good scrapin’

Everyone who loves old photos should check out the fabulous layout andilynn created for a photo of her grandmother. It knocks my socks off.

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furlough of William R. Meeks

I came across this while looking at service records. It is always a treat to come across an original document among the index cards. It is an even better treat if the document contains a description of an ancestor. Further evidence that I am spending too much time with the war instead of preparing for [...]

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Jesse Scarborough

Jesse Scarborough obituary, The Rosebud News, Rosebud, Texas, 14 December 1905.
The many friends of Miss Jesse Scarborough will feel sad to learn of her death and the family have our heartfelt sympathies. She died at Waco, Texas, last Friday morning about 4 o’clock. She had typhoid fever.
Later in the same issue.
Died at Waco.
Miss Jesse Scarborough, [...]

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Rebecca Bull Scarborough

Rebecca Scarborough obituary, The Rosebud News, Rosebud, Texas, 14 December 1905.

Old Grandma Scarborough is seriously ill at her son J. S. Scarborough.
LATER MONDAY: Grandma Scarborough died Sunday night about 8 o’clock. Was burried at Powers Chapel Monday evening.

Later in the same issue.

Grandma Scarborough Dead.
Grandma Scarborough, aged 78 years, died at the home of her son, [...]

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wordless wednesday – Sonora

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more Heber

My WW post this week is a photo that was taken in Heber City, Utah during the 2002 Winter Olympics. This steam locomotive is run by the Heber Valley Railroad. During the Olympics they used it to take visitors from Heber up to Soldier Hollow where the cross country events were held. Once there, they had mule [...]

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wordless wednesday – Heber

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Encyclopedia of Me

I have been thinking about participating in this meme at Bella Dia (ha-ha, me and meme) since first encountering it at Tookshire. It is based on Amy Rosenthal’s Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. Endless posts of public records and old newspaper clippings will get pretty dull and it fits with my theme, family history and lifestory writing. It could [...]

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What’s in a name?

My musings about names and naming traditions have me thinking about a little mystery. Among Bull researchers there has been some debate about Rebecca H. Bull’s middle name. Some think her middle name was Hogan, some think her middle name was Ho(l)mes. While writing my post of Oct 30 about names, it suddenly occurred to me [...]

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Bastrop County, Texas records

Deeds
Moore, L. B. & Judah from Chas. Cottingham, 196 acres, 16 Jun 1852, Bk H, Pg 380
Moore, Larkin B. from A. C. McKean, 22 Dec 1855, Bk K, Pg 14
Moore, Larkin B. to Timothy McKean, 01 Dec 1855, 04 Jan 1856, Bk K, Pg 13

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