FAMILY NEWS!
Pleased to share that my aunt Ruby Lyons-Carver
is rebounding quickly from her heart attack September 22!
Best wishes to Michael Blackwell (son
of Kathy Stout-Blackwell & grandson of Ella
Lyons-Stout)
on his July 18, 2009 marriage to Brandi Cunningham! The couple resides in Bristol,
VA.
A big thank you to Sandy Scalf (granddaughter of Rudy McKinley "Ken" Scalf & Alma Walker Scalf)
for providing cemetery marker pictures for her family members.
They are on the Cemetery page of our website.
Last year, I completed the family history of my father,
Charles Conley Winebarger's, family.
You can visit the family website and view pictures at
http://winebarger-fordhistorylegacy.tripod.com/index.html
Cousin Debra Broyles provided in July 2009 the e-mail address for
Violet Ritchie Friend who is the daughter of Mary Lyons-Ritchie
who was the half-sister of my grandfather James Andrew "Jimmy" Lyons. Debra
also secured the mailing address of Mary's brother Woodrow Lyons' son,
Roger Lyons!
We hope to secure information and old pictures from them.
I am searching for information on Lucinda “Cindy”
Carr-Scalf born July 6, 1850 & died Aug. 21, 1926 buried
in the Chinquapin Grove Cemetery. She was the second wife of my great-grandfather Isaac
Scalf following the death of great-grandma Nannie Mae Glover-Scalf.
If you can provide Cindy's connection to the Carr family, please contact me!
Our Lyons-Scalf Family
Directory in .pdf file format is available only to direct line family members upon
request. First distributed prior to Christmas 2008, it currently contains current contact information for many of our
relatives!
Contact Sherry Winebarger-Reeter at
m-sreeter@embarqmail.com
Connected April 13, 2009 on Facebook
with Aggie Lyons who is the wife of Robert Ellsworth "Bobby" Lyons, Jr. Bobby's
father is Robert Ellsworth "Bobby" Lyons, Sr. who was a brother of my grandfather
James Andrew "Jimmy" Lyons. Certainly looking forward to getting to know them
better along with sharing information & photographs.
Our condolences to the family of Frank Richards (a
son of Lillie Belle Lyons-Richards) who passed away Feb. 14, 2009.
Lillie Belle was
a sister of my Grandpa James
Andrew "Jimmy" Lyons.
Please send new or updated information,
corrections, obituaries, wonderful memories, pictures, etc. which are representative of your branch of our Lyons-Scalf
family tree.
Thanks to cousin Connie Scalf-Mauk,
I have connected in 2009 with our cousins Gayle Quillen Pond and Kathy
Quillen, daughters of Juanita Scalf-Quillen &
granddaughters of McKinley "Ken" & Alma Scalf.
I look forward to receiving additional information on
their branch of our family tree.
Happy to connect with cousin Debra
Broyles and her mother, Corinne Taylor-Broyles, in late November
2008 to begin gathering details on their branch of our family tree.
Corinne's mother, Nannie Lyons-Taylor,
was a sister of my Grandpa James Andrew
"Jimmy: Lyons.
Restoration was completed in October 2007 on
Grandma Mary Scalf-Lyons' Family Photo Album.
It has been a rewarding project but very time-consuming as
I scanned & restored 378 pictures from her album. Enjoy!
A wonderful time was had by all of the Lyons' girls on July 19, 2007 at Susie's home when Ruby
Lyons Carver, Ellie Lyons-Stout, Carol Crosswhite, Susie Lyons-Winebarger and
Sherry Winebarger-Reeter celebrated a visit with Robert Carver (son of Jack Carver & Carol Crosswhite). Check out pictures of the day on our "Photographs &
Memories" page!
Our sincere condolences to the family of Arco Perry who passed
on June 23, 2007 at the age of 90. Arco was the son of John & Jennie Woods Perry and grandson of Andrew
Johnson "Jonce" Carr & Nannie Woods Carr. He was a lovely person possessing a wonderful sense of humor and charisma.
Arco's input on our family history was precious to me and he will be greatly missed!
Special thanks are extended to Bob
Shell whose genealogy research advice, Woods-Shipley
family research collection, cemetery transcription work, generous nature, vast knowledge of genealogy and friendship are deemed
as priceless!!!
My curiosity about Aunt
Sude Salts whose picture was in Grandma's photo album along with a 1918 postcard from her first cousin William
Salts led me on a very interesting path. I learned Aunt Sude was Susan
Glover-Salts, a sister of my maternal great-grandmother Nannie
Mae Glover Scalf. Through a Salts family
genealogist in Ireland I was connected with Kathy Salts-Gatchell of Maryland who
is a great-granddaughter of Grandma's first cousin William Salts.
Our family history is growing very detailed &
lengthy as I am constantly contacted by many people who were on their own family history pilgrimage asking "Are we
related?". After solving the riddle of how we were related, it seems a shame not to include their information in
our collection.
I hope to have my book "Connecting The Lines"
ready for e-mail distribution to relatives by
the Summer of 2009!
As you know this is a "living book" which means
it will never be completed as long as relatives send marriages, births, deaths, etc. to be included.
Your help is always appreciated!
~ by Sherry Winebarger-Reeter,
Lyons-Scalf Family
Historian
