Ancestors from Scotland

 I was able to help my grandson Gideon do an ancestors project for school in PA this week. Using our ancestry.com  family tree, we were able to see that on my mother's side of the  family , her 6th great grandfather Hector McIntosh was born in 1750 in Scotland.  He married Mary McCoy (who was born in America)  in 1782 in North Carolina. We can only guess how old he was when he immigrated to America.  They both died in North Carolina.  Gideon also made this drawing of what Hector may have looked like.  We know the Scottish brought over the bagpiping tradition and wore tartan (kilts).  

Reunion of Briggs Family in the 1960s

My mom came across this old newspaper article and photo  from the 1960s.

Her grandmother is front and center,  Harriett Loretta Briggs Allen, 

and in this photo are her sisters and brothers at a Briggs family reunion.  

Harriet, my great-grandmother, was born in 1881 

and died in 1967. 

She was the daughter of Edward West Briggs and Laura J Proffitt Briggs 

She married Joby Allen and together they had 11 children - 

 one was my grandmother -

Ethel Mae Allen who would marry John Sherman Rice.