If your ancestors are European American and from the South, chances are they owned human beings.
Read More
Through stories and retrospectives we discover more about our family, our lineage, and maybe even a little more about ourselves.
Commemorating Ancestry Through Curated Design
In her first entry in her journal on Monday, January 1, 1877, Gertrude “Gertie” Peck writes: New Years day finds me at Mr. Cross’s enjoying fun of the best kind…
Ona Stella was a prolific painter. Ona was born in Kansas in September, 1873 only months after the tumultuous journey her family made from Ohio to Kansas seeking a more fruitful life on the plains.
By looking at the photos of her, you’d think she was a hard woman, an unhappy woman, a woman that controlled all that surrounded her.
She’s been here a long time, 111 years to be exact. She is poised between two hills, another house is about a half a mile west, and another a half mile east.