We have traced them back from Texas to Arkansas, and then back to Tennessee but as yet no further. However, we believe they link to the colonial Virginia Ragsdale family, descendants of a baby who survived Chief Opecanough's massacre at Henricus Town in 1644. We have traced this family back from Texas to Mississippi, to Tennessee to South Carolina. My aunt Ann, however, has done a great job on her Roberson page. I took a modern photo of myself, turned it to sepia, gave myself a ca.
Original picture ca.
Then, I took an oval vignette of this revised picture and pasted it into a scan of an 1860's era tintype frame. And messed with it a little.