Mightier Acorns

A Quick Overview of my work under this surname

When I was new to genealogy, I did what a lot of people do: I uncritically relied on the work of others. A lot of what I know about the Huff family came to me via the late Max Huff. Unfortunately for me, by the time I decided to get serious and disciplined about researching my ancestry, Max was in poor health and he died in 2018 while I was in the middle of my Callin Family History project.

Lesson: life moves fast, and you never know how long you have before the universe deprives you of a resource or mentor.

Kansas to Arizona

My great-grandma Merle Witter was born Hannah Merle Huff (1889-1984) in Allen County, Kansas. By 1910, Merle and her family had migrated to the Arizona Territory where they settled in a town called Glendale.

My grandma Nancy and aunt Vickie always said that the Huffs came to Arizona in a covered wagon – and if I hadn’t been so obsessed with Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies, I might have remembered the stories Great-Grandma Witter surely told me about traveling to the desert and staring a new life only a few years after the last of the wars with the indigenous tribes of the Southwest, and during a time when Pancho Villa threatened to bring the civil war in Mexico north into Arizona.

Virginia to Ohio

The most distant Huff ancestor I have been able to confirm is Lewis Huff who originated in Virginia and moved with his family to Ohio and then Kansas. There are a lot of people to investigate and document, so they will require a great deal of attention.

Someday.

If you’re a Huff descendant, too, I’d love to hear from you.

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