Carol Stetser
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Is it my Story to Tell?
June 26, 2020 In the course of doing research, most genealogists eventually run across sensitive information. Many times it concerns secrets that our ancestors went to their graves hiding because of the shame they felt about an event such as a first baby born only five months after a wedding. In other cases, such as …
Aged Veterans and Younger Wives
June 19, 2020 Last week I wrote about veterans from America’s earlier wars who still had surviving children decades after the wars ended. Irene Triplett, whose story I mentioned in my last blog, was the daughter of a Civil War veteran; she just died this month in spite of the fact that her father’s service …
History Alive
June 12, 2020 You may have seen an article by Ian Shapiro in The Washington Post online last week describing the death of the last Civil War Pensioner, Irene Triplett. Irene’s death, at age 90, marked the close of the pension books for the Civil War – 155 years after the war’s conclusion. Although it …