This past year I became a member of the DAR. Not thru the ancestor or ancestors that I had been working on but through one an ancient cousin of mine had done back in the 1970s. Her name was Theora HAMBLETT. Around NW Mississippi she used to be a fairly known primitive artist. Her work was featured on one of the UNICEF calendars etc. Our ancestor Thomas Wortham was a shop keeper who supplies food and other supplies to the soldiers. Not the greatest of services but one worthy of recognition.
Theora's work can be found at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. She has a permanent exhibit there.
One of the nice things about Theora was that her father and my great great great grandfather were brothers! Imagine when I visited with her as a young woman and she was calling my great great great grandfather "Uncle Buck"
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