Aurora Lodge 48: Souvenir Program Dedication & Consecration of the Masonic Temple
The Census Taker
It was the first day of census, and all through the land each pollster was ready…a black book in hand. He mounted his horse for a long dusty ride, his book and some quill were tucked close by his side. A long winding ride down a road barely there; Toward the smell of fresh bread …
The Puzzled Census Taker
“Got any boys?” the Taker said To a lady from over the Rhine, And the lady shook her flaxen head, And civilly answered, “Nine!” “Got any girls?” the Taker said To the lady from over the Rhine, And again the lady shook her head And civilly answered “Nine!” “Husband, of Course?” the Taker said To …
Small Religious Booklet Digitized during Meeting Demonstration
Thank you to SCCOGS Historian, Judy Karshner, for participating in this month’s meeting demonstration. The file below entitled “What Southern Baptist Believe and Why” was part of a family genealogical collection relating to the Union Baptist Church in Strickett, Lewis County, Kentucky along the Kinniconick Creek. It was digitized using a Neat Desk scanner and …
Finding the Lost Williamson Children
Over the years I have been to Carey’s Run Cemetery several times. My first visit was in 2001 while doing community service with a local church. At the time I was more concerned with how I was going to clear a hillside of overgrowth without adequate tools and being envious of those that had taken …
The Roth Family Rediscovered
With the forecast crisis of flooding avoided today I visited one of my favorite places, Ghosts in the Attic. A multi-story antique mall that occupies a structure in the Boneyfiddle Historical District that has been everything from a funeral home to a furniture store, but today as an antique mall they have become a repository …
1st Lieutenant Robert C Lemley
While on a recent walking tour of the Old Wheelersburg Cemetery with the Local History Department of the Portsmouth Public Library I came upon the stone of 1st Lieutenant Robert C. Lemley. Aside from the simple grave marker unadorned with the trappings typical seen with the headstones of service members there was the last line that read, “Killed in …
Mary Reynolds
“Mary Reynolds, an aged inmate of the infirmary, died yesterday morning. She was admitted from Porter township in 1886.”
