I wrote recently about my grandfather’s brother, Sam Silver. Sam was a handsome man who served in the Spanish-American War and disappeared, both from our family history and from the census and other written documents until reappearing in the 1920 …
Sam Silver was my grandfather’s brother, my great-uncle. Unless he is the oldest man in the world, in which case he probably would have been in the newspapers and I would know where he is, he is long deceased by …
Photography has been a vital element of family history since its earliest days. We cherish the oldest photographs taken when photography was an art practiced by a knowledgeable few. Now we live in an age where every moment of our …
This is the third part of a series about my grandfather, Alexander Silver. You can read Parts I and II by following the links. Alexander Silver married Pauline Bublick in November of 1896. He was twenty years old and …
In Part I of this series I listed some of the facts I know about my grandfather’s life. In this post I have turned those facts into a story My grandfather’s story is in many ways an ordinary story. Grandpa’s …
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