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Feature Friday – July 11, 2008

Feature Friday posts will feature relevant information from a chosen online resource. This month, the database is Footnote.
Footnote.com offers a variety of historical documents online categorized in several collections. One such collection is the Project Blue Book, 1947-1969. This collection was digitized from the National Archives and was a project to determine if UFOs were [...]

Obituary: William Tannehill

Here’s a post that is not specifically about Washington County, but is of relevance. One of the families I am tracking is that of Dr. Augustus Harvey MacNair of Edgecombe County, NC. I believe Dr. MacNair to have been a slaveowner of my 3rd great-grandfather, Rufus Tannahill McNair.
Dr. MacNair had a sister named [...]

Response to an Article

A Card
Roanoke Beacon, pg. 2
March 4, 1898
I have just seen an article in the “Assembly Standard” which is not only untrue, but does me a gross injustice. I am charged in said article, as being the cause of trouble, which occurred in the town of Plymouth last Saturday night.
The facts are these: Mr. Louis Owens [...]

William C. Ayers’ Garlic Machine

Thus far in my indexing, I have come across two notices that mention W.C. Ayers and his garlic machine which he patented. A notice in the July 5, 1889 issue mentions that he is testing his machine and a notice in the November 29, 1889 issue stated that he had gone up north to [...]

Beacon Flashes – 3 Jan 1890

Beacon Flashes
January 3, 1890
Pg. 3

Mr. J. H. Leggett spent the Xmas vacation in Williamston.
Master Tommie Rogerson is on a visit to relatives in Norfolk.
There were 19 marriages in the town during the year 1889.
Mr. Henry Alexander, of Columbia, gave us a call on Wednesday.
Rev. C. W. Robinson made a short visit to Washington this week.
Prof. [...]

Issues Posted

I will use this entry to keep track of issues of the Roanoke Beacon that I have gone through and posted information from.
1889 – Sep 6, Oct 18, Oct 25, Nov 1, Nov 8, Nov 15, Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 6, Dec 201890 – Jan 3, Jan 10,

Continuing the Experiment

Yesterday, I posted on my main genealogy blog, that I was considering doing some indexing of a black newspaper that used to be published here in Nashville from 1906-1960. Well, last night, I ended up starting a blog for it and to that blog I will post various items from the paper.
I already [...]

Welcome!

Like I need another blog! Oh well, somehow, I just felt inspired …
Welcome to my blog for the index I’m working on for the Roanoke Beacon newspaper of Plymouth, North Carolina. I am SELECTIVELY indexing the paper for items of genealogical import as my maternal grandmother is from Washington County and there is apparently [...]