52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is a series of weekly prompts to get you to think about an ancestor and share something about them. The weekly prompt is provided by www.amyjohnsoncrow.com. The prompt for the week of April 13 is "A Quiet Life." I decided to interpret this prompt to highlight the "Quiet Life" of my wife’s great-great-grandmother, Susan F. Moody.
We have traveled a long way in this series. We started with a handwritten note from a grandmother, proved a brotherhood through 19th-century tax ledgers, and stood on the battlefields of the Revolution with Moses Epps.
When we began, the goal was to prove that Daniel and William Epps were brothers and that the Moses Epps identified as their father was the same man. We’ve done that. But today, we push past the finish line. This document doesn't just confirm Moses; it reveals the generation that came before him—the bedrock of the entire Halifax cluster.
To truly understand the Epps family, we have to go back to the "darker, deeper roots" of the family, to the couple who first carved a home out of the Virginia wilderness: Joshua and Betty Epps.
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is a series of weekly prompts designed to encourage researchers to share the stories of those who came before us, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. The prompt for the week of April 6 is "Unexpected," which is the perfect lens through which to view the discovery that finally shattered a new brick wall in the Miller family tree.