Giving Thanks

May we remember to give thanks everyday. Thanksgiving is every day. Not just one day on the calendar.  May we count our blessings by giving thanks for God for all that He has done and will be for us.  May we enter into the Holidays with thanksgiving on our lips. Amen.

Enjoy the season of Thanksgiving.

Thanks for reading.
S.A. Blakley

It's A Special Day!

It’s the 102nd year of my father’s birth.
He celebrated his birthday on Nov 13th.
.
Thanks for reading.
Susan
Have A Happy "Good" Friday, The 13th
Happy 11/13/15 Day!

Happy Veterans Day!

Happy Veterans Day!

I want to honor those who are veterans and those served in U.S.military.

Thank you!
Have A Blessed Day!

 

 

Here are some relatives who have served  in the military and have passed on.
Their memorials that I have found or set up on Find A Grave;

Click on LIST.|

With Honor: Giving Thanks
I am thankful for the service men and women
who put their lives on the line to fight for our country.
May God protect all the service members of the military branches near and aboard.
May God bless their families and comfort them.

  Those who are living.

 

 Daniel

--U.S. Vietnam--

 

Steven 
---Air Force Vietnam--
 

 Laura 
-- Air Force---
 

I have many cousins who have served and are serving in the military.

Thanks for reading
Susan  

Tracing The Lankford / Lankfard Surname Through Research And Thoughts

It's been a journey Tracing the Lankford / Lankfard Surname Through the children of Robert and Charlotta (Dade) Lankford / Lankfard. With all the documents and what each child left behind as a paper trail, it still leaves a mystery.



On the back of this photo, the surname was spelled LANKFARD

I wasn't out to prove which surname was the family surname. I don't which one is the correct spelling. As I searched the records, the surname could have been Lankfard. It's in records.

What stands out the most isn't what was recorded in records, it was how the surname was recorded. The most important thing was how the siblings wrote on the postcards and how they signed their surname. That's evidence in itself.

As for the tombstones, that's another story. I would think, when a person orders a tombstone, the person who orders it, spells the name out. I don't think it was by accident that the LANKFARD surname was on Robert, Charlotta, Leo and Mary's tombstones.


 Here's the list of the links to the blogs on each child of
Robert and Charlotta (Dade)Lankford / Lankfard

James Andrew LANKFARD
Frederick A. LANKFARD
Isabella V. (LANKFORD/ LANKFARD) NICKERSON
Lula Mae Russell (LANKFARD) MADISON
Anna Alice (LANKFARD) SMITH
Charles Edward LANKFARD
Nymadula / Nym LANKFARD
Louis Adward LANKFARD
Leo LANKFORD /  LANKFARD

 I honor both spelling. My linage spelling is LANKFORD. But, I believe most of the earlier family spell their surname LANKFARD. Somehow the LANKFORD spelling stood out.

Thanks for reading.
S.A. Blakley

Journey Continues On November 2015

Greetings to you!  Happy November!  

My journey quest continues. I'm finding more as new info is being release to the public. I have come across more names, obituaries, and vital info. I'm hoping that more info will be released. I'm making some updates and corrections.

On facebook group pages there are
127 Blakey / Blakley / White Family Connections Members
  83 Bartlett Family Connections Members                                         
  23 DADE Family Connections Members

I hope that others will connect.
Have a Wonderful November.
We have  a lot to be thankful for

Thanks for reading.
S.A. Blakley

In Family History: November

Here's some of what I was searching and some discovering on my Family Connections Calendar in November of 2014. I have another part of my findings in my Family Connections Note Book. I will post later this month.

At the top of calendar working to November 1, 2014

Faris Kashif LYLE ~ Shirley LYLE
Jessica Selestins m. Aug 31, 2014

Found online Newspaper for St. Joseph, Missouri

Lived in California
Eddie 17 1935
Archie 24 1919
Flora 30 1924

Note: BLAKEY
Lillie BLAKEY HAYES d. between 1930= 1943
Mary WHITE / BLAKEY GREEN d. 1949

Note on Edna BLAKEY's son
Edward JACKSON d. 1959 heat attack
wife Fleda L. SLADE (1926- 2013)
children
Gravel E
Rickey Elwood
Anthony Mitchell b. 1951
Barry Eugene (1952-2003)
Joseph Lammi b. 1955

Notes: BLAKEY
Robert STOCKS b. Nov 1, 1965
daughter Olivia STOCK
Anna COMER

Note: LYLE
Hamid O. LYLE 53
Mary Alice
Catherine
Andrew
Faris
Ben
Abdell
Omare ...Jacquelyn

Added Amer LYLE Faith M. b. Sept. 1 1962

Notes WHITE
Marion D. MINOR
Etta Louise MOORE MINOR (1932-2014)
Debora MINOR b. 1957
Lindaa Louise THOMASTON
Elizabeth ELKINS
Lisa PERRY b. 1964
Patricia (1958-2009)
Nancy

Notes: BLAKEY
Clarence Ollie BLAKEY
Vicotria,  daughter... Michelle GONZALES
m. Charles K. BOWMAN on April 26, 1997

Riccho Ollie BLAKEY m. Stephanie R. GROSS
Riccho Dashawn BLAKEY b. Nov 2 1972
Ashad BLAKEY b. Nov 30, 1979
Nelson Clarence BLAKEY

Notes: NICKERSON
Vivian NICKERSON JAMES HAWKINS
children
Nancy (Henry) CANNADY b. 1943
Cheryl L. STEGER (1947-2012)
Harold HAWKINS

Notes: on days on calendar.

Amer N. LYLE b 1956
John C. NELSON d 1975
Isaac BLAKEY joined Civil War 1863

Newspaper article on Jordan Blakey
He turned 57 in 1938

Searching Newspapers: St Joseph, Missouri

Add to list: Etta MOORE MINOR (1938- 2014)

Searching for Moses WHITE info
Toni GETHERS FORD
Kiera GETHERS KING

James W. HENDRED d 1910

? Isaac DADE / DAYD
Missouri Union Civil War vet
(1844- 1907)
 DADEs in Illinois
Mildred CORNNER / COTTON b 1929 ~ LA

Durwood D. HENDRICKS
Beverly POINTER BOOTS

DAYD, Isaac Dec 1845
Len Mar 1868

1900 Census Isaac Russell DAYD

Find A Grave:
Added Alfred Ray DADE b 1961 d 1996
Alfred son of Charles E. DADE and Mary TATE

CARDER, Megan M. BLAKEY d. 1999

Elizabeth (WHITE)  GETHERS d. 1992
Estrall E. MORRISION

Searched for Etta Louise MOORE MINOR
Added child Sheryl MARTIN to Find A Grave

Mary ALLEN LANKFORD / LANKFARD d. Nov 7, 1975

Pamela STOCK ADAM d. 1997
William Leslie TERRILL b. 1928

Benjamin WASHINGTON b. 1882

Added more on MOORE/ MINOR Family Connections

Tony WHITE b. 1889
Military related
Searching for Clarence Ollie BLAKEY's Lineage
Pamela Denise BLAKEY CLARKE b. 1971
Bianca Florann
Meag BLAKEY CARDER

Found obituary of 
Mike Lee BLAKEY d. 1954
Archie BLAKEY d. 1943 in California in 1919.
Flora E. BLAKEY d. 1954 age 30
Edward JACKSON
Edna Mae BENTLEY
Corrine O. HAYES
Note: Verna M. BLAKEY
m. Lester Martin WILLIAMS

Olive / Ollie BLAKEY and Margaret BLAKEY

VERTEAN'S DAY
Honoring Relatives serving in the military
Eugene WHITE sr. b. 1901

Info on NICKERSON
Nathan W. NICKERSON
Doris Jean Married Eric Larry BURNETT
1968 div 1969

Note mailed DNA got results on Oct 24 , 2014

Ollie BLAKEY d 1972

LANKFORD / NICERSON Family Connections
Cousin Levern called
spoke of Vivian JAMES had a daughter named Sheryl

DWB b. in 1913

Vivian JAMES' daughter, Nancy listed with Henry CANNADAY 1993

R.L. LANKFORD d. 1919 on Nov 14th

Catherine ? BLAKEY wife of Paul

Issac R. BLAKLEY b. 1934

Added Uldene Frances YOUNGER ERIN
born Dec 14, 1905 died on Jul 14, 1991

Nancy CHAMBERNIN BLAKLEY d. 1987

Mary Ann DADE MADISON b. 1835

Anniversary of Family Connections on facebook
November 16, 2011

Judith Ann BLAKEY b. 1940

Searched for BLAKEYs

Mailed some info to a cousin in OR

Arlene MITCHELL BLAKEY d. 1981

Edward / Eddie Clem JACKSON
b. 1922

Note:
Robert NICKERSON
Anne , Lynne
Robert, Laura

Flora LAWERENCE BLAKEY d. 1954 on 21st

Jesse C. GUYTON b. 1963

Rena WHITE HOUSTON d, 1945

Made note:  Archie had no children ?

 Cousin called from OR.

Searched for Census and City Directories in CA
BLAKEYs
Archie with wives:  Flora, Genève, and Velma

Ollie with wife Margaret

Lawhorn with wives Mettie , Roberta and Inez

More CA City Directories 1950's - 1970's

Searching for California  BLAKEYs  Info / Bio /Jobs /Residences

Juanita WASHINGTON TATE d. 1950 (DADE Family Connections)

Thomas J. BLAKEY m. Etta Mae GRIFFIN div. 1974

Archie T. BLAKEY d. 1943
Liested on the city directory with Velma

Lawhorn BLAKEY construction worker don't go to school?

Richard .T. BENTLEY; Army WWI
Oct 26, 1916 to March 25, 1919 served 3 years

Find A Grave:
Catherine Virginia ARMSTRONG ELLIS
(BARTLETT Family Connections)

Note
Barbara called

Marshall HENDRED b. 1907
John WASHINGTON 1916

Ollie WHITE 1916
LATMER California

Thema J. TRUDELL BLAKEY
d. 1954

Eugene T. RICHARDSON d. 1991

Note: BARTLETT
Catherine ARMSTRONG EILLIS d. 2012
Geo T. ARMSTRONG b. 1882
Georgia ARMSTONG m) Sherdrick BONNETT 1947,

Posted Lineage on family connections on facebook.