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 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
Finding Nancy Jane Wickham Archer
This is my first post in almost 10 months. I haven’t been writing at all or really working on my own genealogy this past year; my last post was about my father’s death and I’d been struggling for some time