We have spent the past three days discovering the places and events of St. Clair’s adulthood. He lived in Western Pennsylvania from the age of twenty-six until he was forty, then again when he was sixty-nine until his death at eighty-one. It was here that he gained and lost thousands of acres of property, served…
Today, Father’s Day, Akalena’s birthday, and the longest day of the year, we went back in time to 18th century Hannas Town, We learned about lacemaking, the clothes children wore, complete with lead lines to pull them back from the fire or other dangers. Girls’ dresses came with laces and growth pleats so they could…
First stop this morning was the Evergreen cemetery, where we discovered that the weathered gravestone we thought was Elizabeth Doxon’s was actually for her son William’s. It had a CSA 1861 -1865 on the stone, but I have found no record that he was a confederate soldier. I did find a record of William G….
