Monday, June 29, 2026

MUNSON TALES: Love, Abolition, Suffrage, and Frederick Douglass (Clan Ephraim) Part 2

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Part 1 can be found here The Civil War came and his sons Frederick, Lewis, and Charles all served in various capacities. Finally, the Emanci...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

MUNSON TALES: Love, Abolition, Suffrage, and Frederick Douglass (Clan Ephraim) Part 1

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On 14 Feb 1818, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who would later become known as Frederick Douglass, was born in what was most likely h...
Saturday, June 27, 2026

MUNSON TALES: Eureka! A straight barrel at last! (Clan Jabez)

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It was quite a treat to run across a story from Clan Jabez. The clan is very small. I want to start with Henry Munson’s mother, Lucy Munson....
Friday, June 26, 2026

Lost In a French Village 1962

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The opportunity to get my mom to tell me stories is dimming. I took her to a doctor's appointment this week and asked her about a photo ...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

MUNSON: A Meeting of the Munson Minds, Boscobel, WI June 2025

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Summer is in full gear, the grandson is off with his parents for summer, and projects galore around the homestead that all seem to have the ...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

LAY Family: And the work begins

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John David "Big Valley" Dave Lay (Nancy Lay's big brother) Nancy Lay (abt. 1768-abt. 1860) is the daughter of Jesse Lay, Sr., ...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

SMITH Family: Mary Adaline Smith Hoard Albert Burgos Albert (1890-1949)

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The old Fort Jones est. 1852 My paternal grandmother, Verlie Smith, was one of 11 brothers and sisters. She was third from the  youngest. H...