Outcasts – Escaping The Great Hunger in Ireland
The McGee and Carney families are outcasts in County Down, Ulster. They flee the Great Hunger in Ireland for a new home in America.
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My Homesteaders’ Education – Sunny Hill One Room School
Sunny Hill School was in Oak Grove Township 1875-1951. My great-great-grandfather, Enoch Parr was on the original school board.
Pioneer Life – Minnesota to North Dakota
-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…
Learning About Nebraska Homesteads
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…
Homestead National Monument & Homestead ACT of 1862
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…