This is a result of many long years of research.. Our love of family and our desire to learn about the lives of our ancestors has taken us to many dusty libraries. We have found many surprises in those old tattered books.
     We mailed countless applications to state and federal archives for war records,pensions....ordered books,subscribed to genealogical publications,copied census records. We unearthed stories that were inspiring,& amusing as well as sad,even tragic. We found civil war soldiers that died in battle ,a tragic death in Andersonville  prison camp and brothers   fighting against brothers who never forgave each other.
     We found our gggrandfather who was a Missionary Baptist preacher....a circuit rider that  rode horseback through forests and trails. He would preach to his followers in a clearing with a log for a bench and a stump for his pulpit.
      I still pull out the old records and family Bibles. Now we have the internet but I really miss those dusty basements and old yellowed books.I miss sitting in the floor of those libraries with a stack of books,reading for hours. I only stopped to run to the copy machine. I could never have created this site without the help of my brother Larry Powell and his wife (and dear friend) Mary Lynn (Nielson), and  our cousin Mack Caudle who was an early contributor to our Powell-Mayo-Thetford-Vick family . Sadly Larry passed away May 20,2019.
 history.  Our mother,Kathleen Crider Powell and our grandmother Nellie McDonald Crider shared their memories and family stories. There are still many more mysteries to unravel. 02 Oct 2018