Carroll County was created 23 December 1833 from the Choctaw Cession. Its county seats are Carollton and Vaiden Mississippi. The county is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. County records are housed in Vaiden. Carroll County is inside the Mississippi Delta, although most of its …
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One of my favorite color combinations–chartreuse and burgundy–make beautiful companions in this section of my garden. Sambucus nigra ‘Eva’ Black Lace is a dark foil for Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Nana Lutea’, two of my favorite plants.
James O’Reilly married Patrick Cavanagh and Bridget Murray in 1868 in Cleveland, Ohio. Here is some info I found on him at http://www.irisharchives.org/pdf/PioneerPriests.pdf.
Some of the ancestors I am researching are Patrick Fay, Patrick Cavanagh, and Mary Murray. They seem to have all come to the U.S. in the 1840’s or 1850’s. I don’t have photographs of them but I can use photos of the time to imagine what their trip and arrival must have looked like.
My husband’s ancestor, Frank L. Fay, was a telegram messenger boy in Cleveland, Ohio, in the early 1880’s. From Wikipedia: Telegraph boys (also referred to as district messenger boys, telegraph messenger boys, or simply as messenger boys) were uniformed young men between 10 and 18 years of age who, mounted on bicycles, carried telegrams through …
I recently found this nice booklet with some history of the Greenville Steel Car Company called, “A pictorial record of the Pittsburgh Forgings Company and the Greenville Steel Car Company” by Pittsburgh Forgings Company, published in 1946. You can download it here: http://www.clpdigital.org/jspui/handle/10493/844 Here is the cover shot: And some text from the booklet: Greenville …
Found at http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=488549.