Recent Memorial Pages by dbreckenridge

• Frances Slocum, Kidnapped White Woman

  Frances Slocum was captured by Delaware Indians from her family's home near Wilkes-Barre, PA, September 1778. She later married into the Miami tribe.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 09 Mar 2013 - 4,979 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 comment, 1 story

• Dr. T. S. Verdi, Seward's Physician

  Follow the life of Dr. Verdi in America

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 17 Feb 2013 - 947 views

  Contributions 2 comments, 1 story

• Women Soldiers of the Civil War

  Read about three of the most famous women who, disguised as men, served as soldiers in the Civil War.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 20 Apr 2012 - 26,018 views

  Contributions 4 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• Apollo 11, 1969

  In case Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin were unable to return to earth, Pres. Nixon had a speech prepared.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 22 Feb 2012 - 745 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• Continental Congress: Hospital Reports

  Medical treatement during the Revolutionary War.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 26 Jan 2012 - 215,054 views

  Contributions 2 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• American Revolution: Second Battle of Saratoga

  Read about Timothy Murphy, sharpshooter.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 19 Mar 2011 - 7,296 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 comment, 1 story

• Lewis Thornton Powell, Lincoln Co-conspirator

  Lewis Powell, tried under the surname Paine, was assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward at the same time Booth shot Lincoln.

  by dbreckenridge and others can contribute.

  Updated 25 Feb 2011 - 5,692 views

  Contributions 5 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• Revolutionary War Pensions: Battle Information on Application

  Read about the service of Matthias Armbruster of Pennsylvania.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 13 Jul 2010 - 45,086 views

  Contributions 2 images, 3 comments, 1 story

• Continental Congress - Papers: John Paul Jones

  America's first well-known naval hero

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 01 Jul 2010 - 7,634 views

  Contributions 3 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• Revolutionary War Pensions and Bounty-Land-Warrants

  How to use the Revolutionary War Pensions

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 27 Apr 2010 - 912 views

  Contributions 1 comment, 1 story

• Information in the Dawes Packets

  Sallie Featherstone applied for benefits as a mixed Choctaw/colored person.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 04 Mar 2010 - 1,153 views

  Contributions 7 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• Mosby's Partisan Rangers and the Lincoln Assassination

  Read about John Singleton Mosby, Willie Jett, A. R. Bainbridge, J. Ruggles and Lewis T. Powell.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 28 Oct 2009 - 1,679 views

  Contributions 7 images, 3 comments, 1 story

• Pennsylvania Archives: Master of Understatement

  Read the reports given with pension applications after the Revolutionary War

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 21 Feb 2009 - 404 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 comment, 1 story

• Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility"

  Sense and Sensibility

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 20 Feb 2009 - 2,039 views

  Contributions 1 image, 1 comment, 1 story

• The Armstrong Family of New York and Petersburg, VA.

  Follow the Armstrong family of Laurens, NY, and Petersburg, VA, through censuses and the Southern Claims Commission.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 19 Jan 2009 - 606 views

  Contributions 2 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• Illegitmate Births in Cleveland, OH, 1895

  Eighty-eight births recorded in 1895

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 31 May 2008 - 1,330 views

  Contributions 3 images, 1 story

• Pres. Lincoln's Carriage Restored

  The carriage Pres. and Mrs. Lincoln took to Ford's Theater that fateful evening has been restored and is now open to public view.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 14 Mar 2008 - 6,561 views

  Contributions 1 story

• Scams Aren't New

  Modern-day scams aren't new - they're just delivered via internet instead of regular mail.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 16 Feb 2008 - 1,433 views

  Contributions 3 images, 1 story

• Margaret Truman, Dead at Age 83

  Margaret Truman, the only child of Pres. Harry Truman and his wife, Bess, died 29 Jan 2008 in Chicago.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 30 Jan 2008 - 2,417 views

  Contributions 2 images, 1 story

• Confederate Amnesty Papers: A Mother's Plea

  All this mother wanted was her youngest son back.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 05 Dec 2007 - 1,655 views

  Contributions 2 images, 1 story