by Sharon Hall | Jul 4, 2014 | Feisty Females
One biographer describes today’s “Feisty Female” as “a woman entirely uneducated, and ignorant of all the conventional civilities of life, but a zealous lover of liberty.” (The Women of the American Revolution, Volume 2 by Elizabeth Fries Ellet). She was born Nancy...
by Sharon Hall | Jul 1, 2014 | Tombstone Tuesday
Today’s Tombstone Tuesday subject was one of the last six Revolutionary War veterans featured in Reverend Elias Hillard’s book, The Last Men of the Revolution, published in 1864. At the time of the veterans’ interviews they were all over the age of one hundred. ...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 28, 2014 | Surname Saturday
Chisolm The Chisholm surname is Scottish and first recorded in thirteenth-century Roxburghshire, Roxburgh, the county that borders the English counties of Cumberland and Northumberland: John de Chesehelme (1254) John de Chesolm (1296) It is a border name arising from...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 27, 2014 | Feisty Females
Today’s “Feisty Female” more than likely lived a fairly ordinary life. However, as time went on the stories of her exploits as the purported first woman to travel the Chisholm Trail, would make her an almost “larger than life” figure as a legendary Texas pioneer...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 25, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Wild West Wednesday
Samuel Sixkiller was born circa 1842 in the Going Snake District (now Adair County, Oklahoma) of Indian Territory to parents Redbird and Permelia (Whaley) Sixkiller. Samuel was of mixed blood Cherokee heritage, his father being the son a half-breed Cherokee mother...
