by Sharon Hall | Nov 5, 2013 | Tombstone Tuesday
At the suggestion of my cousin, Terrie Henderson, I decided to check out some cemeteries in Catron County, New Mexico. Several of the sites I perused had extensive details of both the lives and deaths on the individual Find-A-Grave web page. For instance, the Boot...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 4, 2013 | Military History Monday
In this border war which occurred in the first decade of the 1800s, ambiguities in border delineation were again the center of controversy. The strip of land, approximately twelve miles wide, was called the “Orphan Strip”. That strip of land bordered the three...
