My mother, Reatha May Myers, was born 23 May 1914, in the living quarters behind her father’s general store in Thunder Hawk, South Dakota. A month later, on 28 June, my father, Lovell Darvin Larson, was born in hospital at Sidney, Montana. Click here to view their place in the…
Welcome to the “original” telling (the first in English, as far as I know) of the Marte Østensdatter story. It was researched, compiled, and first presented in 2011, updated 2014, by Joanne Lillevold, all rights reserved. A thousand thanks to cousin Joanne for her permission to steal big chunks of…
Introduction First and foremost, a thousand thanks to cousin Joanne Lillevold, who originally researched this story, translated the source documents (drawing on her one year of college Norwegian, and struggling with several difficult, unstudied dialects), and presented it as a slide talk to her local genealogy society. While I am…
with Helen A. Colby (1850-1923) My great-grandfather Stephen Bennett Myers was born in Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio, 22 July 1848. His parents were Henry Bennett Myers and Leonora Brown (Henry’s first cousin on his mother’s side). Click here to view Stephen’s place in the family tree. There are no known…
Original post Sunday, March 14th, 2010 Abduction of Frances Slocum, by Jennie Brownscombe (1850-1936) Note that the depiction above is highly Romanticized, especially the Indian’s costume. The girl’s expression of panic, however, and her bare feet, are both poignant and corroborated by documented accounts of the event. [Picture, signed Jennie…