Showing posts with label Gibson County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gibson County. Show all posts
Saturday, January 28, 2023

The Remarkable Story of the McClure Brothers (Civil War/Gibson County History)

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You can read part of the story in the news article, below, published on page 4 of the 1 Sep 1911 Evansville Journal newspaper. It tells of t...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

WM C HASSELBRINK OF FRANCISCO INDIANA FOUND!

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 FRANCISCO MAN GOES MISSING FOR 20 YEARS ------------- Just walks away from shop, farm and family - DISAPPEARS! ------------- DISCOVERED DEA...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Alice K. Thurston, Deaf and Determined, my 2nd cousin

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This morning, I came to the Thurston branch of my family tree, which shoots off from the Greeks and McCormicks of Gibson County, Indiana. Fo...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

My pioneer family and ties to Lewis & Clark

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Today's pioneer history lesson takes us back to 1799 and Gibson County's oldest known settler, Keen Field. I was transported back in...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Morris Birkbeck's "Notes on a journey in America," 1818

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An English gentleman set out from the British Isles to begin his “voluntary exile” in the first half of the year 1817. Journaling along the...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Black Hoosier History: Lyles Station

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Indiana’s attitude toward slavery wavered generally between acceptance and neutrality, but as a whole, it was never a “slave state.” In fact...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Decker Township (Knox Co) Connections

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The excerpt above is from The History of Knox and Daviess counties, Indiana (The Goodspeed Publishing Co, 1886) . I found it while researchi...
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