Family History

For my family history, I've found most of my dad's side of the family. My grandmother and I sat down, from there she pulled papers out that went back to her great grandfather. This is my great great great grandfather. On the piece paper were his kids. He and his wife had four children. The first was born in 1839. The youngest was born 1849. Everyone was born in eastern North Carolina. Not sure exactly was city at the time. On my dads' side of the family, we are part Irish, Welsh, and English. Not sure where ties in at, but that is in our heritage. We only have back until the 1840s.

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My great great grandfather and his wife had seven children. One of which was my great grandfather, the father of my grandmother. My grandmother's father was born on May 18, 1886. He was from Eastern North Carolina. My grandmother had six brothers and sisters. Two of them died as infants. My grandmother was born in Moyock, North Carolina. She (grandmother) was born on September 19, 1929.

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My grandfather, who died in February 1998 was born in Windsor, North Carolina. He (grandfather) was in the Navy. Before retiring from the Navy, my grandparents had four children, three girls (my aunts) and one boy (my father). All three of my aunts were born in Portsmouth, Virginia. My father was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. My father is the youngest of all the children. After all the kids were born, my grandfather retired from the Navy and took a job in Gainesville, Georgia.

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Gainesville is where most of my family now resides. I was born in Gainesville, along with three of my cousins. My sister was born in California. Two of our cousins were born overseas. One is adopted from China. The other was born in Okanawa, a Japanese territory, but at the time it was a territory of the United States. I had a cousin who died at 22-months old. He would've been the third oldest out of all the cousins. Now in 2011, my grandmother has seven great grandchildren. Three of my cousins have children, and my sister has a little girl.




On my mothers' side of the family, I have two more nationalities from this side. They are German and French. My grandmother (My moms' mother) helped me with this side of the family. Her dad was of German descent (My great-great-great grandfather) and the French descent comes in somewhere around her great great grandmother. My grandmother is originally from Kansas. She was born on September 5, 1940, but in 1955 she moved to California and has been there ever since. My mom is from California, along with my sister. My moms' dad (my grandfather) was born in Gainesville on March 3, 1935. He died in February of 1999. I do not have any information about just his side of the family. Most of the information pertains to my grandmothers' side of the family.


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My grandmother was able to trace her family history all the way back to my great-great-great-great grandparents. They were born in 1837 and 1838. My relatives come from different states. Kentucky, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and California.

My two great aunts (my grandmother's sisters') live in California. My aunt and my two cousins also live in California. When I flew out there this summer, I was able to see all my relatives who live there. It is the first time that I can remember seeing everyone on one visit while I've been out there. My grandmother sent me pictures to post, and with them are descriptions. They are of old relatives of the family, along with a link to a Sears catalog posting, which my grandmothers' family bought and built a house from this catalog.

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Great Great Great Grandparents

 

Lewis Lunz                Germany --  1885  Came to US 1910

Unknown

 

Great Great Grandparents

 

John Husler               France

Mary Lunz                  Illinois  Mother of Clara

 

                                    Emil                           1902

                                    Clara Julia                   1904  Mother of Patricia

                                    Florence Ida                 1906

                                    Lewis                           1908                                     

 

Great Grandparents

 

Clara  Julia Husler          Born Kansas                    July 27, 1904  Mother of Patricia

Frank Ernest Blanton     Born  Kansas                   May 30 1896

            

                                    Frank  Ernest                 September 18, 1933    Texas

                                    Mary Ellen                     January 23, 1936        Texas

                                    Florence Ilene                February 1, 1938         Kansas

                                    Patricia Ann                   September 5, 1940      Kansas

                                    Phillip Lawrence             June 13, 1943              Colorado

                                    Clare Suzanne                August 12, 1949          Missouri

 

Grandparents

 

Patricia Blanton         Coffeyville Kansas     September 5, 1940    Mother of Jamie

Jimmy Wallace          Gainesville, Georgia    March 3, 1935

 

                                Jamie Leann                July 26, 1957   California  Mother of Charles

                                Julie Lynn                    September 28, 1958

 

Parents

 

Jamie Leann Wallace

Warren Phelps

 

                                Krystal Leann           

                                Charles Edward

 

My Dad's family

 

Great Great Great Grandparents

 

Lewis E Blanton                            Kentucky    Born 1837  died 1916

Barbara  ???                                  Kentucky   Born 1838  Died 1918

 

 

Great Great Grandparents

 

Anderson Clinton Blanton                Kentucky    Born

Mary S. Bell                                    ??            1864  Died 1910

 

                                                        Clyde Anderson Blanton

                                                        Frank Ernest Blanton            1896

                                                        Florence Blanton                   1898

 

Pictures Below:

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Kin Folk and social structure

                                                                  Kin Folk

Chapter six was about kinship and family. In class, we did a group exercise of making our own kinship tree. It was interesting to hear the different family and friends we claim within our inner circle. Some of us included every family member from parents to cousins, and some of us didn’t. All of us claimed very close friends within our inner circle. That didn’t surprise me at all. Your closest friends are like brothers and sisters. You depend on them for advice and support, as well as a good time. I didn’t realize until this chapter how big your inner circle will be once you get married (if you get married or have a significant other).

It’s going to be interesting to see what we (students) find out about our family. I don’t know much about where my descendants came from. I know some of my family history goes back to Wales, so I have some Welsh running through my veins. I’ve never been to Europe, but one day I would like to. I would like to trace my roots back to Wales and see where our family came from, and how the dynamics of life are different than here in the United States of America. Now, some of the people I included in my inner circle live in places other than Georgia. They are California, North Carolina and South Carolina.  I know for my project I’m going to look through both my moms side of the family, as well as my dads side of the family. So to use a term from the chapter, I’m going to trace using bilineal descent.  

Here’s a question I have, when the chapter talks about ritually established kinship, is this strictly religion? For me, I think a ritual such as getting together with some friends to watch an NFL game is establishing kinship. If you are getting together on a regular basis, then isn’t that a ritual? Can this not be counted? You are expanding or deepening your already inner circle.

The other intriguing part of the chapter was about marriage. I want to get married one day. I want it to be a special person that I marry. I want to have kids. I probably would just want two. I’m not picky as to whether it would be a girl and boy, or both are girls and/or boys. I want to establish a household.  I don’t want to have more than one wife. I don’t condone or believe in polygamy. How do people balance having more than one spouse? The thought of it is crazy. It seems like it would be hard enough to help with one spouse, let alone five. On top of that, a polygamists have a lot of kids. Have you watched the documentaries about these things? They creep me out. I’ve attached a link to my blog about polygamy. It explores the fundamentalist who believe in polygamy, and it looks at child abuse cases. Give it a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITzchbdSvzA

I can't begin to tell you about how I can't believe in incest. Some cultures, this is normal. Here in America, incest exist. Their are laws prohibiting this type of relationship, but people still do it. In the earlier video about polygamy, their is talk of child abuse. In some situations the child abuse can turn into fathers raping their children, mainly the girls. It is a very sick thing to even think of, but the sad truth is this exist in our society. People suffer tremendously from this (incest and polygamy). Most documentaries I've seen about polygamy or incest always involve the woman who isn't into it, but somehow she is forced into it. In some cases, their are men who are forced into it, but it is a rarity. I hope one day, the people who want out of the bad situation are able to get the help they need so they can get out. I like seeing people happy, and it seems like most people aren't happy in these situations.

                                                                    Structure

Chapter seven talks about social groups and structure. Earlier in the blog, I talked about kinship tying into rituals like watching football. Well, I definitely know that I belong to a social group of football fans. I belong to the NFL, Minnesota Vikings and Tennessee Volunteers social group. We share a lot of common interests, and the main one is football.We (the social group) have that in common. I like wrestling, so I can associate with the social group of wrestling fans. All of these for me would be a secondary group of social groups. Most of us have been through a graduation ceremony, so we belong to the social group of graduates. There are so many different kinds of social groups, and they are all around us.  

We also learn about friendship from this chapter. Friends are very important to me. With my very close friends, we share a lot of common interests. The main tie between us all is our faith in God. From there it is sports, music, movies, etc. I’ve been a best man in a wedding, shared numerous birthdays with friends and been there to see their biggest moments. I would not trade a single moment. To me, a good friend has the same values and morals that you have. They are brutally honest with you. They hold you to a high standard and tell you when you’re right or wrong. They give you support, just like you should give them support. You open up your home, just like they would open theirs up to you. I don’t know where I would be without my friends. I look up to them and respect the hell out of them.