Finding the facts behind the legends!
He was born into a family steeped in Southern tradition, but he left it all behind. Not all rebels were Confederate soldiers, you see. On that fateful Independence Day of 1887, William Baugh may have been the biggest rebel of all.
Melcena never should have been a brick wall. After all, my grandmother told plenty of stories about her. Wasn’t Melcena the grandma in those stories? In a word...no.
How did my Chicago-born great-great-grandmother meet my Virginia-born great-great-grandfather? I can thank my bachelor uncle for that!
Most of us have "that branch" in our family tree. You know the one...it's where you find the ancestors who turned stretching the truth into an art form. You want to look away, but you just...can't.
Baugh, Bass, and Beyond 