by Marc | Dec 31, 2020 | ARC, WAW
Edward “Ned” Mason was born enslaved on a plantation in Washington County, Georgia, in the year 1847. He was the first child of the young couple Alfred and Hannah Mason, who had both been born into enslaved themselves, probably on the same plantation where Edward was...
by Marc | Dec 31, 2020 | WAW
The Cay Phillip and Timothy are best friends and they live in Denmark. Both of their fathers are fishermen, and they love going out on the fishing boats, which is how they first met. Suddenly, the sound of torpedoes fill the air. Submarines, Aircrafts, and the Nazis....
by Marc | Dec 2, 2020 | ARC, WAW
William Morris Anderson and Emma Louisa Keefer married in 1902 and were husband and wife for more than sixty years. They spent their entire lives within 50 miles of their birthplaces, and upon their deaths came to rest together in a local cemetery. It made perfect...
by Marc | Nov 3, 2020 | ARC, WAW
William Duncan, the eldest son of Frederick and Catherine Duncan, was born after New Years of 1876 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. He was baptized that same year at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and bore the name of his German grandfather, Wilhelm, anglicized as...
by Marc | Oct 3, 2020 | ARC, WAW
Having been born in Loyalton, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1885, James Edward Batdorf had little control over his fate. In an area where nearly all employment was tied directly or indirectly to the world’s largest deposits of anthracite coal, he became a coal...
by Marc | Sep 1, 2020 | ARC, WAW
In 1868, William and Elizabeth lived a couple miles west of Port Trevorton, Snyder; sadly the this is year she passes away. Their home was very rural, as they were outside even the small town, surrounded by very little but nature. To the north of their property was...
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