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This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to Spotsylvania County Virginia. See the Related Projects for details.
Patrick Sullivan has written a fantastic series of blogs about various of the Ancient Ancestors in the Spotsylvania county and surrounding area. He began with the Row family, but has expanded to many of the collateral families kin by blood or marriage as well. His blogs now include biographical sketches of people throughout the state of Virginia and beyond.
His detailed and interesting blogs at Spotsylvania Memory provide tremendous insight and information about numerous relatives and other local figures of interest. His well researched and thoughtfully written blogs provide day to day history about the ancestors as they lived it.
Patrick Sullivan has a new book out (proceeds are going to fund the Orange County Historical Society so I will shamelessly plug it): No Matter What Befalls Me
Thursday, June 7, 2018 Powhatan Foster
Thursday, May 3, 2018 Zion, Part 4
Sunday, April 29, 2018 Zion, Part 3
Thursday, April 26, 2018 Zion, Part 2
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Zion, Part 1
Tuesday, December 26, 2017 A Petticoat for the Confederacy
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 A Footnote to the Death of Stonewall Jackson
Friday, November 17, 2017 "Your kindness shall ever be remembered"
Thursday, November 16, 2017 "I write a few lines tonight to let you hear from us"
Friday, September 22, 2017 The CCC Comes to Spotsylvania
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 The Adventists Come to Screamersville
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 Dr. John Samuel Apperson
Monday, August 14, 2017 "Since the war, I have been fighting them politically"
Tuesday, August 8, 2017 The Story Behind the Portrait
Monday, August 7, 2017 The Chancellors Revealed
Sunday, August 6, 2017 "During the war, the girls saw sights"
Monday, July 10, 2017 "They would have him dead or alive"
Sunday, November 6, 2016 "To hear the shout of victory, before I die"
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 "Bullets flew about me like hailstones"
Friday, August 19, 2016 To Be a Slave
Monday, May 23, 2016 Little Falls School
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 William George White and the Funeral of Robert E. Lee
Friday, April 15, 2016 Goshen School
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 The Funeral of Fannie Kent Row
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Chancellor & Rawlings
Saturday, March 26, 2016 Three Who Rode to War
Sunday, March 20, 2016 Dr. James Edgar Chancellor
Sunday, March 13, 2016 "O the horror of that day!"
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Reverend Melzi Sanford Chancellor
Saturday, March 5, 2016 Lorman Chancellor
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 No Matter What Befalls Me
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 No Matter What Befalls Me
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 A History of Shady Grove
Geni project resource:
Friday, August 7, 2015 Tabernacle
Monday, June 29, 2015 Chancellor High School, 1912-1940
Geni project resource:
Saturday, June 6, 2015 Bivouac of the Dead
Sunday, April 26, 2015 The Zouaves Come to Chancellorsville
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Past Meets Present in West Chester
Monday, March 16, 2015 John P. Kale
Thursday, February 26, 2015 Annette Houston Harlow
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 Slaves at the Museum
Thursday, December 4, 2014 Dr. John Duerson Pulliam
Friday, November 28, 2014 Little Orphan Annie
Monday, November 24, 2014 Death on the Virginia Central
Monday, November 17, 2014 Thomas Pearson Payne
Geni profiles mentioned:
Saturday, October 18, 2014 Ralph Happel's Eulogy to Phenie Tapp
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 Sprig Dempsey and the Battle of Catherine Furnace
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 William Lee Andrews
Saturday, October 4, 2014 The Return of Lizzie's Stone
Saturday, September 27, 2014 The World According to Phenie Tapp
Geni profiles mentioned:
- George Leo Frankenstein
- Daniel Dempsey
- Elizabeth Dempsey
- Catharine Elizabeth Dempsey Tapp "Widow Tapp"
- Vincent Tapp
- Sarah Elizabeth Bowling (Tapp)
- Margaret Tapp
- Harriett C Lewis (Tapp)
- Andrew Jackson Lewis
- James B Tapp
- William Benjamin Tapp
- Thomas Pulliam
- Eliza Pulliam
- Thomas Richard Pulliam
- "Phenie" Eliza Frances Tapp
- John James Pulliam
Saturday, August 30, 2014 William Lee Kent
Geni profiles mentioned:
Friday, August 22, 2014 The Haunted Mind of Sam Ford
Saturday, July 26, 2014 Middleton Chambers
Thursday, July 10, 2014 Benjamin Bowering Rediscovered
Thursday, June 26, 2014 Jehu Williams
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 The Taking of Jacob Lyman Greene
Sunday, May 25, 2014 Wilcox & Kinsey
Monday, April 28, 2014 Ancestors at the Museum
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 "I would charge hell itself"
Monday, April 7, 2014 Corporal William White and the Wrong Man
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 Greenfield and the Battle of the Wilderness
Friday, January 10, 2014 "You don't have to pack cotton in your bosom"
Sunday, January 5, 2014 One Hundred Hands
Friday, January 3, 2014 George W.E. Row, Inc.
Monday, December 30, 2013 Black Confederate
- Humphrey Morgan
- /Nancy Young
- Humphrey Young
- Atwell Young
- Betsy Schooler Young
- Ellen Cook
- James Pettigrew Chartters
- William Cook
- William A Stephens
Saturday, December 21, 2013 "This day ran away from my premises, servants..."
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 George Row's horse
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Greenfield
Monday, October 28, 2013 Captain John Row
Sunday, October 13, 2013 Thomas Addison Harris
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 The mystery house
Monday, October 7, 2013 Of squirrels slain, and a brother lost
Sunday, September 15, 2013 Images once lost, now found-Part 2
Friday, September 13, 2013 Images once lost, now found
Thursday, September 12, 2013 Faces at Middletown
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 "The horses are actually starving to death"
Monday, July 29, 2013 Considering Mr. Row
Saturday, July 27, 2013 Louisa and Joshua
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 "Death has broken life's silver chain"
Sunday, July 21, 2013 Five Sisters
Monday, July 15, 2013 The Schools of Spotsylvania
Sunday, July 7, 2013 A Murder in Old Lexington
Thursday, June 13, 2013 The Yankee Who Died For Virginia
Friday, June 7, 2013 The Finleys
Saturday, May 18, 2013 The Alsops and the Graubes
Saturday, September 28, 2013 "My dear daughter"
Sunday, September 22, 2013 The Journal of Absalom Row
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 "To The Troopers of Spotsylvania"
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 Shady Grove
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 The Drama of Being Peter Powell
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 A Brief Story of Ellen
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Dr. Row in the Limelight
Friday, March 29, 2013 "A Splendid Woman"
Thursday, March 14, 2013 The Saw Mills of George W.E. Row
Saturday, February 9, 2013 The Family Museum
Sunday, February 3, 2013 The Hardware Salesman and the Widow
Monday, January 28, 2013 The Used Cow Salesman
Monday, January 21, 2013 The Fredericksburg & Wilderness Telephone Company
Thursday, January 17, 2013 The School House on the Corner
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Erasing History
Sunday, December 23, 2012 "Hirelings of the best government in the world"
Friday, December 7, 2012 Walnut Grove
Friday, November 16, 2012 One Daughter, Two Names, One Grave
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 The McCoull House
Sunday, November 4, 2012 Political Satire, circa 1872
Friday, November 2, 2012 Mary Houston
Saturday, October 13, 2012 The Last Days of George W.E. Row
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Recipes from old Spotsylvania
Sunday, October 7, 2012 You Can't Go Home Again
Sunday, September 23, 2012 The Letter from Maria Dobyns
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 The Furnace, the Rheumatism and the Yankees
Sunday, September 16, 2012 John Edgar Willson
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Maria Newton Marshall
Monday, September 10, 2012 Glenburnie
Friday, September 7, 2012 Matthew Willson
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Faces from the Past
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 Yankee Hospitality
Monday, August 13, 2012 First Virginian for the Confederacy Tuesday, July 3, 2012 "This heart is still true to thee"
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 The Rows of Caroline County-Part 2
Monday, May 28, 2012 The Rows of Caroline County-Part 1
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 James Roach
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 June 21, 1863
Monday, April 30, 2012 Colonel Elhanon Row
Saturday, April 14, 2012 The Prayer Book of Rachel Keeling Row
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 The Chancellors, Part 3
Sunday, April 1, 2012 The Chancellors, Part 2
Sunday, March 25, 2012 The Chancellors, Part 1
Sunday, March 18, 2012 Willis & Crismond
Saturday, March 3, 2012 Granville Swift
Sunday, February 19, 2012 "I was a Union woman to the backbone"
Saturday, February 4, 2012 William George Houston
Thursday, December 29, 2011 The Enigmatic Mr. Scott
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Sarah Jane Daniel, Part 2
Monday, November 28, 2011 Sarah Jane Daniel, Part 1
Monday, November 14, 2011 The Strange Tale of JPH Crismond
Sunday, November 6, 2011 Incident at Ellwood
Friday, October 28, 2011 The Kales of Fredericksburg
Monday, October 24, 2011 George W.E. Row and the Freedmen
Monday, October 17, 2011 A Witness to History
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Requiem for Margaret
Saturday, October 1, 2011 The Memorandum Book
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Slavery, War and Nancy Row
Thursday, September 15, 2011 Slavery and Absalom Row
Monday, September 5, 2011 Greenfield and the Peculiar Institution
Thursday, September 1, 2011 Thomas Row
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Finley Houston
Thursday, August 18, 2011 George Houston
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 "I will do no act hostile to the union of the states"
Friday, August 5, 2011 Fannie Kent Row
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 "You don't know how much we miss you"
Sunday, July 31, 2011 "I am straight in my dealings as any man"
Thursday, July 28, 2011 Mabel Row Wakeman
Sunday, July 24, 2011 Abbie Rowe-White House Photographer
Thursday, July 21, 2011 "It would be my heart's delight to do it"
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Berkley Estes
Sunday, July 17, 2011 John Sanders Row
Thursday, July 14, 2011 Elhanon Winchester Row
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Lizzie Row's Last Chapter
Sunday, July 10, 2011 June 1899
Thursday, July 7, 2011 "The sad change in our little home"
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 "On that beautiful shore"
Monday, June 27, 2011 "I can heartily commend our daughter to you"
Thursday, June 23, 2011 "I thought your little heart would break"
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 George Washington Estes Row, Part 4
Sunday, June 19, 2011 George Washington Estes Row, Part 3
Thursday, June 16, 2011 George Washington Estes Row, Part 2
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 George Washington Estes Row, Part 1
Sunday, June 12, 2011 Benjamin Cason Rawlings
Thursday, June 9, 2011 Zachary Herndon Rawlings
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 A Case of Murder in Old Spotsylvania
Sunday, June 5, 2011 Bettie Row Rawlings
Thursday, June 2, 2011 Nannie Row, Part 2
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Nannie Row, Part 1
Saturday, May 28, 2011 Sarah Row
Thursday, May 26, 2011 James T. Williams
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Martha Row Williams