Salathiel Timmons appears in an online database of Civil War soldiers: At the time of his enlistment, he was married to Lydia and had a son Charles (my great-great-grandfather), then 18 months old. He served as a Private in the 123rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. According to family legend, Salathiel enlisted alongside his brothers Laban, Leroy and […]
Salathiel Timmons’ Civil War service
And now for something completely different. My great-great-great-grandfather Salathiel Timmons (1835-1909) was a solider in the Union Army during the Civil War. During his service, he contracted a rheumatic disease which ultimately led to heart disease and partial paralysis. Later in life, he applied for and received a military pension. For the benefit of the […]
Effie Graves
Back to the blog again – I was away for a couple of weeks while I moved everything to a new computer. That’s always a bigger job than you think it’s going to be. Last time we were looking at photos of Charles Timmons. Today, we’ll meet his sister Effie. We saw her previously in […]
Digital technology to the rescue
Nothing is sadder than a badly faded photo in your family album. Fortunately, digital technology can really come to the rescue, even if the photo is faded beyond recognition. In the last entry, we looked at a photo of Salathiel and Lydia Timmons along with their daughter Effie. Missing in that family photo was their […]
Thelma’s Photo Album
My grandma, Thelma Ethel (Frasier) Pearson, once made a photo album containing photos of her mother’s and father’s families. A few years ago, my mom took that photo album apart and then put it back together again using acid-free archival materials. She copied all of the inscriptions and kept all the photos is the same […]
