by Sharon Hall | Jun 7, 2014 | Surname Saturday
Today’s surname is easy to identify as to its origins. After the Norman Conquest in 1066 the name appeared as a locational name. The family lived in Leicestershire in a town called “Frisby” (no longer in existence). There is a village in Leicestershire today called...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 6, 2014 | Feisty Females
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was born on January 26, 1892 to parents George and Susan Coleman, she being the tenth of their thirteen children. George Coleman was part African American and part Cherokee, a sharecropper in Atlanta, Texas which had been settled by former...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 4, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Wild West Wednesday
This gun battle at Blazer’s Mill, located on the Rio Tularosa, is considered part of the Lincoln County War of 1878. The most famous participant of that war was, of course, William H. Bonney, a.k.a. “Billy the Kid.” Billy and his fellow posse members...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 2, 2014 | Mothers of Invention
The subjects of today’s article were not only “mothers of invention” but also made a bit of naval history as well, contributing to the Union’s cause during the Civil War. Sarah Mather Unfortunately, for history’s sake, little is known about inventor Sarah Mather. One...
by Sharon Hall | May 31, 2014 | Surname Saturday
The Nutting surname is Anglo-Saxon and derives from the Middle Ages English name of “Cnute” which became popular after a Dane by the name of “Cnut” became King of England in 1016. According to the Patronymica Britannica: Ferguson derives this name and Nutt from...
