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“Pitty Chapman” Mystery solved
I’m creating this entire post to answer the only question I’ve ever asked that Google couldn’t exactly answer. Not that they exist to exactly answer anything, I understand they’re just a search engine. I first came across the phrase while reading Thomas Bogg’s peddler application in the archived documents of the East and West Proprietors…
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James F Devenney, Hero of Slater House
In the late 1890’s, Slater House was home to my Scottish and Irish ancestors. James F Devenney married my great grand aunt, Elizabeth Brown (1898-1973). Elizabeth lived in Slater house as early as 1905, when she was 7 years old. Although James and Elizabeth were married in 1918, their first son Thomas was not born…
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How Young was “Young” in 1935?
It might sound like an age-bashing question, but this newspaper clipping is from 1935. I saw that Thomas Graham, Jr was the driver of the vehicle, and at 23 I think it’s still safe to call him young but the reporter didn’t list anyone else’s age. Let’s fact check the youth of the rest of…
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Married & Buried in One Week
George Clark wasn’t one of my ancestors (in fact it seems he might not have had time to make descendants), but the newspaper clipping from 13 Feb 1924, paints a picture of poor Ruby Mackentosh grieving her brand new husband in the very living room where she married him, only a week prior! I don’t…