Stribling Stuff

These are photos from some pages from a book I have on the Stribling family. I was completely foxed as to who they were and what their relation was to me and my family until just a couple of weeks ago. Now that I know Stribling was the maiden name of my great-great grandmother, it all makes sense.

Of course, HER mother's maiden name (my great-great-great grandmother) was Williams. I like that. It is the English form of my husband's name, Wilke. I wonder - are we more closely related than I want to think?? Yikes! LOL!

I must find this book again - it's around the house somewhere - and see if I can find a photo of my great-great grandmother in it. 

Stribling Arms

In doing some family research - which is quite difficult, I must admit - I found that my great-grandmother's line included the name Stribling. This was a great find to me, because after my father died and I moved his furniture into my apartment, including an antique dry sink, I found in said dry sink a family book of Striblings. I thought, "who are these people?" I didn't know anything about the family connection to the Striblings. 

As it turned out, George Frederick Hays Sr (son of George J. Hays & Ruth-Ann Cornelia W. ROSS) married Martha Alma "Dora" Stribling (daughter of James Harvey Stribling & Nancy Jane WILLIAMS) and had 10 children, 7 of which survived. 

One of those children was Katherine Magnolia Hays, my great-grandmother. She married Owen Holladay, and the children of that marriage were Frederick Owen Holladay (my grandfather), James Douglas Holladay, Martha Holladay (ZEIGER), and Mary Holladay (FORNI). 

Anyway, here's the Stribling arms (enlarged but somewhat pixellated).