Volume 15 , Issue 10

Duchess of Weaselskin

As the snow thaws during the day with 40 degree weather here in southwest Colorado, we still accumulate a few inches of heavy, powdery and wet snow on top of the snow that we have received this Winter of 2013.

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One Hundred Years Ago - 11 March 1913

It was about one hundred years ago today, Tuesday, March 11, 1913, that Mrs. Anna Ross Weeks sent a letter to Mayor Gaynor, concerning white slave labor, demanding something be done about the meager pay that a woman received in 1913, and having to supplement their incomes with "white slavery." Other headlines on that page were stating that $8 per day was ample pay for woman.

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NW Okie's Corner

Is there anyone out there that might have had an ancestor that attended the Alva High School, in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma during the 1920's? If so, You might find The PowWow 1920 yearbook interesting.

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History of Rockbridge County, Virginia

In chapter XXXI, of The History of Rockbridge County, Virginia, written by Oren F. Morton, we discover that like all agricultural communities of its class, this county had been a nursery ground for the peopling of newer portions of the Union. For awhile the outflow was wholly toward the points in the western half of the compass dial emigrants from this locality were in the forefront i of settling the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Many of the sons and daughters of Rockbridge poured into the Valley of East Tennessee to make some of its counties look like colonies of Rockbridge. Some went further until they reached the Pacific coast or the vicinity of the Rio Grande.

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WWII German POW's Watercolors (1945)

We heard from a woman a few weeks ago concerning a number of German POW's that helped with the potato harvests at her grandfathers ranch in Center, Colorado. Karen Paul (email: Karen Paul karenp@sebastiancorp.net) inherited some watercolor sketches painted by Herr Weidenmann, German POW in 1945.

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NW Oklahoma Mysteries

In 1910, Oklahoma had been a brand new State for three years. Sometimes I have to remind myself that this Old Opera House Murder took place back in era of prohibition, bootleggers and when women were possessions to be protected and with very little rights -- nor could they sit on a jury.

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1945 - Controlling German Prisoners of War

The War department film bulletin below explains how they were to handle German prisoners of war according to the Geneva Convention of 1929.

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Rockbridge County, Virginia - Family Biographies

This week we are picking a few of our ancestry surnames that we have found in The History of Rockbridge County, Virginia, published, written by Oren F. Morton, in the early 1900's. One of those surnames is "Dunlap."

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