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Clinton R. Miller Part 3 – A Cure for the Fever
At first I thought that to tell the story of my great-great grandfather would be to tell a story of a man who just couldn’t be a father, someone who was in and out of my great grandmother’s life, someone our family often described as a “ne’er do well.” While there is always some truth…
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Protected: Tipperary to White City: Shanahan Siblings in Chicago
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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A Voyage Full of Misery: The German New Era
Frederick Simon Fiedler (1835-1901) Frederick Simon FIEDLER was born on the 8 June 1835, in the small town of Eckartsberga, in the province of Saxony, in what is modern-day central Germany. During Frederick ’s childhood this was part of the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the youngest son of Johann Christian and Emilie FIEDLER. In…
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Clinton R. Miller Part 2 – Hunting Down the Hustler
At first I thought that to tell the story of my great-great grandfather would be to tell a story of a man who just couldn’t be a father, someone who was in and out of my great grandmother’s life, someone our family often described as a “ne’er do well.” While there is always some truth…
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Tyler/Paul Mothers: The Family Strength and Stay
Thomas PAUL was raised by a single mother after his father died young – a young Scotch woman who brought her children across the Atlantic on her own, seeking a better life for them. There he met and married a widowed single mother – a woman descended from a long line of New World settlers…
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Stone Roots in Minnesota: The Franklin Shermans
This article tells of how the STONE line connects with the SCOTT line. To read about the history of the STONE family, see our story Homesteaders: The Stone Line in the 19th Century. For the story of the SCOTTs and where they came from, see our story Scottish Canadians in the American Midwest – The Scotts. Franklin…
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Scottish Canadians in the American Midwest – The Scotts
Robert SCOTT was born on September 13, 1861, the eldest child of Thomas and Elizabeth (McCLENAGHAN) SCOTT. He was likely born in Ormstown, Canada, and was baptized Presbyterian in the Episcopal Church of England and Scotland, on November 21, 1861, in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.[1] Ormstown is in Quebec, near the Ontario border. This part of Canada on…
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Yams a’la Stone
These are the way Capt. Robert Scott STONE made his sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving and Christmas (and any holiday where you want yummy sweet potatoes, individual serving sizes). These can be topped with marshmallows or maraschino cherries, we prefer the cherries. You can even do a pecan crumble topping – whatever you wish! 6-8 large…
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Lost Family, Lost History: The Burchard Legacy
This story is for my father and all of his siblings and cousins, who never knew their maternal grandparents. Now they can. Eli Sanford BIRCHARD/BURCHARD (1830-1862) Eli Sanford BIRCHARD was born in August of 1830 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was the second son of Uriah and Julia (HYATT) BIRCHARD.[1] Altogether, the BIRCHARDs had 10…
Gathering Roots 