new branches to explore

I’ve got the bug for my ancestry research again, not that it ever really went away. I recently discovered a few new clues on my Ancestry.com tree and started clicking around. I got in touch with another member researching some people in my tree and as it turns out they would be my 3rd cousin! They were also the ones to provide me with a few new photos. Like this one to the right, a photo of my great-great grandmother, Fathia Johnson, whom I would peg to be somewhere around 7-9 years old. Fathia was born about 1878 and was the wife of William Fisher Johnson. The state of Mississippi recently placed a historical marker up in honor of William Fisher Johnson for his heroic acts during a Mississippi River flood in 1912. Way cool! Still the searching continues.