For the testimony of employers or near neighbors of soldier (other than relatives,) who have known him before his enlistment, or since his discharge and return from the army. State of Virginia, County of Mecklenburg, In the matter of the application for pension of Ira Sayles on this 8 day of May, A.D., one thousand eight … Continue reading Transcript Tuesday: Neighbor’s Affidavit in the Pension Application of Ira Sayles, 1893
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Taylor Is The New Greene
In the mid to late 1800s entire branches of original Greene County, Pennsylvania families headed west. Some may have stopped in Ohio or Missouri before finally heading west again--to the fertile lands of Iowa. Stephensons, Minors, Hartleys, and Keenans swept into the plains of Taylor County, along the south-central border with Missouri. And many of … Continue reading Taylor Is The New Greene
UPDATED Strangers Cross My Path Again: The Minor Family Album
I am becoming a bit wary of this great-great-grandmother of mine, Mary Jane Minor. She does not appear to have had much of a design plan for this photograph album, for turning to pages six and seven, I am greeted by strangers once again. Strangers from Iowa. The man sports a full beard and moustache, and wears his … Continue reading UPDATED Strangers Cross My Path Again: The Minor Family Album
On The Trail of S. A. Stevens : The Minor Family Album
The second, third, and fourth pages of the Minor Family Album were all taken by Oliver Eugene Aultman, in his West Main Street studio, in Trinidad, Colorado. I made a thorough study of the photographs' internal clues and narrowed down the timeframe for the shoot as being between 1889-1893. With no annotations to aid my … Continue reading On The Trail of S. A. Stevens : The Minor Family Album
A Well Dressed Woman: (almost) wordless wednesday
One hundred and twenty-four years ago Oliver E. Aultman welcomed a well dressed woman and her family to his newly opened third floor gallery in the West Building, the "finest (photography studio) of its size west of Chicago" according to the local papers. Trinidad, Colorado was a booming town in 1890, supporting the surrounding mining … Continue reading A Well Dressed Woman: (almost) wordless wednesday
Shoots, Roots, and Leaves 