Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night again –
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) Let’s play the game “Two Truths – One Lie.” Tell three family stories – two must be true, and one must be a lie – an untruth.
2) Have your readers guess which story was the lie, and their reasons for picking that story.
Which of the following are true and which is the lie?
- My fourth great grandfather, William Harding of Newburgh, New York, owned a sloop called The Debby. William and his sloop helped transport reinforcements to Gen. Gates at Albany during the revolutionary war. Later, William joined his brother, George and George’s family in New York city, taking with him 3 horses and one cow. He was forced to leave The Debby behind. After the war, William and George and their families migrated to New Brunswick.
- My grandfather, Edward Osmond Briles had a variety of occupations. As a young man, he ran a threshing machine in Allen county, Kansas. A few years later, he was the owner of Briles Auto Repair and Garage in Iola, Kansas. By 1930, he was known as the ‘picture show man’ in Buffalo, Kansas. In 1933, E O Briles owned the Lyric Theater in Emporia Kansas, where he was arrested multiple times for operating a picture show on Sunday.
- My 4th great grandfather, James Crawford was a resident of Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky in 1780. Also in Fort Boonesborough at the time was his wife, Rebecca Anderson, Rebecca’s father, John Anderson, and her sister Mary Anderson Kennedy.
Which story is the lie? Why to you think it is the lie?
I think #3 is the lie because I’ve followed your travails trying to sort out the early Crawford families.
You are correct. My James Crawford was not married to Rebecca Anderson. Additionally, none of the Crawfords were in Fort Boonesborough. Rebecca’s father and some siblings were in Fort Boonesborough, but Rebecca was still in Virginia at the time. Her first husband was a Maxwell and her second husband was James Crawford, owner of land along Paint Lick Creek in Garrard county, Kentucky prior to 1800.
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