Father's Day.... It Is !!

A Satisfying Day 2016

Roots... The South in 1890++++

Travis Family Findings ~ Anew!

My posting from January 2013 wondered + searched for MY GREAT GRAND FATHER (on my dad's Travis lineage.... paternal).  

Hey Hey world.... I've broken thru a brick wall!   Last January of 2015 == my brothers ran thru Chicago IL and ... at my insistence... all of my prodding and pleading.... My cousins came up with a "B-Jeweled Family Picture"

 Jim  (James) Travis       ~ Cornelia Salter

b. Nov 1874 - d. Jan 7, 1950       b. 1873 - d. June 28,1952

   Pearlie Travis      ~  Howard Huggins Sr

b. June 10 1900 d Feb 27, 1968         b 1889  d 1958

  

Howard Jr. Huggins 

b. Apr 1927    d. June 1977

My Aunts from Mississippi AWESOME

Their lives inspire me almost daily

2015 ~ Beginning Again....

I contacted another Chicago cousin.... asking is her mother... had a picture of her grandparents.... James and Cornelia (Nellie) Travis.  

I'm back on this Jug and Snalley track!  I'm smiling in remembrance.    Great-granpa-  GG-ma... I'm your offspring... and I love u guys!

Telling the Mississippi Story!

Beginning Anew..... Jug & Snally in Mississippi

Family questions I've asked along the way. . . . . abt 24-30 months ago via FB

Joyce in Chicago said her brother Charles took the family photo albums to Dorothy's house when Dear (their mother) passed. I haven't seen them since. In those albums I remember definitely a picture of James "Jug" Travis. Cornelia "Snalley" Travis, maybe. Perhaps you could ask Dorothy if these items are still in her house. (I haven't been there in years).

Even I -----  miss the followup...???   Why do I so often hesitate?  Do I feel I'm imposing into somebody- else's past?   Tis for tat.... it is my Past that I seek.

Good bye and Hello 2014

Today's Revelation

God knows my DNA..... in a very comforting way.     I am to live as God has ordained....

Jug and Snally...... Were you a diabetic???

Bryd (Byron) Travis was born in Sep. 1843 in MS and died in 1926 in Holmes, MS.

Mollie Garrett was born in 1849 in MS and died in 1910 in Holmes, MS at the age of 60-61.

This couple were married in 1866 in Lexington MS

Children of Byrd and Mollie:

(1) b 1866 MS Rayford
(2) b. 1868 MS Martha
(3) b. 1869 MS Joseph
(4) b. 1873 MS George
(5) b. 1874 MS James born in Holmes, MS and died 1-7-1950 in Holmes MS @ age 75-76        Jug and Snally  -   Jim and Nealie
(6) b. 1876 MS Wiliam M.
(7) b. 1877 MS Charles F
(8) b. 1881 MS Minnie
(9) b. 1883 MS Craig
(10) b. 1887 MS Pearl
(11) b. 1891 MS Birda

Birda - Berty ~ Travis/Martin Family Tree

Huggins-Travis.... or Travis-Huggins

I took the time to read the details on the Death Certificate for my Grandfather Howard Huggins Sr.

 

Holmes County.... MS searches!

Holmes County is a county located in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. state of Mississippi.

As of 2010, the population was 19,198. It is named in honor of David Holmes, the first governor of Mississippi. Its county seat is Lexington.^[1] Holmes County has the lowest life expectancy of any county in the United States, either for men or women

Holmes County has the third lowest per capita income in Mississippi and the 41st lowest in the United States !!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Statistics:   7,314 households, and 5,229 families:  County has a total area of 764.18 sq miles:  population density was 29 people per square mile (11/km²).  Racial makeup of the county was 20.47% White, 78.66% Black or African American, 0.12% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.07% from other races, and 0.52% from two or more races. 0.90% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

According to the census^[4] of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Holmes County were African 78.66%, English 11.4%, and Scots-Irish 5%

Unincorporated Cummunities.... hmnnnn in MS

and of which I have become familiar on the 1880 - early 1900's census tracts.

Thornton is located on U.S. Highway 49E and is approximately 7 miles (11 km) north of Eden and approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Tchula.

Ebenezer is located at the intersection of Mississippi Highway 17 and Mississippi Highway 433, approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Lexington and 4 miles (6.4 km) approximately west of Goodman.


Richland is approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Goodman and approximately 7 miles (11 km) north of Pickens

Tchula, MS to Lexington Distance

. . is also about 14 minutes (11.4 miles)

 

Tchula is a town in Holmes County, Mississippi. The population was 2,332 at the 2000 census.

Statistics:  724 households, and 524 families.   Tchula has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km²), and Population Density was 1,683.6 people per square mile.  Racial makeup of the town:   3.43% White, 95.93% Black, less than 1% Indian, Hispanic Latino or other races.