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Mary Jane “Mollie” Lee Barlow with her siblings William E. Lee, Orlando Lee, Joseph N. Lee, and Maggie Lee in a vintage family portrait.

GATHERING MY PEOPLE

Stories, memory, and the search for those who came before me.

I am gathering my people—through memory, story, and research.

Some are known through records.
Some through stories.
Some through what was never said.

This is where I bring them together.

  • Matthew Patrick house Warren Massachusetts early colonial home

    Patrick Family Research and Sources — Acknowledging the Work of Stephen B. Patrick

  • Sarah Frances “Fran” BLANCHARD Montgomery Bailey

  • Girtha Rising — Part 2 — Riding Down 82nd St

  • The Search for Jack D. Montgomery

  • Civil War letter header from David Patrick to his mother, Little Rock Arkansas, October 25 1863

    I Can Hear Your Voice — A Letter Home

  • Civil War battlefield sketch showing fallen soldiers after combat

    David Patrick at Jenkins Ferry — The Final Days of a Civil War Soldier

  • Poet Katherine Allen, the grandmother of my great grandmother

  • Mary Jane “Mollie” Lee Barlow stands steady, one arm resting against a tree.

    Mary Jane “Grandma Barlow” Lee – The Dalton Gang and the Sunbonnet

  • Walter Hanson Pedigree Chart

  • Rural landscape of Nordre Land in Oppland, Norway with wooden fence, lake, and forested hills

    Gathering in Aunt Rikka