Church in My Garden – A Jacki Kellum Garden Journal Post for Autumn

The grasses are arching above the places where the perennials had bloomed only weeks ago. The Purple Fountain grass is darker than most of my garden now, which is still a lush, verdant green. Like icing on its cake, feathery festoons topple from the tips of each spire of the ornamental grass. Some of the…

Memories of Going to the Fair

I grew up in the Bootheel of Southeast Missouri, which is about 120 miles up the Mississippi River from  Memphis, Tennessee. The highlight of my autumns was that of going to the Midsouth Fair in Memphis. My mother will soon be 97, and every time I see her, I hear her repeat: “Brush your teeth…

Squirrels at Harvest Time

Many people view harvest time as the weeks during which Starbucks serves Pumpkin Spice Latte, or as the time when the craft stores line their shelves with fake pumpkins, orange garlands, and scarecrows that are not scary at all. The funny thing about craft stores, however, is that if you move a couple of rows…

The Duvals of Kentucky from Virginia

Published in 1938 HIS book was written to meet the need of a permanent record of the history of the descendants of four brothers of the old Virginia family of Col. Samuel DuVal of “Mt. Comfort,” Henrico County, Va.   On this plantation of five hundred acres was built the Chestnut  Hill and  Highland  Park additions…

The Claiborne Family Tree from England to Virginia to Southeast Missouri

Rowland Cleburne [Cliburn] Born about 1364 He married Katherine de Lancaster Born 1415 II. John Cleburne Born about 1445 – 1487 He married Elizabeth Curwen| Born 1445 – 1489  III. Thomas De Cleburne Born about 1471 – 1573 He married Joan Sanford Born 1447  IV. Sir Robert John Cleburne Born about 1471 – 1553 He married Emmotte KirkbrideAnn Layton Born 1465 – 1535 V. Edmund Cleburne Born about 1502…