Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Revolutionary War Heroine
›
Oh, the stock of women we come from! Eli Loveday's wife Callie (Spurgeon)'s great-great-great grandmother was Jane Spurgeon, a Rev...
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Researching institutional archives
›
While completing my new book, Milligan College (part of Arcadia Publishing's Campus History series), I realized what a treasure tro...
1 comment:
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Masons and the Eastern Star
›
Among the many Rosenbalms buried at Zion United Methodist Church near Damascus, Virginia, are several markers with the Masonic emblem. I was...
Rosenbalms of Damascus
›
A few months ago, I stopped at Zion United Methodist Church near Damascus, Virginia, to locate Rosenbalm graves there. To my delight, a coup...
2 comments:
Friday, May 28, 2010
Decoration Day
›
Memorial Day makes me nostaligic for Decoration Day trips, when I visited various cemeteries as a child with my parents. Having allergies, ...
2 comments:
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Dalton and Dicie
›
This photo shows two of my grandfather Jesse James Loveday's siblings, Dicie (right) and Dalton (seated). When I obtained this photo, I...
Friday, November 13, 2009
In-Laws and Outlaws
›
Through this blog I recently connected with yet another distant cousin, whose grandfather Horace Kelly (right) is shown here with my own gra...
›
Home
View web version