. Knight and James W. Potts.

February 2006
Love letter from Cal Stockton to Charlotte Word Stockton, who will celebrate their 60th anniversary in June 2006; Civil War letter from Amanda Lavina Williams to James Harvey Maxwell; a photo of Emma Araminta Stewart Stockton; and the discovery of descendants from both the Hatfield and Watson family lines.

January 2006
First family newsletter: Found Edith Lura McLain, the daughter of Della Avery Stewart and her husband Joseph Henry Maxwell. Della was the daughter of Joseph Coleman Stewart. She died of influenza in 1919. Included, the divorce papers of Sarah Jane Stewart Martin Clifton and Nathaniel Clifton of Hopkins County TX. Many thanks to Anita Glossup for this contribution.

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