Quote Originally Posted by Ted Crocker View Post
There is a little bit of doubt in that way, but also on my father's side, the family line or history isn't "spoken" of and it's pretty much lost...
I can identify in part with this.

There is one line in my family that isn't very well researched Ted. It's my (maternal) grandfather's line.
The family just didn't talk about it much, would clam up if it was brought up.
In later years some tid-bits have slipped out.
Seems the reason they didn't talk much was "talk" back in the day could get a family member arrested or shot. See from post-Civil War days right up to the 1920's my family back in south Missouri (Ozarks) & western Kentucky were full of outlaws. My recently deceased grandfather (born in 1916) even remembered that as a small child an uncle would always go bout with a "big horse pistol" on his hip & one eye open for the law.
Whenever I asked, my grandmother would chime in that it was best to let sleeping dogs lie.
Unfortunately since most of the older generation chose to forget, the younger generation has forgotten, thus research is difficult at best.
I just got word that the last of that generation (my great-uncle Dooley) passed away late last night at age 99.
So the quest just got a step tougher