A few years ago, my Great Aunt sent me hundreds of copies of her own family history books, and it's taken me all this time to read through everything (and even then, I'm sure there are records I haven't looked at close enough and details I've probably missed). About two hundred pages in, there's a [...]
This week's 52 Ancestors prompt is "Twelve," and instead of highlighting a relative with twelve children or an ancestor with twelve siblings, I decided to trace my family tree back twelve generations to one of my 10th great-grandparents. If you follow my paternal line of Cook ancestors--winding from my great-grandmother Fern through a handful of [...]
Jane Austen's been in the spotlight more than usual lately; last month, the Daily Mail published a series of photographs of nineteenth-century aristocrats in their sprawling manors and estates. Unexpectedly, the photo album includes a number of Jane Austen's relatives--Captain Edward Bradford, who lost his arm in a tiger attack, and Fanny Knight, who was [...]
The Wright Brothers Milton Wright and Susan Catharine Koerner met at Hartsville College in Hartsville, Indiana in 1853, one of the first coeducational institutions in the United States. They shared a love of learning for the sake of learning, but when Milton asked Susan to accompany him on an assignment by the Church of the [...]
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF MRS. WAITSTILL VOSE WIDOW OF CAP'T THOMAS VOSE DIED JAN'R THE 8TH 1 7 2 7 AGED 84 YEARS
