by Sharon Hall | Sep 15, 2014 | Military History Monday
It’s an historical fact that over ten thousand soldiers under the age of eighteen served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Granted, many of them served as drummers and fifers, but their service was nonetheless invaluable. Drummers set the marching pace and...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 13, 2014 | Surname Saturday
The Trowbridge surname was seen as early 1184 in Wiltshire County, England as “Trobigge”, probably derived from the Old English word which translated means someone dwelling near a wooden bridge. Later recorded instances of the name include: Troubrug (1212); William de...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 12, 2014 | Feisty Females
After becoming the first woman to hike the Appalachian Trail solo at the age of sixty-seven in 1955, today’s “Feisty Female” remarked to Sports Illustrated upon completing the trek, “I would never have started this trip if I had known how tough it was, but I...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 10, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Wild Weather Wednesday
On September 8, 1900 a massive storm was raging and headed for the Texas coast. The storm, which may have originated off the western coast of Africa, had already inflicted heavy damage in New Orleans and was heading west. The city of Galveston, located on thirty...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 9, 2014 | Tombstone Tuesday
I gotta say this was a difficult article to research – so darn many General Washington Gentry’s or George Washington Gentry’s or General George Washington Gentry’s in Johnson County, Tennessee it seemed. I think (I hope) I have figured it out...
