by Sharon Hall | Nov 18, 2013 | Military History Monday
President James K. Polk was on a mission to expand the country westward. The term “divine destiny” had been used by journalist John O’Sullivan in 1839, later evolving into what came to be known as “Manifest Destiny”. Part of Polk’s plans for westward expansion...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 16, 2013 | Home Remedies and Quack Cures
I’ve recently been performing a lot of historical and ancestral research by combing through digitized newspapers. Inevitably, in the newspapers of the mid-1800’s until the early 1930’s, I am reading advertisements extolling the benefits of so-called...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 15, 2013 | Feudin' & Fightin' Friday
This little war fought in Fort Bend County, Texas had nothing to do with birds, but could very well be described as a race war. Background In the early 1820s, the area which comprised Fort Bend County was settled as a so-called “plantation district”. By 1861 when it...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 13, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Not only is Moonville, Ohio a ghost town in the classic sense of the term (a once thriving town completely abandoned), stories abound about the haunting of various locales in and around the town. No one seems to know where the town name originated, although some have...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 12, 2013 | Tombstone Tuesday
These two gravestones caught my eye. I suspected they were husband and wife, being the only Gamblins in this cemetery. Both Syl (Sylvester) and Emma also lived into their 90s so I’m thinking they must have led full and interesting lives. Emma was born on May 12,...
