Category: Colorado
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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Married after the end of the Second World war, my maternal grandparents embarked on a lengthy 50-year journey. Here’s a taste of it!
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We think of our institutions and building as permanent, but they have lifespans, too – sometimes as short as our own. Here’s one story of a building built by a Callin architect.
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The first of two artifacts that came to my possession, recently. This 60-minute tape has a lot of memories from my great-grandmother, Merle (Huff) Witter.
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Seeking unknown children can be a roundabout task Last time I talked about this family, I pointed out that Adam Smith (1792-1847) and Experience Garretson (1800-1897) probably had more children than were named in the 1850 Census, based on the 1840 count of their household: Today, I want to build the case that I found…
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Two brothers, both railroad men, led different lives In case you don’t recall from last year’s “Family Reunions” series, William F. Martin was the paternal grandfather of my wife’s maternal grandmother – he was one of Her Sixteen: That post did a quick overview of William and Hattie’s only son, Howard W. Martin, a successful…
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Seeking the Wavetop for my Hart family A year ago, I wrote about my maternal grandmother’s paternal grandmother (one of My Sixteen), Florence Mabel (Hart) Tuttle (1874-1945): I followed Florence’s ancestry from there through her mother, Harriet Isette (Wells) Hart. Today, I am looking at her paternal ancestry. Seymour C Hart (1851–1934) was the youngest…
Mightier Acorns 