Are You Intensely Curious?
Are You Intensely Curious?
Every now and then, someone asks a question that really makes you stop and think. The question of the day is why don’t I have black hair and dark skin. For those of you who know me, this sounds like…
-After William McGee returned home from duty in the Civil War, he moved his family to High Forest Township, Minnesota, around 1866. High Forest is the township immediately south of Rochester City. In 1883, John Carney McGee and two of…
Sometimes it helps to keep asking questions about family puzzles. Sometimes it helps to just be lucky. And other times, it takes having knowledgeable strangers just knowing where to look for answers. This time it took all of the above.…
Colonial patriots may have seen the end of the war in sight if they could just dislodge the British from the South. Count Pulaski had left General George Washington’s side to create the first calvary that was called Pulaski’s Legion…
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…