WHAT A TOUCHING STORY,IT WOULD BE GOOD IF WE ALL KNEW OUR FAMILY HISTORY. FOR SOME OF US JUST KNOWN A LITTLE IS A BLESSING.I' FEEL SO SORRY FOR THOSE WHO DO HAVE A CLUE WHO THEY BELONG TOO..
Your mind must work while you sleep! You do such beautiful and inspirational pages!
Any family history is precious, and you are so blessed to have so many stories and photos! I have to say more importantly...future generations are blessed to have you and the wonderful pages you create!
This is wonderful!! So awesome that the two of you are able to find all this "missing" history!! Your daddy would be proud!!! I love how this photo blends into the background so perfectly!! Great job on this page!!
WOOO! This is wonderful, he looks so young. How old do you think he was when this was made. You did a beautiful job with this oldie and the LO, not to mention the history. Wouldn't you just die to walk into some courthouse and find Lacey.....and however they decided to spell the name at the time. I know I would! Wonderful work Minihaha.
Oliver Hugh Hunigan 1844-1923 When my dad was in the Hospital dying he said to me I wish someone had done a family history . We know so little about our family name ...Well little did I know that when I promised him that I would 24 yrs ago that it would take me on a journey that I still continue on to this day. The only thing that anyone knew about the Hunigans were that Oliver my great grandfather was an Orphan from Floyd Co va. Later research found he was born in Carroll Co in 1844 but the county line between where he was born and later lived was just a couple of miles. When Blueridge and I embarked on this journey this was about all we knew except a few tales that cannot be proven. We we found out quiet a bit. He was raised by a family named Duncan whom we have never been able to find a connection. He lived with them until he went to fight in the civil War. He was wounded at the 1st Battle of Bull Run!! He later rejoined and was taken prisoner at the First battle of Chattanooga. He was taken to the famous and dreaded Andersonville Prison in GA. He survived the war. He was missing in the 1870s we cannot find him on any census. But in the 1880s he was in Greenbrier West Va where he made liquor and sold it to the White House in Washington DC. During President Grants service.. In the 1880s he returned to Floyd Co Va and set up a small store. He married a beautiful little Indian Girl who was 18 yrs younger than him and they had a family around 1900 the family moved to Sullivan Co tn where his decendants still live. Oliver died in 1923 after a series of strokes. We found after over 20 yrs of searching that his parents were named Lacey Hunigan and Mary Bobbett. This is something we were always led to believe that no one knew, but we found proof. The older members of the family told us to leave it alone but Becky and I just dug harder what they were hiding we still dont know. We also found a George Hunigan who married Rebecca Daniel in Grayson Co Va whom we believe was the father of Lacey. No proof just by default there were no other hunigans per census and other records in Va at that time. George from records came from Donegal Ireland and his father was Charles. More research needs to be done on this. Daddy never got to see the results of our search but I am sure he would have been proud. Like us he wanted to know his heritage but the older people did not want us to know. This picture says on the back DAddy taken at the old home place which would have been Floyd Co va and this would have been around 1890
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