My interests and main focus are those with related family surnames (listed in part, below) and those related by blood or marriage. I do manage a few friends or people I was close to in life.

I also manage some that I created from the photos I take or obituaries I come across researching my lines.

Since genealogy is important to me, my memorials will be focused on family lines, connections and documentation which will be noted or attached in some form or other. I am working through them, but it takes time to thoroughly investigate the facts of a person's life. Even then, I may not get it right, so feel free to send edits with sources if you see something out of place.

This is a work in progress. I have a job, other responsibilities and a living family that means the world to me, and I will spend time with them as long as the Lord allows. For these reasons, I cannot devote every waking minute to genealogy and Find-a-Grave, but rest assured, I am working on it as time permits. I will review and respond to edit requests within 24 to 48 hours.

CORRECTIONS, TRANSFERS AND DUPLICATES

1. I am not an expert by a long shot, so if you find errors or have more information, please use the edit button found on the memorial to request edits or updates to a memorial.

2. Also, use the edit button to request transfers. I would be glad to transfer management of a memorial, If not my own relatives/ancestors.

3. It's never my intention to create a duplicate memorial on purpose. If you come across a duplicate, please use the Report Duplicate tool.

MY FAMILY SURNAMES (including sisters-in-law families, my husband's family names, via Virginia, Maryland and New York, and my daughter's paternal line mainly in Lexington County, SC):

Brasington, Adams, Catoe, Faile, Pate, Wright, Mungo, Mackey, Starnes, Hinson, Hilton, Faulkenberry, Miller, Deese, Cook(e), Passmore, Webb, Knutson, Nolley, Blackwell, Hasty, Beckham, Anderson, Bailey, Criminger (Crimminger, Krimminger Griminger), Love, Roberts, Stogner, Ellis, Hendrix, Threatt, Carnes, Outen, Key (Kee, McKee) Bachelor (Batchelor and various other spellings), Owens, Medlin, Small, Cauthen, Belk, McCoy, Robinson, Robertson, Shull, Kyzer, Watkins, Lybrand, Owens, Lawless, Branham, Nuckles, Crimmins (Cremins) , Dolan, Baginski and many others.

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Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest;

Neglected and alone.

The name and date are chiseled out

On polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care

It is too late to mourn.

You did not know that I exist

You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you

In flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

One hundred years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left

Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot,

And come to visit you.

—Walter Butler Palmer (1868-1932), written in 1906