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Stables Family Newsletter – Apr 2011

Sign up for the Reunion! The family reunion is happening on Saturday, July 9, 2011, at the Garden Hall in Maymont Park, Richmond. You can now register and pay for…

Florence Elsie Stables (1885-1918)

Florence Elsie Kersey was born in Hanover County, Virginia USA on 28 Feb 1885 to Phillip W. Kersey (b. Mar 1849) and Emma C. Collins (b. Jan 1863). She was…

Norman A. Lees, Urges Legislators to Act

The New York Times, February 22, 1911: ”MAY INVESTIGATE MATTEAWAN. Norman A. Lees, Former Inmate, Urges Legislators to Act. ALBANY, Feb 21 – A joint resolution providing for an investigation…

Stables Family Newsletter

The following is an excerpt from the November edition of the Stables Family Newsletter. Reunion planning under way It may seem awfully early to be working on a Stables Family reunion…

Carson Carl Eber

Carl Eber Carson was born in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, on 17 Jun 1892 but his WW1 draft card has June 4, 1892 as his date of birth. He resided…

Rev. Linton Dunn Stables

Rev. Linton Dunn Stables was born in Lewiston, Virginia, U.S.A., on 5 Feb 1883. He was the second child (but first son) to Alfred Stables and Katherine Bunch Gray. He…

The Passing of Nancy Grey Stables

On the morning of Wednesday, August 25th 2010 Nancy Grey Stables passed peacefully in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Born Nancy Grey Lazenby in Bluefield, West Virginia on the 16th April 1924,…

Lt Linton D. Stables Wounded in Korea

Linton Dunn STABLES Jr was born in Oak Hall, Virginia, USA, on 23 Apr 1923, the son of Rev. Linton Dunn Stables and Katherine Bunch Gray. In 1930 at the…

Matteawan State Hospital

During the early US colonial period, the mentally ill did not receive the same care and compassion they most receive today. There were no specific facilities and they were often…