Spotsylvania Memory

George Washington Estes Row April 1883...      The last eight years had been good ones for George Row. With the ardor of a younger man...

For the more daring among my readers, I offer  four recipes from my family's kitchen, written in the 1800s. Hard soap Alum yeas...

Old Plank Road in Spotsylvania, 1863      During the summer of 1961, my father and my uncle Rolf built the house on Old Plank Road my f...

Oakley, 1935 (Frances Benjamin Johnston) Maria Lindsey Dobyns (Wesley Pippenger)      Oakley is one of the very few antebellum...

Madora and Absalom Chewning      It's one of those stories whose circumstances were not amusing to the participants at the time, bu...

John Edgar Willson      J. Edgar Willson, one of my great-grandmother's uncles, was born in Rockbridge County at the Willson farm ...

Maria Marshall (standing, second from right) and family, 1898      In my previous post I mentioned in passing that my great grandmothe...