by Sharon Hall | Aug 29, 2014 | Feisty Females
Her campaign slogan in 1921, just one year after women were granted the right to vote, was “I will clean up Duluth and rid it of demon rum.” She had been compelled into the race for mayor of Duluth, Georgia that year, having been a strong advocate for women’s...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 26, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Cloverdale is believed to have been established sometime in the 1880’s. On May 2, 1882 The Critic (Washington, D.C.) had a story about an Indian fight at Cloverdale between Apaches and the Sixth Cavalry, led by Captain T.C. Tupper. One soldier was killed in...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 26, 2014 | Tombstone Tuesday
I just never know where a story idea will pop up. This one came from some bantering back and forth on Facebook between my brother and one of our cousins about the “Bootheel” area of New Mexico. Today’s article features one family who started out in Texas, wandered...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 23, 2014 | Surname Saturday
Who knew that a visit to a prairie cemetery in West Texas could generate so many articles (and I’m not done yet!)? Today’s Surname Saturday article focuses on another name found in the historic Estacado Cemetery. Other articles related to this cemetery can be found...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 22, 2014 | Feudin' & Fightin' Friday
The Arkansas feud known as the Tutt-Everett War or the King-Tutt-Everett War or the Marion County War wasn’t over love, money, water or land – it was pure politics and it was bloody. The Marion County War might be the most appropriate name since it eventually seemed...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 20, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Today’s ghost town was both the name of a Wasatch Mountain pass in Utah and the town which was founded at the top of the pass early in the twentieth century. In 1776 the area was discovered by Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Franciscan...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 19, 2014 | Tombstone Tuesday
Dorothy Trimmer Bryant was born to parents Joseph Aaron and Florence Pauline (Schlosser) Trimmer on March 13, 1914 in Glen Rock, York County, Pennsylvania. Her father’s occupation for several years was telephone operator and in 1930 the family was residing in...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 18, 2014 | Mothers of Invention
As the saying goes, “necessity is the mother of invention.” In the late 1940’s single mother Bette Nesmith was an executive secretary at Texas Bank and Trust in Dallas. To cover up her typing mistakes she mixed a batch of tempera water-based paint to match the...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 16, 2014 | Surname Saturday
I ran across this surname while walking through a prairie cemetery in Lubbock County, Texas: My curiosity was piqued to find out its origins. As always there will be more than one opinion as to a surname’s origin – here are three theories: One source believes that the...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 15, 2014 | Feisty Females
In December of 1848 a man and woman, both born into slavery, devised a scheme – a ruse – which would lead them to freedom. Their reason for embarking on such a daring adventure was later eloquently stated in the opening lines of their memoir, Running A Thousand...
