Re: Caroline Potter was born about 1849
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Re: Caroline Potter was born about 1849
Linda Potter Whitt 10/22/02
Hi Linda,
I think I must have not been clear enough about the Caroline Potter I'm trying to find out about. I'm talking about the one that my Grandfather John "Joel" Martin Potter married? after he and his first wife (my Grandmother) Eliza Frances Reynolds Potter divorced.
Mart Potter (grandpa) married (don't know if married cause no marriage license yet has been found) a woman and had several children after he and Eliza Frances Reynolds Potter divorced. Grandpa Mart went to my Grandma Eliza and said he had to marry her for reasons I don't want to put on here. They got a divorce and grandpa had Essie, Gladys, John, and some others and somehow my grandpa's land got into the hands of either several of them or one of them.
Grandpa never got his land back in his name and when he died, we never got any of our inheritance. We were dirt dog poor and my dad was sick and dying, and it sure was hard times for all of us kids. Poverty is a dreadful thing to go through, but the beautiful land of Kentucky was the prettiest place I've ever been and I loved living in those mountains.
Grandpa was born in 1875 and his father and mother were Abraham and Sarah Sallie Wright Potter. Sarah Sallie was Devil John Wright's sister, so Devil John was Great Grand Uncle or whatever you call it.
I have a little web site I'm making on my own and it's at http://www.geocities.com/yea2222http://www.geocities.com/yea2222 if you want to look at it and there are a lot of pictures and I'm going to get as many as I can from my older brothers. I really like to put the old ones on there because those are the ones I like the best.