MarieB's Genealogy Blog--Southeastern USA

The images are scans of my Dad, Billy Joe Cooke's 6th Grade Report Card.  He was attending Dupont Grammar School in Old Hickory, Davidso...

In researching my paternal grandparents I have been studying anything to do with Dupont and their Old Hickory TN location where my grandpare...

Photos of cars taken in the 1940s.  These pictures are all from the collection given to me by a member of the Douglas Family who were neighb...

 The folks on Sesame Street have been teaching the importance of the people in your neighborhood for years. There is even a meme circulating...

  From the Old Hickory Social News column in The Tennessean(Nashville TN) of Thur. December 12th 1940 page 12.  Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Jakes hav...

Found among my paternal Grandmother, Pearl Gray Jakes Cooke's papers, this letter is part of the archived collection of my families pape...

1940 Davidson Co TN Dist 4 Old Hickory  This information is what was given to the enumerator for the 1940 census.  Please consult the cens...

My Dad was born in October of 1930.  He lived at 911 Dodson Street until the late 1940s.  More than likely the majority of these people woul...

Old Hickory Record Vol 21 No. 4 March  26, 1971 pg 2 Obituaries section This is a newsletter for DuPont employees and was also mailed out t...

Old Hickory Record Vol 21 No. 4 March  26, 1971 pg 2 Obituaries section This is a newsletter for DuPont employees and was also mailed out t...

This article was in The Old Hickory Record a company paper distributed by DuPont .  Presumably this would have been published in late Sept...

Headlines From Dupont's Company Paper(Old Hickory, TN) Rayon Record  Newspaper Aug 5, 1953 Two Veteran Maintenance Men Retire Effectiv...

This post continues me gathering more information about the Old Hickory residents who lived near my paternal grandparents.  My grandparents ...

[Edited 12/20/2018 to include a link to Part 2 at end of this post] In February of 1927, my grandparents were living at 1009 Clarke Street...

My paternal grandparents and their children are mentioned in the Tennesseans' Old Hickory News column a number of times during the ...

Today is the birthday of my Paternal Grandmother, Pearl Gray Jakes Cooke.  She was born on this day in 1891 in Bell Buckle, a town...

Today is the birthday of my Paternal Grandmother, Pearl Gray Jakes Cooke.  She was born on this day in 1891 in Bell Buckle, a town in Bedfor...

These pictures were taken in Old Hickory TN during the mid 1920s.  My paternal grandfather, Thomas DeWitt Cooke and his family moved the...

This edition of Smile for the Camera is the 18th edition and the word prompt is Travel. My contribution is a picture of my Uncle Morris B. ...

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 ...