My mother died of tubercular menengitis when I was only two months old and I never got to know her. As a child my primary contact with the Graham family was with my Grandfather Charles Edward Graham. Grandpa Charlie was a presbytarian preacher for some time in Lufkin, Texas. As an adult, my only contact with the Graham side of my family was with my Uncle Roy Graham, and he provided me with most of the information I have regarding the Grahams descended from Charles Edward Graham and his wife Annie Sarah Burch.. Charles Edward Graham's parents were Charles Pickett Graham, Jr. and Lydia "Liddy" Denton.
For the information on the ancestry of Charles Pickett Graham, Jr., I have to thank my cousin Graham Louer. Graham has provided me with a tremendous amount of information which he has collected in over a decade of research. This information traces our joint Graham lineage several generations farther back to Dempsey Graham, born ca 1774 in South Carolina, and Dempsey's wife Elizabeth Arledge. Through Graham I learned of my family connections to the following lineages:
Arledge/Aldrich/Aldridge, King, Hollis, Pickett, Knighton