GraveObsessions
Digging up my roots!
Month: January 2024
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Susan A. Simpson
Susan Ann Simpson was born in Fort Covington, Franklin County, New York on 15 June 1847, the second child of six born to George W. and Achsa (Sisco) Simpson (and their only daughter). Aunt Susie (she was the sister of my great grandfather, Ernest L. Simpson) had surgery when she was young to have a
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Lumbering in Minnesota in the early 20th Century
If your colonial family came from Maine like mine did, they were likely engaged in or supported the lumber industry. Later, when the local forests were depleted and barren, many of those Mainers headed west to Minnesota and other regions where pine was still plentiful. Thus it was with my grandmother’s maternal family who relocated
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