by Sharon Hall | Nov 11, 2013 | Military History Monday
Early Mormon History During the early 19th century, a revival movement called The Second Great Awakening was sweeping the nation. One particular area in western New York became known as the “Burned Over District”. The area had been so heavily evangelized and...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 8, 2013 | Feudin' & Fightin' Friday
Horrells and Higgins – Early Lampasas County Settlers John Holcomb Higgins and his wife Hester migrated to Lampasas County, Texas from Georgia with their young family. Their son, John Pinkney Calhoun Higgins was their first male child, born on March 28, 1851. ...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 6, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
I had seen this “ghost town” mentioned in my recent research for ghost town stories, so I will loosely place it under that category because it’s pretty interesting. Over the years, some people have thought this might be the same group of women who formed...
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...
