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They were enumerated in the 1860 census, living in Harrison Township, Henry County, Ohio. Barbara had two brothers who were also soldiers, Azariah Bost (enlisted in the 38th Ohio, Company B at age 17 on February 9, 1864; died of disease on March 22, 1864 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) and...
William was born around 1835 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He moved to Alabama and married Eliza Rutledge there in 1854. They had a son, William Alfonso, that was born on Sept. 9, 1855. In the 1860 census, the family was living in Choctaw County, Alabama, where William was a plante...
parker’s jewelry combines beadwork with quillwork, a choice that nods to the original way indigenous people used to adorn themselves. “if you look at how our ancestors were adorned pre-colonization, you’re not going to see beads,” she says. “you’ll notice that our adornment was made...
In 1847, during the dark heart of what the Irish call An Gorta Mór, the Great Hunger, the Choctaw Nation—or what was left of it at the end of the Trail of Tears in Oklahoma—sent $170 to Midleton in County Cork for the relief of victims of the famine. Two embattled tr...