Grabel huff
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Re: Grabel huff
 seitz172
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Posted: 13 Jul 2005 1:18AM GMT |
Classification: Query
OK.....let's see. First let me direct you to something I found of great value..... http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/y/Glen-R-Brya... Those are "dots" after familytreemaker and after genealogy. This fits in the Huff line all the way back to pre-1750. As for Mary Grabel, I have that she and Martin Robert Huff were married Feb 8, 1882 and that she died about 1938 and is buried in Kentucky. This is sort of a flaw with me banking on the stories that my mom (Rupert's kid) always told me. I'm going to have to do some snooping to come up with details.
I am not the baby of the family, but I am the only one interested in doing all of this. Rupert married Bertie Green South and they had three kids....Abilene the oldest, Juanita the middle, and Robert the baby. Abilene's kids are considerably older than I am (I'm 58) so that makes the kids Billy Whitten about 73 and Anne Robertson about 65. I'm going to write them tomorrow to see what they remember since they grew up in Mineola. Robert and Cora's kids were John Robert and Gary....lost touch with both of them; they lived in Grand Saline. Abilene, Juanita and Robert are all passed now. Rupert and Bertie lived in a little frame house on the right as you followed the road that paralleled the train track out of town. He had a pretty good sized garden that he sold produce from in lean times, and as a profession he was a house painter. The house was on a slight curve. When I was little we used to go across the street and down some to a relative's house that had a fishing pond. Was that Charlie?
Mother used to tell me that Martin ran away from Kentucky with the "handmaiden" and brought her boys and his boys to East Texas where they bought up a lot of land for $10/acre. That transaction is on the books somewhere......Anyway, Martin left his wife, their daughters, and the handmaiden's daughters in Kentucky with the land. Reportedly (and of course this is according to my mom, who you couldn't always believe) the handmaiden stole all the land for her boys who ended up doing well.....leaving our side with nothing. According the aforementioned familytreemaker site, Mary must have been the one left in Kentucky and Elizabeth Basham the "handmaiden" since Elizabeth's kids are older than Mary's. The familytreemaker has the ladies backwards. Mother used to talk about "Aunt Betty" which would refer to Elizabeth, but I thought Aunt Betty was buried in Mineola. This site does not mention where she is buried. As well, they are all buried in the New Hope Cemetary, which reflects the cemetary name in Brownsville, Kentucky.....interesting. I think G'pa even lived on New Hope Road if I remember correctly.
My home e-mail is seitz@zeecon.com Please use this e-mail from now on. Thanks. I'll need to know your home address at that time and I'll start sending along whatever I come up with. I just retired in May from teaching math in high school and will devote the rest of my summer to snooping. I've got the rest of the family done....just the Huffs and Souths left.
I am not the baby of the family, but I am the only one interested in doing all of this. Rupert married Bertie Green South and they had three kids....Abilene the oldest, Juanita the middle, and Robert the baby. Abilene's kids are considerably older than I am (I'm 58) so that makes the kids Billy Whitten about 73 and Anne Robertson about 65. I'm going to write them tomorrow to see what they remember since they grew up in Mineola. Robert and Cora's kids were John Robert and Gary....lost touch with both of them; they lived in Grand Saline. Abilene, Juanita and Robert are all passed now. Rupert and Bertie lived in a little frame house on the right as you followed the road that paralleled the train track out of town. He had a pretty good sized garden that he sold produce from in lean times, and as a profession he was a house painter. The house was on a slight curve. When I was little we used to go across the street and down some to a relative's house that had a fishing pond. Was that Charlie?
Mother used to tell me that Martin ran away from Kentucky with the "handmaiden" and brought her boys and his boys to East Texas where they bought up a lot of land for $10/acre. That transaction is on the books somewhere......Anyway, Martin left his wife, their daughters, and the handmaiden's daughters in Kentucky with the land. Reportedly (and of course this is according to my mom, who you couldn't always believe) the handmaiden stole all the land for her boys who ended up doing well.....leaving our side with nothing. According the aforementioned familytreemaker site, Mary must have been the one left in Kentucky and Elizabeth Basham the "handmaiden" since Elizabeth's kids are older than Mary's. The familytreemaker has the ladies backwards. Mother used to talk about "Aunt Betty" which would refer to Elizabeth, but I thought Aunt Betty was buried in Mineola. This site does not mention where she is buried. As well, they are all buried in the New Hope Cemetary, which reflects the cemetary name in Brownsville, Kentucky.....interesting. I think G'pa even lived on New Hope Road if I remember correctly.
My home e-mail is seitz@zeecon.com Please use this e-mail from now on. Thanks. I'll need to know your home address at that time and I'll start sending along whatever I come up with. I just retired in May from teaching math in high school and will devote the rest of my summer to snooping. I've got the rest of the family done....just the Huffs and Souths left.