The House

This house photo was found in my father, deceased Bill Diffee's, scrapbook. He was a great keeper of scrapbooks. I think this is Pleasant's home place - at least that is what is labeling the photo. Personally, I have not been to this house and would like to have some clarification about it. Of course, I also want to go to it! After speaking on the phone last night with my 3rd cousin, Jay Davis, I think it might just be the house he knows about. If you would like to contact me with more info - who owns it now, etc. Please do!! Here it is:

So then there is this house: My family (without me obviously)went to a family reunion of some sort there. My Grandmother, daughter of Nish and Sarah Davis of Flint Rd. - Elgie - is in the pictures. I'm not sure who some of the others are. She was in her 80's when there. I'm so glad she was able to attend! If you can identify any of the people in the pictures please let me know!

Added photos to each section today!

I have added new pictures to every section of this blog - don't leave without visiting each page!

New photos for the Family Photo page today!

New pictures are being added to the gallery today. See the page Family Photos for the updates! send your own pictures through email, with a short description and I'll add them to the page. My email to send them to is: lanehall1222@yahoo.com or denisehallnc@gmail.com

Here is a darling picture of Jimmy and Connie Davis' two children many years ago playing on the lawn of the someplace of Nish and Sarah Davis - Camilla and Jay Davis. They are now in their 30's with families of their own!

New Page Added for pictures

Check out the new page I just added. It will be for pictures of photos of the Saunders and Davis's, Cranfords(Grandpa Nish's mother's name) and other related families. I'm starting off with some cemetery pics of gravestones and graveyards where our ancestors are buried. The comments may not be added for a few days but at least I am getting the pictures up! The cemeteries are Ophir UMC (most of the Saunders and Davis's are here), Zoar (a hard one to find on th backroads of Montgomery County, Hepzibah - I got this one off Findagrave.com Please add any comments or information that you can to help me complete this blog! Just leave a comment or email me and I'll add it for you! Thanks to my cousin (2nd) Jay Davis for contacting me just recently after reading the blog. I appreciate your help and interest and hope to see you sometime soon! Denise

Ophir, Montgomery County, North Carolina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophir,_North_Carolina

My Grandmother was a teacher

A prized picture that was just discovered of my Grandmother, Elgie Davis Diffee, when she was a teacher in the mid 1920's. She studied at Appalachian State College, in Boone, NC. She was not allowed to marry as a teacher in the 20's and secretly married my Grandfather, supposedly! She continued to teach until she became pregnant with my father in 1930.

An interesting blog to visit about the Sanders/Saunders family ancestry

Unfortunately, this site was discontinued by the owners, Ancestry.com. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sandersgenealogy/Siftings.html