Category: American Civil War
Posts about ancestors who fought in the Civil War
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Not a lot of information survived the years, but we can set a marker down and keep studying. There is always more to learn.
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Picking up where our story of John H. Callin left off, his wife, Amanda Walker, saw the world change drastically between her girlhood in the 1880s and her death during the Great Depression.
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Our ancestors often lived in the margins of history, and even those who left few records can teach us a lot, if we’re willing to study the context.
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The biography of John H. Callin has layers that shift in meaning, depending on how deeply you examine the records and artifacts he left behind.
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Welcome to a wrap-up/overview of the previous eight weeks! What interesting patterns do we see in each generation? Let’s compare them!
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History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. And so did my ancestor, whose frustration with the outcome of the Civil War was captured in his poetry.
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Another installment of the Callin families who stayed in Milton Township, Ohio, after the first generation of settlers (James and John) died.
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Even those who remained don’t seem to have stayed put for long. A generation after Ann and Henry Campbell, their Campbell descendants were scattered far to the south and west of Ohio.
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Now that we’ve covered those who left, let’s begin looking at those who stayed in Milton Township!
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The No Kings event last Saturday wasn’t just a demonstration of anger or outrage; it was a statement that, like our ancestors before us, we are not willing to have our power taken away by bullies.
