In case you haven’t noticed, both William Francis and Annie have parents named William and Eliza! We don’t have the details about how William (1) Patrick met Eliza McCall or how Will (2) and Annie met, but the story about how William Gannaway Brownlow met and wooed Eliza O’Brien is well recorded and is a […]
Who Was Julia Brownlow?
The Letter St. Louis Mo. Jan. 8th 89 No. 2637 Pine Street My dear Mrs. Brownlow, You will no doubt be surprised at receiving this letter from me, the grand daughter of your deceased husband, Col. Parson Brownlow. I have been intending to write to you for a long time. I will not enter into […]
The Patrick Brothers in Mining
The brothers are: James McCall – June 12, 1848 – Feb. 27, 1918 William Francis – May 3, 1853 – July 20, 1905 Warner Knox – May 1858 – May 30, 1914 Edward Thomas – Feb. 2, 1861 – Mar. 14, 1924 Lucien Linton – Sept. 24, 1863 – Nov. 25, 1944 James has been […]
There Could Be A Plot Waiting For YOU!
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 […]
Dinner?
Who would I like to have dinner with if it could be anyone from history? It would be my great-great-grandfather William Gannaway Brownlow. Full of ‘fire and brimstone’ preaching and flinging strings of strong insults at anyone he didn’t like in his newspaper editorials, WGB was considered mild and generous by his family and friends. […]
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 […]
