Mightier Acorns

Journeys through Genealogy and Family History

A parody of a family coat of arms designed with acorns as elements, with the motto "ex gladnis potentioribus" Latin for "from Mighty Acorns"
From Mighty Acorns

Category: Cabell County, WV

Families that lived in the county and research done there.

  • The family of Sarah Jane (Bellamy) Clark Sarah Jane Bellamy was born in Cabell County, Virginia, on 17 December 1836. She is my maternal grandfather’s paternal grandmother—and she is one of My Sixteen. Since writing about her grandfather, Matthew Bellamy, in The Slaveholders, I have spent some time improving the WikiTree profiles for this family, and most…

  • No, not that one – the older one I feel like we all say this a lot, but: Don’t accept unverified research until you’ve checked out the sources. I don’t know who did the research on my Clark family before I started looking into genealogy, but I was given a tree that showed Amos Clark…

  • Travels Through the Places They Knew We weren’t supposed to be here, but Hurricane Helene washed out parts of the Interstate, so we took a more Northern route. Our original itinerary took us from San Antonio to Nashville on day one—a 15-hour sprint followed by a leisurely 12-hour leg to the house in Baltimore via…