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Showing posts with label Nashville. Show all posts
Sunday, September 10, 2023

J.G. Cook & D.V. Putnam--guests at Broadway House Hotel

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The "From the Hotels" section of the paper for 13th September 1888 listed several familiar names among those at the Broadway House...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Receipt from Dr. Andrew Hollabaugh, M.D.

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 Two of the items in the Cooke/Jakes Family Archives binder are receipts from where my grandmother was a patient of Dr. Andrew Hollabaugh.  ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Women's Apparel--Fox on 5th Avenue--Nashville TN--1948

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June Cooke Brannon Among the things that my paternal Grandmother had in her Scrapbooking box were two store credit/layaway payment ...
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Monday, August 06, 2018

Unmailable Letters in Nashville PO--Mon. July 18, 1870

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Unmailable Letters at the Nashville PO(TN) on July 18, 1870 This article is particularly interesting to me because it gives the explana...
Monday, February 26, 2018

One of my favorite Ancestry Databases

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One of my favorite databases at Ancestry.com is the U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 . In the 1990s when I was just beginning my research, ...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Finding Cousin Ruth in the 1940 Federal Census

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This post is a continuation of my previous post about my Dad's paternal 1st Cousin, Margaret Ruth Thompson Cooper .  If you haven't...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

An Address--Past and Present--Ruth Thompson Cooper

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My Dad's paternal 1st cousin Margaret Ruth Thompson Cooper passed away in 1941 from tuberculosis.  I have a digital copy of her death...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Uncle Morris' Bowling Score from The Tennessean(1959)

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My Dad's older brother, Morris Cooke enjoyed bowling.  A search on his name at Newspapers.com included this entry from a 1959 Tennessea...
Friday, September 01, 2017

Bankrupt Notices Several Middle TN Counties--March 1842--Part 1

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Bankrupt Notices from The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee)--23 Mar 1842(Wed) Pg. 3 The following are the persons filing from Bedford, Coff...
Monday, August 07, 2017

Ancestors and Alcohol

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The Daily Republican Banner  Sat. Oct  13, 1838 pg 1 An Advertisement from 1838 Nashville TN newspaper about wine and brandy available...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Beckman family in 1930 Nashville City Directory.

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A follow-up to my post from last Friday about finding my daughter's Paternal 2nd Gr Grandparents and their son(from Franklin Co. Indiana...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017

Postcard to Pearl---Panama City, Florida Nov. 28, 1952

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I believe this postcard is from Pearl's brother, William "Bill" Bryan Jakes, whose wife was Georgia B. Jakes.  The Lula menti...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

How the houses my Grandparents lived in look today--Part 2

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Another of the homes of my Grandparents, Thomas Dewitt & Pearl Gray Jakes Cooke 1401 Forrest Avenue--They lived here in the early 1960...

How the houses my Grandparents lived in look today-- Part 1

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Thank You,  Grandma Cooke for gluing the envelopes in your scrapbooks.    This helped me to determine where you lived at different times by ...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Listing of TN/KY Hospitals Participating in Credit Plan of Nashville Regional Blood Center

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 Since Halloween is tomorrow I thought this post was seasonally appropriate. The following scans are of  a letter which my Grandfather, Th...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Clues from Pearl

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I've spent the last few weeks pouring over old letters postcards and receipts that my grandmother had in her scrapbooks. I was able to ...