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Etty, Floyd, Wilson, Price and Shanabarger Family Trees

Updated April 4, 2009
Leah Greeley

869 N. 5th Street

Grover Beach, CA 93433-1321

 We are chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors and make them live again and to tell the family story. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts. It is breathing life into the memory of all our family who have gone before, to know who it is that gave us our values in life.

How many graves have I stood before and cried? How many times have I told my ancestors – you have a wonderful family, you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say.

It is more than just documenting facts. Therein lies a mold from which each person in our family was cast. It’s about pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish, and how they contributed to what we are today. It’s about respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their families. It’s about a deep pride in those that fought to make our nation. It’s about a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us, their future, that we might be born who we are, that we might remember them. So we, with love and caring, scribe each fact of their existence.

Therefore, as a called upon scribe, I tell the story of my family. It’s up to the one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones.

Most of the information on these pages is correct. However, if you find an error, please contact me and let me know. My research never ends.

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Family Photos

  • William Morgan & Julia Carter Floyd (76 KB)
    William Morgan Floyd and Julia Carter Floyd of Crenshaw Co, ALA
  • Goodwin Davis & Cynthia Floyd III (18 KB)
    Goodwin Davis Floyd III & Cynthia Dora Strickland Floyd ca late 1800s - early 1900s
  • LeRoy John Wilson, WW II Veteran (14 KB)
    LeRoy Wilson was a paratrooper during WW II who fought in the Philippine Islands up to the end of the war.
  • Shanabarger Women (53 KB)
    Julia Ann Siglo Shanabarger Funk, widow of Henry Shanabarger and Henry Funk, with daughters, Mary Shanabarger Koogle & Margaret Shanabarger Wilson
  • Charles Etty, Ethel Wilson & Johnny Dull - Orlando (30 KB)
    This photo was taken in front of the house on Anderson Street in Orlando, Florida. That's Charles Etty on the left before he went off to Iwo Jima to give his life for his country. My mother, Ethel, is in the middle and Johnny Dull, a family friend, is on the right.
  • John Henry & Luther Samuel Wilson (29 KB)
    John & Luther Wilson, sons of Samuel Wilson and Margaret Shanabarger of Richland County, Ohio
  • Jane Annie Yates Etty & Pearl - Pine Castle, FL (39 KB)
    It is rumored throughout the Yates descendants (my grandmother told me) that Jane Annie's grandmother, Gemima Smith Cothern, was one half Cherokee Indian. This belief is even mentioned in the book, Four Families Through Georgia, A Southern History of the Adcock, Blackwell, O'Kelly, Yates and Related Families by Harold Ernest O'Kelly.
  • The Etty Kids - Pine Castle, FL (98 KB)
    Left to right: Bill Etty, Mabel Etty Wilson, Claude Etty, Maude Etty Robinson, John Etty, Pearl Etty Hancock, all of Pine Castle, Fla.
  • The Price Family ca 1934 (121 KB)
    The Price family from left to right: Back row: Ocie John, Cora, baby Johnny, Grace & Ethel Front row: Jean, Ruby, Bill & Evelyn
  • John Floyd family of Crenshaw Co., AL circa 1906 (80 KB)
    The John Floyd family in front of their house in Luverne, Crenshaw Co., AL. L-R back: Beulah & Julia, Martha aka Rena, John aka Willie. Front: Jack, Hart, Sabra, Dixie, Young, Mollie, Pruett, Frank, Leon. Circa 1906
  • Thomas Etty with Gene Hancock, Pine Castle, Fla (140 KB)
    Thomas Etty with his grandson, Gene Hancock, on his shoulders. Pine Castle, FL. Circa 1927
 

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  • Moving In A Covered Wagon - The Story Of A Family (1 KB)
    This is the story of John William Floyd’s family of Luverne, Alabama. The following information is taken from Beulah Floyd Folmar's memoirs, which she put on paper around 1954, at the age of 71. In about the year 1896, John William Floyd decided to move his family to Texas from their home near Luverne, the county seat of Crenshaw County, Alabama. And this is where Beulah’s story begins.
 

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