I just posted a simple web page of a news clipping about my 1st cousin, Joseph Walker, receiving a certificate. Ever wonder what’s “under the hood” of a web page? I’m going to intentionally oversimplify,
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1948 – Cousin Joseph Walker Gets Certificate
https://www.campbellluggblackwell.com/ClipJosWalker1948.html My 1st cousin, Joseph Hoyt Walker, completed a year long course at the NY State Highway Dept. He was good looking, personable, and played football before the war.
Continue ReadingPhotos of Leo C. Blanchard & O. B. Blanchard
Here’s a genealogy Chart One of our members is a child of Leo Close Blanchard. I remember visiting his parents, Oliver Benjamin “Ben” and Vera Close Blanchard at their home in Nelson, pn Rt. 49.
Continue ReadingNelson Graduation
Nelson school in background. Girl on left is my mother, Jessica HOYT Thompson. I believe the tall boy on the right is Wm. Sumner Copp. Perhaps 1910.
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I added a photo of a stump fence to https://www.campbellluggblackwell.com/BeechersIsland.html And I added a chapter on my mother, Jessica HOYT Thompson, to my memoir, https://www.campbellluggblackwell.com/WBTMemoirFamily_Mom.html
Continue ReadingFirst Installment of Mary HUGHEY Prescott’s Memoir – “A Scribbled Story of My Life”
Who Was She? Mary Estella HUGHEY Prescott, born 1899 in MN, died 1997in Seatle, WA, was a granddaughter of Elizabeth CAMPELL Hughey, daughter of Joseph and Ann Clinch Campbell. She grew up on a MN
Continue ReadingLycoming Co. (Part 3) [Originally posted Sept. 18, 2021]
I already spoiled any suspense by telling you that the “English Company” and the “English Settlement” failed. The settlers who came from England were experienced farmers. As you can see from the map below, the
Continue ReadingCrossword Puzzle #2 & Solution to #1
We found a better site for generating crossword puzzles. With the new site, you can do the puzzle on your computer, smartpone, or print it out to do with pen/pencil. And, with the new one,
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Introducing a new feature — Crossword puzzles based on our Family History. Have fun. And perhaps learn something that may be of interest. Puzzle #1 references the geography, and early history, of Tioga Co., PA.
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