Sapp – Page 2 – The Kingealogy

Favorite Name

February 10, 2018February 19, 2018Blogging, Surnames#52ancestors, #AncestorChallenge2018, #FHWC2018, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2018, Ancestor Challenge 2018, Family History Writing Challenge 2018, Guthrie, Jackson, Keenan, McDonough, Moore, Sapp, Satterfield, Triplett, Trippett

[dropcap]I [/dropcap]have so many great names in my family tree. A favorite name for boys would be Christian Alexander and a favorite name for girls would be Catherine Scarlett. Picking the names of my children

Man of the House

February 8, 2018February 17, 2018Blogging, Personal#52stories, 52 Stories in 52 Weeks, King, North Carolina, Sapp, West Virginia

[dropcap]M[/dropcap]y greatest achievement or accomplishment was the prompt I was going to work on next. I could not think of anything. I was talking to my son about how hard it was for me to

Greatest Academic Achievement

February 7, 2018February 19, 2018Blogging, Personal#52stories, 52 Stories in 52 Weeks, Sapp

[dropcap]M[/dropcap]y greatest academic achievement is not a single award or diploma. It is the events of one summer and the events that led up to it. While in high school I was in a car

Music Memories

February 5, 2018February 6, 2018Blogging, Personal#52stories, 52 Stories in 52 Weeks, Gorby, Sapp

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne of my first memories of having a strong sense of pride in myself was the last two years of junior high school in Advanced Band Class. I first played the clarinet in elementary school with my teacher

My Scarf of Many Colors

February 5, 2018February 16, 2018Blogging, Personal#52stories, 52 Stories in 52 Weeks, King, Sapp

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ontinuing with the theme of Goals and Achievements for 52 Stories is something I taught myself to do, without little help from someone else. The answer for me is loom knitting. I am still learning. With any

Going to see my AUNT

February 1, 2018February 17, 2018Blogging, Surnames#FHWC2018, Darrah, Dean, Family History Writing Challenge 2018, Sapp, Shuman, Yoho

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] was at a Yoho family reunion with my Grandma Maxine, up at the old, white schoolhouse on the hill in Wileyville. My Aunt Geraldine was there. I clearly remember her smiling down at me

Navigating Wetzel County

September 29, 2017February 17, 2018Personal, PlacesCarney, Dean, Haynes, Longwell, McIntyre, Moore, Morris, Phillips, Sapp, Shuman, Spraggs, Strobes, West Virginia, Wetzel, Yoho

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e are in Wetzel County and turn down the road that I know will take me home. The sun beats down from in between the ancient trees making the light dance. Burlington Hill and Tarpin Ridge

Postponing Posts

October 11, 2016February 17, 2018Blogging, PersonalNorth Carolina, Sapp, West Virginia

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his last year has been one of the best and worst of my life. Our family found a new church and have been active in our church. Tom and Alex got baptized on the same day of my confirmation to

Morgan Clarke Bier – My Pap Pap

February 3, 2015April 16, 2018SurnamesBier, Chapline, Obituary, Sapp

[dropcap]M[/dropcap]organ Clarke Bier, is my grandfather, my Pap Pap. On Thursday, January 29th, 2015 Pap Pap passed away with his daughters at his side. I want to talk about his life and our relationship, not his

What is Kingealogy?

January 1, 2015February 17, 2018Descent, Places, SurnamesAnderson, Bier, Bohannon, Brewer, British, Burgess, Byrd, Caldwell, Cavalier, Chapline, Cherokee, Crossland, Darrah, Dickson, Emert, England, English, Furbee, German, Germany, Goodnite, Hancock, Howard, Ireland, Irish, Jackson, King, Landon, Marshall, McMahan, Moore, Myers, Rainwater, Randolph, Runyon, Ruthven, Sapp, Scotland, Shuman, Sottish, Tennessee, Triplett, Trotter, Virginia, Webb, West Virginia, Willey, Wolfe, Yoho

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n basic terms The Kingealogy is the study of Kings, but in our case, it is a twenty plus year journey of our family genealogy. For me it started in childhood with Dad teaching me our past,