Volume 14 , Issue 34

Duchess of Weaselskin

Well! With everyone around here laying around in the hammock in between rain showers, even my pug buddy (Sadie), I guess I am left to write my "Duchess of Weaselskin" column [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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100 Years Ago Today - 20 August 1912

It was Tuesday, August 20, 1912, that we read in The World, out of New York, about the "Young Mrs. Astor Not To Contest Husband's Will." Col. John Jacob Astor died earlier in 1912 in the sinking of the Titanic.

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NW Okie's Corner

How's the drought & dryness in the heartland and prairies? Back in 1912, besides the early thirties, they were also battling the drought.

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Pendleton County, (West) Virginia - Formation & Early Middle Period (1787-1818)

As we learn more about our ancestors of Pendleton county, (West) Virginia, we have found many names listed below showing up in our paternal genealogy of the Warwick/Gwin/Eckard ancestors. Especial how the Poage/Poague family married into the Warwick family. I have tried to include in parenthesis those in my ancestry tree.

Abraham Eckard's relationship to this NW Okie is as a paternal grandfather of wife of great grand aunt (Reuhama Gwin). Such as, Abraham Eckard (1791 - ), relationship to me: paternal grandfather of wife of great grand aunt; Absalom Eckard (1825 - 1898), Son of Abraham; Job E Eckard (1847 - 1911), Son of Absalom; Reuhama "Hami" GWIN (1857 - 1921), Wife of Job E.; Samuel GWIN (1825 - 1871), Father of Reuhama "Hami"; Signora Belle Gwin (1860 - 1934), Daughter of Samuel; Constance Estella WARWICK (1882 - 1968), Daughter of Signora Belle; Gene M MCGILL (1914 - 1986), Son of Constance Estella Warwick McGill; and that leads to me, Linda Kay MCGILL Wagner, daughter of Gene McGill.

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The Drought of 1913

It was September 18, 1913, in The Oklahoma Miner, located in Krebs, Pittsburg county (southeastern corner of the state), Oklahoma, that we find on page three the headlines "The Drought of 1913 Is One More Argument For Common Sense Farming."

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The Drought of 1913

It was September 18, 1913, in The Oklahoma Miner, located in Krebs, Pittsburg county (southeastern corner of the state), Oklahoma, that we find on page three the headlines "The Drought of 1913 Is One More Argument For Common Sense Farming."

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1912 - Regulars Want Third Party Candidates Listed As Independents

It was 20 August 1912, in the Bisbee Daily Review, of Bisbee, Arizona, that we find where the regulars wanted the third party candidates listed as "Independents" as the Bull Moose objects. The headlines on the front page read, "Progressives Fight For Name On Ill. Ticket."

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