Popular Memorial Pages

• Samuel Morgan LEWIS b. Jamestown, VA

  This is one of my GGGrandfth's, the father of John Henry LEWIS b. Portsmouth, VA. He also, joined the CONFEDERATE cause in spite of his age, due to the…

  by llighthse

  Updated 14 Nov 2010 - 19,403 views this week (172,849 total)

  Contributions 35 images, 8 stories

• Zumbi dos Palmares

  Zumbi (Alagoas, 1655 — 20 de novembro de 1695) foi o último dos líderes do Quilombo dos Palmares. Dia 20 de Novembro - Dia da Consciência Negra é…

  by mestrepaulao and others can contribute.

  Updated 09 Jul 2010 - 4,737 views this week (1,352,432 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• 1,648 Slaves in the Estate of Nathaniel Heyward, Charleston, SC, 1851

  The estate inventory of Nathaniel Heyward, filed in June of 1851, lists the names of 1,648 enslaved ancestors on 15 plantations in Charleston, Colleton…

  by Lowcountry_Africana and others can contribute.

  Updated 20 Feb 2012 - 4,466 views this week (145,632 total)

  Contributions 20 images, 19 stories

• Underground Railroad

  You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich.…

  by bgill

  Updated 21 Jan 2010 - 3,622 views this week (125,543 total)

  Contributions 44 images, 4 comments, 46 stories

• Slave Rebellion

  Slave owners lived in fear of slave revolts, a fear which was far from unfounded: from the Amistad mutiny to the Underground Railroad, American slaves led…

  by bgill

  Updated 25 Dec 2010 - 3,282 views this week (137,478 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 3 comments, 25 stories

• African American Patriots of the Revolutionary War

  In 1775, the citizens of the Massachusetts colony were setting course for a war that would decide the fate of a nation. ~Page One

  by bgill

  Updated 11 Oct 2011 - 2,644 views this week (99,697 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 37 stories

• The Cherokee Trail of Tears

  The forced relocation of American Indians began with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In 1838 the Cherokee Indians became the fifth major tribe to…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 14 Feb 2012 - 2,602 views this week (101,228 total)

  Contributions 11 images, 7 comments, 2 stories

• FEMALE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS & SPIES

  Like most historic battles, the U.S. Civil War had its spies--men and women--on both sides. It was a hazardous occupation with few rewards.

  by bgill

  Updated 24 Jan 2012 - 2,447 views this week (114,219 total)

  Contributions 36 images, 7 comments, 28 stories

• John W Creasy

  by Fold3_Team and others can contribute.

  Updated 01 Dec 2008 - 2,166 views this week (4,507 total)

• Emmanuel O. LITTLE b. 1865 in Northern, Maryland

  This is one of the Grandfather's of Gladys Lavenia STONER-HANDIBOE, mother of William Roy HANDIBOE. This LITTLE, married a "twin" SMITH, as well as his…

  by llighthse

  Updated 11 Jan 2011 - 2,000 views this week (215,968 total)

  Contributions 28 images, 1 comment, 2 stories

• Dr. Samuel Alexander MUDD

  Samuel Alexander Mudd I, M.D. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883)

  by llighthse and others can contribute.

  Updated 29 Nov 2011 - 1,656 views this week (84,012 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 comment, 1 story

• Buddy Holly's plane crash site

  On Feb 2, 1959, rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Big Booper performed at Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. Shortly after midnight, the three…

  by Edward1026 and others can contribute.

  Updated 26 Jan 2012 - 1,453 views this week (64,978 total)

  Contributions 19 images, 2 comments, 9 stories

• Zelda Kaplan

  by Fold3_Team and others can contribute.

  Created 02 Nov 2009 - 1,271 views this week (1,301 total)

  Contributions 1 image

• Four Little Girls: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

  Articles and information from The Clarion-Ledger investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell regarding the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in…

  by historybeat

  Updated 20 Apr 2011 - 1,254 views this week (22,508 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 2 comments, 20 stories

• Herbert L. Rawlings Jr.

  by welsh_jamaica and others can contribute.

  Updated 17 Nov 2010 - 1,137 views this week (4,097 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• The Prohibition Era, 1919-1933

  Prohibition began with temperance movements throughout the United States before the Civil War. Alcohol consumption had become closely related with poverty…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 07 Jan 2012 - 1,073 views this week (49,871 total)

  Contributions 28 images, 1 comment, 2 stories

• Female hangings 1632 to 1900

  It is thought that altogether around 505 women were put to death in the U. S. between 1608 and 1900. At least eight teenage girls were hanged. Hannah…

  by bgill

  Updated 13 Oct 2011 - 997 views this week (47,694 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 9 stories

• Female Guards in Nazi Concentration Camps

  by bgill and others can contribute.

  Updated 24 Nov 2011 - 798 views this week (6,621 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 64 stories

• Brown vs. Board of Education

  After the Supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the doctrine of “separate but equal” applied to all segregated facilities throughout…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 09 Dec 2008 - 754 views this week (50,547 total)

  Contributions 14 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• Footnotes for "Ancestors of Arthur Dwight 'Buck' Lackey"

  These footnotes correspond to the story pages "Ancestors of Arthur Dwight 'Buck' Lackey". The footnotes are arranged by family group number.

  by HilaryPerez

  Updated 08 Jan 2008 - 716 views this week (72,795 total)

  Contributions 35 stories