Near Highland Lake Mort and Jennie Austin Wilhelm and Mary Nellie Bosch George W.T. and Martha Mills Myers James and Margaret Mills Boyd Elizabeth Gillespie Mills Augustus Myers Maria Middaugh Stephen and Charlotte Myers Mary Mills Wait North, Central, and … Continue reading
In 1910 Enrico Caruso, the famous singer, had been making recordings with the Victor Talking-Machine Company for 6 years.—wikipedia.org. Aunt Aida heard Caruso sing and told me that all the things she had heard about what an objectionable person he … Continue reading
One of several items I am working on (besides getting ready for a daughter’s wedding in October—hence the fewer posts) for book 3 are the jobs the Town of Highland residents held in the 1920s. Echo Hill and Mountain Grove … Continue reading
On the night my great-grandfather William Henry Austin died in April of 1909, my grandmother Jennie Austin caught a terrible cold going to get help from a neighbor. Grandma developed pneumonia and was cared for by Dr. F.I. Smith. Years … Continue reading
