by Sharon Hall | Nov 24, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
Thomas Jefferson Pilgrim was born on December 4, 1804 in East Haddam, Connecticut, the first child of eleven born to Thomas and Dorcas (Ransom) Pilgrim. His family were devout Baptists and T.J. Pilgrim would spend a lifetime devoted to religious education. After...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 16, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
William D. Cobbledick was born in Whitley, Canada in 1849 and moved to Marshall, Michigan with his parents at the age of six months. While early records for William and his family are scarce, I believe his parents were John and Mary (Derbuiny?) Cobbledick. Other...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 30, 2015 | Far-Out Friday
October is the spookiest month of the year, so a story about gravesite dowsing seemed in order for Halloween Eve-Eve, I guess you could call it. The article title pretty much encompasses the range of opinion regarding the subject, although I have to say a brief...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 16, 2015 | Feisty Females
This headline introduced some fearless and celebrated women to the readers of the Milwaukee Journal in 1899: “What Man Has Done Women Can Do”. The author had written a recent article “about dependence being an old fashioned virtue and that the clinging ivy type of...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 12, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
Joseph Faubion was born in Clay County, Missouri on September 7, 1842 to parents Moses and Nancy (Hightower) Faubion. Moses was first married to Patsy Holcomb, and after she died he married Nancy Hightower in 1841. According to the 1850 census Nancy was nineteen...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 8, 2015 | Time Capsule Thursday
Newspapers around the country were covering this riveting story on October 8, 1926. However, the original crime for which mob justice was rendered on that day hadn’t received much more than regional coverage the year before when three members of the Lowman family...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 28, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
John Wesley Fly was born in Barry County, Missouri on March 7, 1844 to parents Asher Pipkin and Marillay (Cantrell) Fly. Asher and Marillay were born in Tennessee and John was one of fourteen children born to their marriage. His parents were devout Christians, Asher...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 24, 2015 | Feisty Females
I ran across the name of Emma Daugherty Banister awhile back, along with claims she became the first female sheriff in the United States in August of 1918 after her husband John Banister, elected sheriff of Coleman County, Texas in 1914, died in office. I don’t...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 22, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
Several weeks ago I came across an entry at Find-A-Grave which intrigued me – Pocahontas McVeigh Fritter who is buried in Franklin County, Ohio. Both her first name and married name are both a bit unusual – there must be a story there. Then I found her husband...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 14, 2015 | Tombstone Tuesday
Flavius Terry Laffoon was born on July 28, 1833 in Lawrence County, Tennessee to parents Matthew and Elizabeth Murrell Laffoon. In 1840 Matthew and his family were enumerated in Giles County, Tennessee. Family historians estimate the family migrated to Arkansas...
