Are You Intensely Curious?
Are You Intensely Curious?
Arthur Parr was born July 5, 1758, in Rowan, North Carolina. He was the first son of Arthur Parr (Maryland) and Margaret Wright (Hillsboro, North Carolina). When Arthur was 6 years old, his father died from injuries received transporting an…
To learn about Nebraska homesteads, I had to learn something new from Towner County, North Dakota’s Clerk of Court, Jolene Hoffert. Her office was terrific in looking up all kinds of land records for my McGee ancestors. When they found…
In Beatrice, Nebraska, the National Parks Service has a National Monument dedicated to the Homestead Act of 1862. The Homestead Act was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, after 11 states had seceded from the Union. Passing…
In school, I was never interested in history. Actually, I was rarely engrossed in any type of class that didn’t involve figuring things out. History class was all about events with dates to be memorized – not something to be…