This is a story about John George Jackson that Dorothy Davis relates in her book John George Jackson. John George was the son of Colonel George Jackson. John George later replaced his father in the U.S. House of Representatives. I thought Dorothy’s story appropriate today as we approach the 2020 Presidential Election. How they […]
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“A covered wagon getting stuck in the mud” painting by Alexandre Josquin. A 1805 Harrison County, (West) Virginia incident published in The Weston Democrat, Weston, WV, 12 April 1869, page 3. John George Jackson was the son of Col. George Jackson. “Historical Reminiscence.–In the year 1805, the first covered wagon that was […]
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The comments from Stonewall Jackson’s great-great grandson on the removal of Stonewall’s statue in Richmond, VA that appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch July 2, 2020. “Stonewall Jackson’s great-great-grandson: ‘I’m very much cheering on from afar’” by K. Burnell Evans of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 2, 2020.
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On July 1, 2020, a crew dispatched by the Mayor of Richmond, Virginia removed the statue of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson where it had stood on Monument Avenue for a century. Here is an article with lots of picture from the newspaper Richmond Times-Dispatch. “WATCH: After more than 100 years on Monument Ave., the Stonewall […]
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June 3, 2020 Tales of Our Childhood from Jane Hilder. I was born in Bay Shore, New York, in March 1948. My parents were Peter Hilder and Aimee Carlile. My family lived in the village of Brightwaters, which was about halfway out on the south shore of Long Island. We lived in an older […]
Continue reading → May 26, 2020 A story from Don Jackson’s youth. Family Stories Are Not Always True My grandmother (Grannie), Isla Ward Buster, was born in 1900, one of eleven children, on a farm in central Texas. The last thirteen years of her life, she lived with me and my family. Although she told […]
Continue reading → May 22, 2020 A story from her youth by Diana Pulver. Playing Hide and Go Seek Until I was 10 years old, I lived in a five-room apartment attached to a Sundries Store. A Sundries Store was an early version of Walgreens or CVS without the pharmacy and with a soda fountain/luncheonette. It […]
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May 20, 2020 Here a story of his youth from Don Jackson. I Wish I Had Asked More Questions! I, Donald L. Jackson, was born in December 1940 in Lubbock, Texas to young parents who were struggling to find their place in the world and looking for opportunities to build a future. […]
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May 19, 2020 Here is a story from my Mom’s youth that I compiled before she died in 2002. Stories of our Youth from Mary Ellen Hall Hyde Rowland, Mary, Peg, Gravatt, and John Hall I Lost My Dress! By Mary Ellen Hall Hyde (1920-2002) as told to her son Dan One […]
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May 16, 2020 Stories of our Youth from Gayle Robey. My Crocheted Dress When I was very young, my step-grandmother, Catherine Jackson, wife of my maternal grandfather, Leslie Jackson, crocheted a beautiful pink dress for me. It was worn by me before I was 2 years old and a portrait was taken in black […]
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