Author's Note: This information is as accurate as found in my current research. Some men had one wife, others 56. Elias Gardner (son of William and Ann Gardner of Massachusetts) landed somewhere in the middle. He had nine wives -- Harriet, Amy, Betsy, Diantha, Ruth, Ellen, Ann, Emily + Martha. This is their story. Wife #1:... Continue Reading →
August 27, 1934 Dear Diary, I am sixteen years old and I just made the road trip from Bellingham, Washington to Sumas to cross the border at the Port of Huntingdon in British Columbia. I had never been across the border before and have been working as a domestic (housekeeper) before I decided to make... Continue Reading →
My name is Jane Angela Smith (née Dart) and I'm about to tell you my story. I lived a long life -- many of the victims of that horrible storm had barely begun their lives that were lost to the terrible disaster of mother nature in Galveston, Texas in August of 1915. But let us back... Continue Reading →
Hi, folks. The names Kitty Mesler and do I have a story to tell you. I was born to my ma and pa around the turn of the century, in the year 1901. When I was a young gal of 15 my parents sold me to a man named Andrew Stacy in marriage for some... Continue Reading →
My Dearest Readers, My name is Eva H. Wilcox. While I was born in New Brunswick, Canada in July of 1887. I'm not a full-blooded Canadian. My father (James Robert Wilcox) was born in Maine in 1848 and my dearest mother (Lucinda T. Plant) was born in New Brunswick in the year 1866. I was born in... Continue Reading →
Not much is known about Carrie S. Nickles (née Burnap), except that she died in May of 1897 -- her body wasn't found until June of 1897. Details of Carrie S. Burnap's early life are not known, but she was the wife of Benjamin J. Nickles and the mother of two sons, on an unknown... Continue Reading →
As this blog has evolved and grown over the past couple of months, I've tried to consolidate all of my genealogical-type posts in one place, here at The Hipster Historian. One of these types of posts was my feminist-centered blog on Tumblr called Forgotten Women of History, which I am reviving here at The Hipster Historian. You... Continue Reading →
Note: Instead of posting this yesterday on actual Valentine's Day I forgot and spent it with my husband. So, here is Tombstone Tuesday...ehh...I'll have to call it Waiting to Find the Dead Wednesday. It's not every year that Tombstone Tuesday falls on a holiday and even rarer that it falls on a holiday that is... Continue Reading →
Every single week here at The Hipster Historian we follow the blog prompt Tombstone Tuesday (originating from Genabloggers) and we've really enjoyed it -- see the past two weeks here and here. Why females? Most of the time when you find headstones, it tends to downplay the significance of the females in these worlds until... Continue Reading →
Tombstone Tuesday has quickly become my favorite genealogy prompt from the Geneablogger with Thomas MacAntee. Last week it was the first edition. I'm a sucker for cemeteries (I have well over 500+ photos of gravestones on my hard drive right now). Each week of Tombstone Tuesday, I'm going to feature different stories, ideas or facts about cemeteries,... Continue Reading →
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