tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post115754901973567977..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Twigs on the family treeMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-6445096336170375872010-03-29T08:19:01.541-04:002010-03-29T08:19:01.541-04:00I'm going to be writer-in-residence at Hollins...I'm going to be writer-in-residence at Hollins for a couple of weeks, and then I'll be moseying down to Wofford to be one of many writers at their summer writing camp for teens. Should be lively. I'm not sure how it happened--Jeff Vandermeer asked me.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-19253158896048942112010-03-29T00:23:21.657-04:002010-03-29T00:23:21.657-04:00Marly,
That's great about you comming to Spar...Marly,<br /><br />That's great about you comming to Spartanburg this summer!<br /><br />My father, two uncles, and my first cousin on my father's side's daughter all graduated from Wofford College. <br /><br />In fact, one of those uncles was my mother's only brother, James Young Wallace, Jr. He was a brilliant man. He was valedictorian of his Spartanburg High School class which William Wallace Tabbothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016192620945784120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-84275480697156897382010-03-28T23:14:30.165-04:002010-03-28T23:14:30.165-04:00Oh, and I can loan you my Morris-Arnold geneaology...Oh, and I can loan you my Morris-Arnold geneaology book if you promise to send it back!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-49024089458874636332010-03-28T23:11:23.903-04:002010-03-28T23:11:23.903-04:00Bill,
I'll send you a note at your email next...Bill,<br /><br />I'll send you a note at your email next week... Right now I have to shoehorn some children into bed! One is a jack-in-the-box.<br /><br />But first I'll send your note to my mother and see what she says. She and her sister Julia Eugenia Morris McComb are the last of that generation of the family. Three of the brothers died last year, the eldest at 101.<br /><br />I'm Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-73910569343122687392010-03-28T23:04:07.953-04:002010-03-28T23:04:07.953-04:00Marly,
I am so glad we were able to connect again...Marly,<br /><br />I am so glad we were able to connect again. Not only because of my interest in our family's genealogy, but also because I enjoy the opportunity to chat with distant cousins when I can. <br /><br />We both have in common that we connect through our mother's family lines respectively. All of my cousins on my mother's side and I were very close growing up. I think it isWilliam Wallace Tabbothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016192620945784120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-24977668119873335302010-03-27T17:36:01.379-04:002010-03-27T17:36:01.379-04:00Oh, I just realized that you gave me your email! H...Oh, I just realized that you gave me your email! However, I shall send a link to my mother and ask her to check this, so maybe it's better here anyway. And it'll be there for the geneaological nuts of the world...<br /><br />Bill, I should have had my mother contact you--she and my eldest went to King's Mountain and then on to Old Ninety-Six last week, and they wandered around LaurensMarly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-25188526674157506362010-03-27T17:28:05.188-04:002010-03-27T17:28:05.188-04:00I am not really as feckless as our contacts sugges...I am not really as feckless as our contacts suggest! My belief is that I'm just over-busy. But perhaps it is simply fecklessness...<br /><br />I've had some new news--contacted by a writer doing research on a physician who marked graves at Gettysburg. I'll let you know what comes of that.<br /><br />You asked to be walked through our links to Jane Black and John Thomas Black. How marlyhttp://www.marlyyoumans.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-87635229667382885152010-03-27T16:07:05.209-04:002010-03-27T16:07:05.209-04:00Marly,
I did not know if you saw my post so I wan...Marly,<br /><br />I did not know if you saw my post so I wanted to try again. You had said that you have information on our family history. I look forward to hearing your news. I will check back here today and tonight for your reply. You may post here or you may e-mail me at tabbot@earthlink.net .<br /><br />Hope all is well with you and yours and I am excited to learn what you have discovered Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-861109621748749372010-03-13T16:48:37.801-05:002010-03-13T16:48:37.801-05:00Hi Marly,
I'm still here. ... I just saw your...Hi Marly,<br /><br />I'm still here. ... I just saw your post. I would love to hear what ancestral news you have come up with on our family. You may post here or you may e-mail me at tabbot@earthlink.net .<br /><br />I look forward to hearing from you soon.<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />BillBillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-81033359098362172282010-02-21T18:36:39.757-05:002010-02-21T18:36:39.757-05:00Honestly, what a madwoman--Bill, I just remembered...Honestly, what a madwoman--Bill, I just remembered! A year late. Hope you are still there... But I have some interesting ancestral news.marlyhttp://www.marlyyoumans.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-67178938407696463312009-03-24T21:38:00.000-04:002009-03-24T21:38:00.000-04:00Marly,I appreciate your help. No rush... just want...Marly,<BR/><BR/>I appreciate your help. No rush... just wanted to check in to see how things were going.<BR/><BR/>This time of year gets busy with children in school along with everything else we all have on our "plates." ...<BR/><BR/>Take your time,... I don't think our ancestors are going anywhere! :) lol<BR/><BR/>See you in three days...<BR/><BR/>Take care,<BR/><BR/>BillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-7993920578685392632009-03-24T21:23:00.000-04:002009-03-24T21:23:00.000-04:00Hi Bill,I haven't forgotten! My eldest son came ho...Hi Bill,<BR/><BR/>I haven't forgotten! My eldest son came home from college and a thousand other things kicked in at once, including deadlines. Let me hit the one I'm on, and I'll sit down and read it. Meet me back here in three days!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-3186573272302061102009-03-24T20:37:00.000-04:002009-03-24T20:37:00.000-04:00Hi Marly,Sorry that I have not been back in touch ...Hi Marly,<BR/><BR/>Sorry that I have not been back in touch with you before now. ...<BR/><BR/>I got a little side tracked with the children's activities, my research, etc. ...<BR/><BR/>I wanted to check back with you and see what you have been able to come up with on our family history? ...<BR/><BR/>Were you able to find what you were looking for on Col. John Thomas and Jane Black Thomas? ...<BR/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-7830321579887360782009-03-05T01:44:00.000-05:002009-03-05T01:44:00.000-05:00Marly,Thanks! :) ...I look forward to hearing what...Marly,<BR/><BR/>Thanks! :) ...<BR/><BR/>I look forward to hearing what you have on Col. John Thomas, Jane Black Thomas and the rest of our family.<BR/><BR/>See you soon,<BR/><BR/>BillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-50580888766907544422009-03-04T20:10:00.000-05:002009-03-04T20:10:00.000-05:00Bill,Whew! I could not remember what post we were ...Bill,<BR/><BR/>Whew! I could not remember what post we were on...<BR/><BR/>I have found (at last) the book and am searching.<BR/><BR/>More soon!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-51167967822090104012009-02-24T22:16:00.000-05:002009-02-24T22:16:00.000-05:00Hi Marly,Thanks for the response! I appreciate you...Hi Marly,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the response! I appreciate your help with this. I look forward to learning about all you are able to dig up on our family. ...<BR/><BR/>I'll be happy to meet you back here tomorrow.<BR/><BR/>See you then,<BR/><BR/>BillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-85009636478459957402009-02-24T20:03:00.000-05:002009-02-24T20:03:00.000-05:00Hi Bill--Eleven years ago I was living in Greenvil...Hi Bill--<BR/><BR/>Eleven years ago I was living in Greenville, South Carolina, so it's too bad we didn't link up then! I do know about Sally Jo and the Hance line, and my mother (youngest of nine, eight of whom survived to adulthood) remembers her well.<BR/><BR/>Yes, I can walk you through that chain, if I can dig up my mother's family history, cobbled together by my Uncle Louis, my mother's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-90902731451262986012009-02-24T19:18:00.000-05:002009-02-24T19:18:00.000-05:00I came across a post on your blog dated September ...I came across a post on your blog dated September 7, 2006 and another one dated November 29, 2006 and I discovered that you and I are cousins of some sort. Sally Jo Hance's father, James Washington Hance, was the brother of my great great grandmother, Eugenia Hance who became a "Crews" when she married my great great grandfather, Thomas Bissell Crews. In fact, James Washington HanceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1164857034988814702006-11-29T22:23:00.000-05:002006-11-29T22:23:00.000-05:00P. S. The spelling of "Blanche Corrine" in your no...P. S. <BR/><BR/>The spelling of "Blanche Corrine" in your note is prettier and more "regular" than what is in my family history. Is that correct, do you think? Of course, without spelling reform, I suppose people could spell as they chose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1164856551548557262006-11-29T22:15:00.000-05:002006-11-29T22:15:00.000-05:00Hi Pat, my cousin of some sort or another--I've go...Hi Pat, my cousin of some sort or another--<BR/><BR/>I've got some other family photographs that I'll post from time to time--my mother is scanning some curious old ones, and I pop one on now and then. There are others elsewhere here, though I can't recall how many so far. Four, maybe?<BR/><BR/>"de Teel Patterson Tiller" is an interesting name, so I think you're fine without the "Hance." "Hance Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1164854342865615452006-11-29T21:39:00.000-05:002006-11-29T21:39:00.000-05:00Was heartened to stumble on your site and to see f...Was heartened to stumble on your site and to see family faces staring out. I am great grandson of Blanche Corrine Hance. My father was de Teel Patterson Tiller, his father Theodore Hance Tiller - one of a "raft" of children to Blanche (his mother) and John Winston Tiller. So that makes us relatives of some sort - never clear on the "once and twice removed business". Pleasure to meet you. My Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1157717876875993722006-09-08T08:17:00.000-04:002006-09-08T08:17:00.000-04:00Yes, I think that's true... My grandmother was the...Yes, I think that's true... My grandmother was the first person I know about in that family with any college education, though there were certainly professional people who came in generations before her. She was a bright woman. Then she moved to the boonsticks in Collins and started out with a one-room house that eventually grew into a big Queen Anne.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1157692920284022082006-09-08T01:22:00.000-04:002006-09-08T01:22:00.000-04:00It's strange, but what immediately struck me was h...It's strange, but what immediately struck me was how alike they seem! Funny how two people looking at the same photo can have exactly opposite opinions. I think part of the similarity for me is the way they look so identically alert and intelligent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1157666312270424722006-09-07T17:58:00.000-04:002006-09-07T17:58:00.000-04:00I don't know; they're both square-heads, and they ...I don't know; they're both square-heads, and they might have the same eyebrows. Maybe even the nose. Old lady noses are bigger than young lady noses.<BR/><BR/>I'll ask my mama.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1157656271964746332006-09-07T15:11:00.000-04:002006-09-07T15:11:00.000-04:00Very sombre, and yet not, photograph. They don't l...Very sombre, and yet not, photograph. They don't look anything alike! How clever of you to have these photos and to know so much family history!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com