52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Favorite Photo

January 13, 2020

Over the years I’ve written about various favorite photos and the 2020 theme for week two of the 52 Ancestors …

Everybody Loves A Parade

May 30, 2011

The floats in this parade are full of detail. Are the cars decorated with cotton? Can you imagine making them …

February 20, 2010

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~ James Thurber ~ …

February 17, 2010

James Lyman Rury & Maude Mae Rury nee Hilton

February 14, 2010

As I was deciphering the handwritten notes that my great grandmother, Maude Rury nee Hilton, had written on the backs …

February 11, 2010

Delicate, embroidered and lacey! Ottie carried this handkerchief on October 1, 1930 when she married Claude Brown. Typically, wedding handkerchiefs …

February 8, 2010

In 1925, after her father died, Ottie Rury quit school to go to work at Woolworth’s in Enid, Oklahoma. It …