My grandfather had been quiet about who his father was for many, many years, finally revealing his name to me only a few years ago. I had deduced the family due to his name and birth location, but as far as which Keirs was the father, that I was not able to determine. As it turns out he was an “illegitimate birth” and I have not been able to discover a birth record, so I turned to the next best source, newspapers.
I found an article in the 1 Dec 1925 Decatur Herald that says: Continue reading “North vs. South in Records Request: Southern Hospitality Wins”