Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Oak Level Cemetery - Cullman

Barron and I drove only a few miles from our temporary house and visited the gravesites of Bobby "Scoots" Latham and son, Stanley, in Oak Level Cemetery. As some in the family know, Scoots suffered from TB (as did brother Stancell "Nip") and had lost a lot of his lung capacity. He died of pneumonia at age 29 in 1963.  Then two years later, little Stanley died as a result of an automobile accident.

We'll try to take another trip over that way and I'll take the camera with me so I can post pictures of the headstones.  Please feel free to share any photos or stories you have about our Wilkins relatives! (Please let me know of any corrections to my info!)

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Family Reunion 2008

What a great time was had by everyone -- and all that food!! We did miss those of you who could not make it this time and look forward to seeing you next year. As some of you know, I started working on the family tree many years back at Sue's request and the information I have has been uploaded to Ancestry.com and you can go to our blog (www.janbscott.blogspot.com) and just click to see what I have. I brought copies of the information to the reunion and asked that you let me know of any changes, deletions, corrections and additions. Thought perhaps this blog might be an easy way for you to get that information to me.

Barron/Freddie would like to do a "video" family tree and so this is our first attempt to get this started. As you share your information with us, I will add it to the Family Tree Maker genealogy I have and hopefully by next year's reunion, we will have something on CD that can be shared with you and your children and their children.

I know Barbara has worked on the genealogy and now that we are in Cullman, I anticipate that we can corroborate together. Others of you may have done some research and I hope you will share that with us as well.