The Hairston Family
I continued to search for my grandmother’s Hairston
family with hopes of identifying additional pictures. Extended family names
were Thompson, Chisum, and Noah. Bob, a Noah descendant, and my only connection
to other Hairston descendants, sent me a matching copy of the following picture complete with names.
The tattered picture above was sent by my cousin Jackie. Bob had the identical picture and was able to name each person.
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I had not been successful in locating any other
descendants of the Hairston family. Thompsons were too numerous and I didn’t
have enough information about the Chisum family to begin a search. My
grandmother’s cousin, Stella Chisum, married a William Gresham so Gresham, a
less common name than Thompson, became my focus. During one late night search I located more than
twenty researchers at Rootsweb.com looking for Gresham families in Texas. E-mail queries to all resulted in a reply from
Carol who published a Gresham newsletter.
She suggested that I contact Bobby in Stephenville, Texas for more
information about my father’s Gresham cousins.
Bobby called me the next day. He stated that he was not a Gresham, but
that his mother’s uncle married into “my” Gresham family. He also put me in
touch with one of his neighbors, a descendant of the elusive Thompson family. I wrote a letter to Nadine, the Thompson
descendant, and she responded quickly. Her
father was Edd Thompson, another of my grandmother’s first cousins. She
identified her father’s brother, Floyd Thompson, in one of my pictures and she
gave me an address for Juanita, one of Floyd’s daughters.
Next, Part IV - The Letter
Diana
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