Stories from the Rogers & Jones Family Tree.
On the morning of Thursday, May 23, 1889, David W. Vandeveer woke to find his Newfoundland dog, Rebel, dead. Nine other dogs in Stanford, Kentucky, would be found “sleeping the sleep that knows no waking” that day.[1] Who, or what, had killed ten dogs in this small town? Stanford’s newspaper, the Interior Journal, reported on... Continue Reading →
Seventeen-year-old Lida Pratt Hornsey gathered up her schoolbooks and scurried out the door of 75 North Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky on the morning of Tuesday, October 12, 1897.[1] The shouts of her younger sister, Tommie, to wait up faded as her booted feet carried her down the cobblestone street.[2] Lida tightly clasped her fur-trimmed cape... Continue Reading →
After a few months away (I've been working on a genealogy certificate through Boston University), here is the story of my first cousin four times removed, Oscar Brewer, and his favorite song in 1888.
An inspiration for the film "A League of Their Own", our cousin Mabel Bernice Holle was one of the first professional female baseball players in the United States.
A block-long, three-story brick complex stands between South and Water Streets in Mayfield, Kentucky [8]. Flat brick pilasters break up the great expanses of wall, and an arched entranceway once welcomed hundreds of employees into one of the largest clothing factories in the nation [3, 8]. The Merit Pant Company (also called the Mayfield Pants... Continue Reading →
Learn about our miasmaphobic ancestor, Hugh Lonney, and his response to the 1833 cholera epidemic of Lexington, Kentucky.
A story about my great grandmother, Elnora Calhoun from her great niece, Evelyn Calhoun Rogers.
It was a warm summer day in Denver, Colorado when three boys made a gruesome discovery in the waters of Little Dry Creek [9, 23]. The children had been searching the park for golf balls, but instead found the lifeless body of Mrs. Helene Müllner, who had been reported missing ten days prior [23]. Helene... Continue Reading →
Like most children, my brothers and I would often seek out our mother throughout the day – to ask what was for dinner, tattle on someone, tell her we were bored, etc. If we found our father first and asked him if he had seen Mom, a common refrain was, “She went out to feed... Continue Reading →
In the wee hours of June 16, 1923, Golden Helen Ebrecht and her husband, Said Alawi, are found dead in their St. Louis apartment. Who killed them, and why?
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