Back with week 3 of Grandma Rose’s journal! Her phrase on January 17th is one I’ve never, ever heard before and I chuckled because I could hear it in her voice. Her punctuation, capitalization, and run-on sentences are just atrocious
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 2
Little late posting this week… the power supply is out on my PC and I’m waiting for the part so this post comes via my phone which is a bit different to navigate to post anything. I’m having difficulty formatting
The 1977 Weekly Diary of Rose Jones Stewart Hochmuth
A few months ago, my cousin Kim gifted me with the 1977 weekly journal my great-grandma Rose Jones Stewart Hochmuth kept. She was going to give me the one for the year I was born which was 1974 but it
The Fiery Demise of Rosa Ellen Eccard Brown & Her Children
I love a good family mystery and when I received a hint for my second great-aunt Rosa Ellen Eccard Brown in Ancestry the other day about dying from shock received from burns, I knew I had a real whopper on
John Wickham & Bemus Heights
I’m very fortunate to live within 15 minutes of where my 7th GGF and Revolutionary War patriot, John Wickham, was stationed for a time at Fort Montgomery, New York. I’ve written before about visiting there and the surreal experience of