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Tag Archives: letters
Election Day romance
Before the commercialization of Christmas took hold, before the Easter bunny was born, and before Thanksgiving became a pig-out, Election Day was America’s big, festive holiday. Amid the Election Day celebration of 1899, my great-grandparents’ courtship began. The history of … Continue reading
Playing games with the ancestors
Flinch, a game played with a custom-made deck of cards, was invented in 1901 by A.J. Patterson. He grew up on a farm in Michigan and graduated from high school at the age of sixteen. After working at jobs in … Continue reading
Posted in genealogy, history, Uncategorized
Tagged ancestors, card games, flinch, letters, Victorian era, vintage games
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The insane asylum next door
In a letter to my great-grandmother in about 1941, her sister, Emma Davies Sharp Smith, sketched her memories of their childhood home in Columbus, Ohio, where they lived on Marion Street: It was a dead end st. at both ends … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War, genealogy, mental health
Tagged ancestors, Andersonville, Civil War, columbus, letters, lunatic asylum, Ohio
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