My husband and I like to walk through cemeteries, looking at the various designs of the stones, and trying to find common dates indicating a mine disaster or disease outbreak. Many times you can see entire families buried together over many years. Sometime we have seen a double monument for spouses where only one person […]
Women’s Education in the 1800s
Although religious education was often part of the curriculum at female seminaries in the nineteenth century, their main purpose was to educate adolescent girls. Girls usually attended between the ages of 12 and 18. Many seminaries developed into women’s colleges in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the early 1800s the schools started using […]
James & William
This family history contains MANY Jameses and Williams. The Patrick family especially, had a fondness for the two names. James Patrick from Ireland had two living sons, James and William. Both James and William had sons named James and William. My great-grandfather (a William) broke with tradition and named both his sons, William!!! My grandfather […]
