I Am Digging It

Digging into our family history creates deep connections. Genealogy is about finding our roots. As we research our family tree, we realize how our lives are intertwined with the history of our great nation. My family history includes the Quillin family, the Ewing family, the McNair family, the Jones family, the Bridges family, the King family and the Hulsey family. It is an honor to share their family stories. Search each family name by clicking the labels on the bottom right side.

Thursday, October 30, 2025

William King and Emily Hulsey Marriage License

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Emily Hulsey King at home in Taylor County, Texas

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Emily Hulsey Sources

MY Go-To SOURCES

Hulsey website DISAPPEARS

I discovered it was missing on 28 Jan 2025

Hulsey, Head and Huff Families in North Georgia

Once again, a huge family website with research accumulated / assimilated together has once again disappeared from the internet.
Their research was substantial, and I will forever use them as one of my sources. Makes it tough with challenges.
I did however fine a tree on Ancestry by William Huff 1941 I would think that this is a direct family member.
With this last name, I would think that he made a ‘rough’ tree from the information…which is now defunct.
List of this website…no longer accessible….all are the same website

hulseyheadhuff.net ****
https://www.hulseyheadhuff.net › ghtout › ghtindex.html
Hulsey, Head and Huff Families in North Georgia
2782 - Individuals 663 - Surnames 1220 - Family Groups 1525 - Earliest Birth Year 2008 - Latest Birth Year Family tree of William Harrison (Bill) 1941 Huff *****
williamhuff1941
3605 Town Creek Rd, Cleveland, GA 30528 Age: 60+
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Last active Over a year ago
Family History Experience Advanced
Since 2004
Researches almost every day

Research Interests
Huff, Hulsey Head
1620 - 2010
Huff, Hulsey Head
GA and past locations
1620 - 2010

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hulseyheadhuff.net
https://hulseyheadhuff.net › bertie_head.html
The Hulsey, Head and Huff Families of North Georgia.
Bertie Lenora Head, born on 16 Apr 1885 and was one of six children of Joseph McDonald “Mack” Head (1862-1920) and Laura May Smith (1866-1943), his second wife. The Head family was of …

ANOTHER FAITHFUL FOLLOWER, though I never corresponded with her, we always followed the same research and concluded the same information.
Annette Armstrong Berksan

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/6773818/person/24014521423/facts

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Emily M Hulsey Sources

Sources for Emily M Hulsey

Personal Interview: Maude Emma King (daughter of Emily), 1990, Abilene, Texas.

Personal Interview: Carolita Jones Quillin, (great-granddaughter of Emily), 1990, Abilene, Texas.

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/113200701/person/230112246738/facts the family tree of WilliamHuff1941 who I believe made a tree for the http://hulseyheadhuff.net/index.html that can NO LONGER be accessed. It’s one of those wonderful family research sites that got swallowed up by Ancestry.

"United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCQS-JXN : Tue Jan 21 15:07:07 UTC 2025), Entry for Jefferson P Hulsey and Sarah Hulsey, 1870. Listed as Margaret E Hulsey

"United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8GV-34S : Mon Jan 20 08:19:58 UTC 2025), Entry for Jeffrson Hulseg and Sahah Hulseg, 1880.

"Texas, Births and Christenings, 1840-1981", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4L81-BM6Z : 12 March 2020), Emily Margaret Hulsey in entry for Beulah Pearl King, 1892.

"United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3PV-WMW : Thu Oct 09 15:41:53 UTC 2025), Entry for William M King and Emma H King, 1900.

"United States, Census, 1910", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M23Z-DYJ : Wed Aug 13 17:33:01 UTC 2025), Entry for Will L King and Emmalyn M King, 1910.

"United States, Census, 1920", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHBZ-BZ7 : Sun Jan 05 01:19:47 UTC 2025), Entry for William L King and Emmely M King, 1920.

United States Federal Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Precinct 1, Taylor, Texas; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .[online database: Ancestry.com]

"Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3C3-DHQ : Mon Jun 09 23:32:38 UTC 2025), Entry for Emily M King and J P Hensley, 5 July 1933.

https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_Kent_County,_Virginia_Compiled_Genealogies, New Kent County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies, [Hulsey] Pero, Lou. The Hulsey Book. Bend, Ore.: L. Pero, 1989. FHL Book 929.273 H879p

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Emily M Hulsey 1862 - 1933 History Sheet

Emily M Hulsey History Sheet

1862 - 1933

Emily M Hulsey was born on 6 July 1862 in Spring Place, Murray County, Georgia. She was the sixth child of ten children born to Jefferson Parks Hulsey and Sarah E. (Haney) Hulsey. This was a difficult time in American history as the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. It escalated from there. Her father had already enlisted in the Georgia Infantry.

After the war when Emily was 8 years old, the family lived in Dalton in the Milita District # 872 in Whitfield County, Georgia. She is listed as Margaret E Hulsey. (My source was her daughter, Maude Emma King. Maude always called her Emily Melissa Hulsey. Maude was our family historian, and I knew her and interviewed her for family history.) Emily is listed as Margaret E Hulsey in some censuses.

When Emily was 17 years old, the family had moved to Ball Ground, Murray, Georgia. Listed in 1880 census: Jefferson 52, Sarah 56, Smith 22, Sarah Jane 20, Emily 17, Caroline 15, Francis 13, Thomas 12, Lydia C 9. Three more children are also listed: Mary 13, Sarah Louvenia 12, Julia 10. These girls were the daughters of Pleasant Andrew Hulsey (Emily’s oldest brother) and his wife Lydia Sarah Junkins Hulsey. Pleasant and Lydia both died in 1870 along with an infant child, Lydia who had just been born. Jefferson and Sarah took in these orphan children, so Emily would have known them like sisters. In fact, Emily and Sarah Louvenia would eventually marry brothers from the King family. Emily M Hulsey married William Lazarus King, son of John King (1804-1884) and Ava Rilla (Hood) King. Sarah Louvenia Hulsey married James Alexander King who was also the son of John King and Ava Rilla.

On 19 Jan 1882 in Dennis, Georgia, Emily married William Lazarus King (1859-1949). This union produced 14 children.

In 1890 (no census records), Maude retold the story of Emily and William’s move to Erath County, Texas. With 6 children in a covered wagon the family relocated to Erath County where another child was born. By 1900, Emily and William had moved to Moody, McLennan County, Texas. They eventually moved and settled in Taylor County, Texas. Their daughter Maude recounted her journey with her father to find a place for them to live near Abilene, Texas.

After Emily and William moved to Texas, they had 2 more children, Rufus Burleson King and Edna Jewell King. They lived eventually lived in Tye, Taylor County, Texas, a small community which would be located where what would become Dyes Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas.

Emily M King passed away on 5 July 1933 after suffering a stroke.

Sunday, October 19, 2025

May God Use Me For Good

Writing My Own Devotionals By Nancy Quillin Long

Back early in retirement I was reading a devotional every day, which often made me look differently at things in my world. I could see parallels all around me. God was speaking to me from the natural world and by the people who surround me.

I began to write devotionals about this God’s majestic world.

I came across this journal book that I had begun (2009) and now find the urgency to place my thoughts in a more secure place.

Jan 2010

May God Use me For Good

Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Much like the wonder of God’s grace – Jesus was sent to carry our burdens

The wonder of things seen through the eyes of a child are sometimes the very things that are burdens to adults. In the olden days, every resource was valuable, and nothing was wasted. My mother’s clothes were homemade, and her underwear were made from flour sacks. She was raised during the Great Depression. The discarded fabric scraps were never wasted but were sown into delicate patterns as a quilt top. Everyone of us could recognize a special piece in the quilt. We were all part of that special pattern. *

When Mother was a small girl in rural north Texas, the men would work the fields in the morning and return for the noon time meal. Once they were fed, the men returned to the fields for the remainder of the day. Once the dishes were cleared, the womenfolk which included neighbors, relatives, and friends, would gather to work on the current quilt. A frame which was suspended from the ceiling would be lowered and all the women would work around the edges to quilt by hand as they attached the batting to the quilted piece. As a child, Mother loved resting on the underside of this huge workspace, watching with intrigue the hands of each individual as they weaved the needles in and out, up and down, and around. She admired the different techniques. These women had the ultimate goal of finishing a treasured blanket which would bring needed comfort during cold winter nights. It was a time when the ladies could socialize and as the voices droned on, a child underneath found awe in this seemingly simple task; these tasks that were at times heavy burdens for mothers and fathers. Yet a child would look on with utter contentment not fully understanding the responsibility these women faced in their daily lives.

This is much like the burden that Jesus Christ carried as he died on the cross for our sins

*It certainly brings the quilt full circle to realize how much I was loved, recognized as being valuable, giving me a sense of ultimate functionality and the ability to lean on one another as we must lean on God to carry our burdens.

Dear Lord, Make each day the same for me in that I will find comfort in your words. Let me recognize the value of living my life for you, that you may use me as an instrument in your hands so that others may see Jesus through me.