Ten men tied to DeKalb County, Tennessee, left to fight for the Union, most of them in the United States Colored Troops. All ten had been born enslaved. What became of them, and of the wives, children, and communities they left behind, survives today in an unlikely place: the federal pension files the government kept on each of them, sometimes for sixty years after the war ended. Continue reading My first Book is published!
How a whiskey-soaked afternoon in 1898 put a father and his two sons on trial for murder — twice — … Continue reading “Hell Popped”: A Sunday Killing at Mine Lick and the Long Road to the Tennessee Supreme Court
Researching our family histories can take many resources, and not all researchers have the resources to order essential records. So … Continue reading Matlock and Zilpha Roberts Genealogy Military Pension File Grant Program.
When visiting the Carthage library, I ran across detailed transcriptions of the diaries of two Wauford brothers that Daphene Willoughby completed; it turns out she’s related to me at least by marriage. The first are the diaries of Reverend Charles Wauford from 1909 to 1924. Continue reading DeKalb Tales – The Waufords
One shot entered the lower portion of Harve’s heart; another grazed Harve’s abdomen between the naval and pelvis bone. The gunshot through the heart would cause the instantaneous death of Harve. Continue reading William Henry Bess – the Harve Robinson murder
I heard the calling of lost photo’s that wanted to go home, whispering down the dirt road, saying find me.. find me…
Take a step back with me to 1905 as we learn about who they were, and why the family still has an area named after them in Lewis County, Wsshington. Continue reading The photo album of Flora Waunch
Last Thursday, while Howard Wheeler, a boy about 14 years old, who lives south of town was handling a 38 Winchester rifle it was accidentally discharged, the ball passing through the left ear and grazing the scalp. – Hamilton Grit(Hamilton Kansas) 23 Jun 1905 page 8 Continue reading On finding home…
…there are some stylistic differences in the text setting and some other indications that tell me that the Old Testament and Apocrypha were one book that was bound together with a separately-published New Testament into a single volume. In other words, this Bible was “assembled” rather than published in its current form. The New Testament isn’t illustrated, whereas the Old Testament is. Likewise, I question why they would place a publication year on the New Testament section unless it had originally been published separately Continue reading The Jacob Reger Family Bible
Racism is still rampant, and religious persecution is at the same level as it has been throughout the decades. Given their druthers and asked confidentially with no consequences, many North Americans would likely be comfortable with a mass genocide based on the Social Media “reactions” I’ve seen. Continue reading On researching dead people – humanity has not changed in 2500 years…
