Husband of Sarah Dunnavant.
Inscription: Pvt Co. A 53 Tenn Infantry CSA.
from research records of Ruth Hasten Walsh:
In the 1940's, 1950's and subsequent years, there were two prominent researchers of the Hastings, Dunnavant and their collateral families found in early records of Giles Co., TN, Limestone Co., AL, Lincoln co., TN and Madison Co., AL. They were Nellie Jones Smith of Pulaski, TN and Loraine Story of Greenville, TX. Some of their research differs, mostly because, as Nellie said in a 1995 telephone conversation (and again in a 1998 personal interview) because "I hired a professional researcher in Virginia who just wasn't that familiar with all the available records. Whereas Loraine and her mother Virginia took train trips to Virginia and Caswell Co., NC where they looked up the records themselves. They found records the profession researcher I paid good money to didn't look at." Both Nellie and Loraine said, "We now know from records beginning to show up in recent years that some older family members we interviewed had faulty memories. At the time each of did the best we could do with records available to us. You have access to records we didn't know about or couldn't look at. Sometimes we conferred and reached agreements on our differences, sometimes we didn't."
Inscription: Pvt Co. A 53 Tenn Infantry CSA.
from research records of Ruth Hasten Walsh:
In the 1940's, 1950's and subsequent years, there were two prominent researchers of the Hastings, Dunnavant and their collateral families found in early records of Giles Co., TN, Limestone Co., AL, Lincoln co., TN and Madison Co., AL. They were Nellie Jones Smith of Pulaski, TN and Loraine Story of Greenville, TX. Some of their research differs, mostly because, as Nellie said in a 1995 telephone conversation (and again in a 1998 personal interview) because "I hired a professional researcher in Virginia who just wasn't that familiar with all the available records. Whereas Loraine and her mother Virginia took train trips to Virginia and Caswell Co., NC where they looked up the records themselves. They found records the profession researcher I paid good money to didn't look at." Both Nellie and Loraine said, "We now know from records beginning to show up in recent years that some older family members we interviewed had faulty memories. At the time each of did the best we could do with records available to us. You have access to records we didn't know about or couldn't look at. Sometimes we conferred and reached agreements on our differences, sometimes we didn't."
Husband of Sarah Dunnavant.
Inscription: Pvt Co. A 53 Tenn Infantry CSA.
from research records of Ruth Hasten Walsh:
In the 1940's, 1950's and subsequent years, there were two prominent researchers of the Hastings, Dunnavant and their collateral families found in early records of Giles Co., TN, Limestone Co., AL, Lincoln co., TN and Madison Co., AL. They were Nellie Jones Smith of Pulaski, TN and Loraine Story of Greenville, TX. Some of their research differs, mostly because, as Nellie said in a 1995 telephone conversation (and again in a 1998 personal interview) because "I hired a professional researcher in Virginia who just wasn't that familiar with all the available records. Whereas Loraine and her mother Virginia took train trips to Virginia and Caswell Co., NC where they looked up the records themselves. They found records the profession researcher I paid good money to didn't look at." Both Nellie and Loraine said, "We now know from records beginning to show up in recent years that some older family members we interviewed had faulty memories. At the time each of did the best we could do with records available to us. You have access to records we didn't know about or couldn't look at. Sometimes we conferred and reached agreements on our differences, sometimes we didn't."
Inscription: Pvt Co. A 53 Tenn Infantry CSA.
from research records of Ruth Hasten Walsh:
In the 1940's, 1950's and subsequent years, there were two prominent researchers of the Hastings, Dunnavant and their collateral families found in early records of Giles Co., TN, Limestone Co., AL, Lincoln co., TN and Madison Co., AL. They were Nellie Jones Smith of Pulaski, TN and Loraine Story of Greenville, TX. Some of their research differs, mostly because, as Nellie said in a 1995 telephone conversation (and again in a 1998 personal interview) because "I hired a professional researcher in Virginia who just wasn't that familiar with all the available records. Whereas Loraine and her mother Virginia took train trips to Virginia and Caswell Co., NC where they looked up the records themselves. They found records the profession researcher I paid good money to didn't look at." Both Nellie and Loraine said, "We now know from records beginning to show up in recent years that some older family members we interviewed had faulty memories. At the time each of did the best we could do with records available to us. You have access to records we didn't know about or couldn't look at. Sometimes we conferred and reached agreements on our differences, sometimes we didn't."
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