I just found someone's online genealogy in which I have learned quite a few new things about some folks I already knew a little of ---but can't figure out whose work it is. Someone associated with Decklerbooks.com. I hope we can communicate sometime.
Anyway, I now know a little more about Aunt Bam's bunch. Mary Alabama Jackson was my Great-Great-Grandfather Samuel Parker Jackson's little sister. My Aunt Opal knew her as "Aunt Bam." I knew that Bam was married to a Mr. Ray Dean, but this new source I just came across says he was James Ray Dean from Missouri. Folks probably knew him as Ray.
Bam had a daughter named Mattie Dean, who apparently lived most of her life with my GGGreat-Grandmother Cornelia Gilbert (Coleman) Jackson. The new source says Mattie's middle name was Cornelia. Never heard of that before.
There was also apparently a brother to Mattie named George Henry Dean. I don't think Opal knew about him, or maybe I just don't recall her mentioning him.
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