Volume 14 , Issue 13

Duchess of Weaselskin

Some have said the death of a young, black teenager in Florida was a "senseless tragedy." Would it be more appropriate to say that this was a "senseless travesty of justice" (false, absurd, or distorted representation of something) that caused a "senseless tragedy!"

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100 Years Ago Today - March 26, 1912

One hundred years ago today, according to The Washington Times, dated 26 March 1912, Washington, DC, "Eighty-Three Men Entombed In Mine In West Virginia." As the story reads there was explosion of gas in Jed Shaft Shuts Off Escape.

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NW Okie's Corner

We just received an inquiry concerning our Vol. 9, Iss. 13, dated 2007-03-31, concerning an article, "St. Louis Browns - 1914," that Jim Bradley shared with us and said he had a 38 inch by 12 inch picture of the Browns.

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Highland County Virginia - Under Pendleton & Bath

This week our journey of Highland county, Virginia takes us back to a time when there was a subdividing of Augusta county with the formation of Pendleton and Bath, the Greenbrier District. We shall learn a bit about the Highland men as local officers and the growth of the Highland area and what some call the Turnpike.

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75 Years Ago - Missing Amelia Earhart & Lockheed Plane

Earlier last week we heard in the news that there was a means using sonar to found the missing Lockheed airplane of a woman pilot, Amelia Earhart, when she went missing without a trace over the South Pacific 75 years ago.

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Information On Judge Wm McLaughlin's Family

Gerald McLaughlin shares the following pdf files and images with us this week. Gerald says, "I picked up the first document at Leyburn Library (W&LU). He authored this book: . He was instrumental in renaming WL&U (Washington & Lee University) after Robert E. Lee. It was first Augusta Academy, then Liberty Hall, then Washington Academy, then Washington College and finally Washington and Lee University. I just donated a book authored by Geo. Washington and William Jackson to W&LU. Considering it was endowed by the first President and then renamed after the man that married his step granddaughter, I could think of no better place for the book."

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Obituary of Judge Wm. McLaughlin (1898 Virginia)

The top of stone marker (on the left) in Old Lebanon cemetery that we had in last week's OkieLegacy Ezine reads "McLaughlin." The image on the right is the front of that same stone marker.

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Chapman's, Jackson's & Lurty's Virginia Batteries C.S.A.

Chapman's, Jackson's and Lurty's Virginia Batteries CSA, Maj [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Women Suffrage Movement

As the last week of March 2012 is upon us, we continue our history of women and their fight for suffrage and the right to vote! In the Evening Public Ledger, out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dated May 1, 1915, in a Night Extra, we find these pictures of suffrage movement who took part in a parade and demonstration. [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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