The Olden Times
Updates: August 10, 2001
Hi Ya'll!
I can't believe how busy 8 puppies, 2 boys, and a very high-maintenance visiting 4 year-old have kept me!
When I finally realized that I would be unable to get anything done n the way of work, I decided to just give up and join them. Some of the results are in the Poodle Album.
Now that my sweet niece has headed home I'm going to get this newsletter out as quickly as I can before I collapse & sleep for 12 hours!
I wish this edition of the Updates were going to be really long, but it'll have to be brief, as events here at home (I do all of this in my very cluttered dining room) have kept me too busy to add as many old newspaper stories as I'd like to have added.
Some Wonderful Connections!
In the last newsletter, I mentioned a very exciting bit of "Connections" news, and now it's been confirmed!
Last fall I began The Victorian Scrapbook section of this website in order to post some old photos I found in a Fort Worth flea market. The album, which was literally crumbling into pieces, had probably sat in an attic or under a porch for the better part of a hundred years. Somehow it ended up on a jumble of junk on a sale table in the Will Rogers Cattle Barn. When I saw that many of the old pictures had names written on the pages, I had to have it!
Many of you have looked at and admired these old pictures of the WHARTON and GILLIAM families, and of others who may be extended relations or family friends, but no one had recognized any ancestors.
Well...apparently someone over at the newspaper in Paris, Texas decided to mention this album & website, and some WHARTON & GILLIAM descendants finally learned about these old pictures.
I don't know who is more excited: these nice folks, or me!
I have a feeling you'll be excited, too: these cousins didn't know anything about each other before they found out about the album on this website. You'll enjoy this story as much as I have. It's continuing to evolve, and I hope that this nice family will allow me to share the continuing story with you as we go along.
And as if I weren't already too excited to remember my own name, I heard from the grandson of Mr. Hiram Jefferson Broiles, who wrote to tell me that his grandfather is alive & well and wondering who in the heck has these old pictures!
You can read more about these and other fun finds in the Connections pages this week.
For those of you who are new subscribers, this portion of The Olden Times is not indexed by the FreeFind search engine's spider, so you have the advantage of the updates and the bimonthly index of locations only if you're a subscriber.
For whatever that's worth. Hey - at least it's free!
Don't forget: I'm a one-woman operation here...
As usual, this week's newsletter includes names added in the past two weeks AND locations, too, along with a few notable headlines.
For those of you who are new to this newsletter, I'm going to add a new page where you can link to past issues of Updates.
Announcing...
The very nice folks over at Genealogy Today have made it possible for you to search surnames on both The Olden Times and Genealogy Today's vast site. Of course, you can still search for names, keywords, dates, locations, etc., on our FreeFind search engine. All are available on the Site Search page.
Read more about our partnership in this press release.
Who wants to win some great free books?
I do! I do! The University of North Carolina Press' website still has a book giveaway going on! Just fill in your name & email address and you're entered for a free book package drawing. No skill required whatsoever (whew!). Good luck!
Folks are making connections!
I can't tell you how thrilled I am when someone finds a familiar name here on The Olden Times! I've begun adding a few of the interesting emails that I receive about this site and the old stories. There isn't a link yet from the main part of the site, but you can see the beginning of this new section on the Connections pages.
I'm still behind, as always, in getting everything online, but I'll keep working at it, so if you don't see something that you've sent to me, please be patient with me and keep watching...
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again: ya'll truly are some of the nicest folks around, judging from your email, and I am so happy to be able to share this with you. I really enjoy it.
Besides, if I weren't sharing these old newspapers and all of their clues, I'd have no excuse for all the papers piled up around my house.
I am very grateful for your support, whether you've told someone about The Olden Times, or bought your printer ink or books from one of my sponsors' links on these pages, or simply emailed me to tell me that you like the website.
Any way you slice it, you've helped me out. A small portion of your printer ink or book dollars goes to The Olden Times, which helps me pay for these old newspapers. Someday I might whittle that credit card balance back down again. Maybe.
And your wonderful emails always lift my spirits and give me new energy. And I can use a lot of extra energy these days.
I hope to live up to my end of the deal by continuing to provide good content...at a price you'll always like: FREE!
By the way - I also appreciate it when you email me to let me know I've got a bad link on the site! I barely have time to make this thing, much less surf it. While I try to test each page when I first add it, I still make some really dumb mistakes, and I really appreciate it when you take the time to let me know when a picture is missing (or is the wrong one), or that the page is missing altogether. Thank you for helping me get it fixed by letting me know about it! Otherwise, who knows how long it would be before I figured it out?
I feel like I'm forgetting something... a lot of somethings... but I'd better give up and get this newsletter out!
As always, thanks for your patience, and thanks for visiting.
Barbara Allen
Cooking in Cowtown (and I don't mean supper)
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Names Added in the Past Two Weeks
Locations Mentioned in the Past Two Weeks
African Americans, Freedmen or Slaves in the News:
Robert McCOY Hung at Sylvania for Murder of James MILLER, GA, 1885
EDWARDS Sentenced for SMILEY Murder, LA, 1912
Notable:
4 Year-Old HALSELL Child Saves Sister from Drowning, 1913
William BUTTIMER Wins Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, 1888
This must've taken some coordination! Four Mail Trains Collide at Richmond, VA, 1881
The South is Safe: William VARBLE to the Rescue! 1861, KY
That Obstinate Hazel Hogan! IL, 1912
Crimes and Politics...or is that redundant?
Robert McCOY Hung at Sylvania for Murder of James MILLER, GA, 1885
BRUCE Murders LEUTZ at Douglas, Illinois, 1885
Kidnappers WILLIAMS & MILLER Sentenced for ROWLAND Abduction, GA, 1830
Militant Suffragette Jailed for Kew Arson in London, 1913
EDWARDS Sentenced for SMILEY Murder, LA, 1912
Accidents:
Catharina Regina Runs Aground, 1887
SWEEDEN's Hands Blown Off in Explosion, 1881
This must've taken some coordination! Four Mail Trains Collide at Richmond, VA, 1881
Military & Vets:
Gunner of Cape Fear Artillery Seriously Injured in Explosion, NC, 1881
Seaforth Highlanders, Glasgow
WWI: Sgt. PARMELEE of Knoxville, TN, Captures 16 Huns, 1919
Wiley COLE Honorably Discharged from Marines, 1919
Honors for the 115th Field Artillery, The Nashville Banner, 1919
Ships:
Migrations:
HILL from Maine to Pennsylvania, then to Minnesota
PLASTERER from Pennsylvania to Minnesota
GROVE & AU from Pennsylvania to Ohio, then back to Pennsylvania
New State:
New Topical Index:
The Victorian Scrapbook:
The WHARTON Album
The Rowland-Broiles Album:
Recipes:
Spice Cake, 1887
Iced Tea, 1887
Poetry:
Fairly Funny Stuff:
A New Twist on an Old Rhyme: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-Eater 1913
Vintage Postcards:The Alamo Cenotaph, San Antonio, Texas
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