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News / Keepers of the Light

« on: January 24, 2018, 03:31:52 PM »

Locke descendant Mary Neal and her spouse Joseph Robinson tended the lighthouse at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor in 1843-1846.  _{http://www.portsmouthharborlighthouse.org/portsmouth-harbor-lighthouse/history-portsmouth/}

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News / Gone West, One State at a Time

« on: January 23, 2018, 07:47:13 PM »

This was amusing ... descendants found in Oregon, in 1900, apparently went to a new state with each child. 

I was a rambunctious child myself, but my parents were never asked to move as a result!

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News / Josiah Locke Frost, Migrant to Calif Gold Fields then Wisconsin

« on: January 10, 2018, 02:23:40 AM »

Josiah Locke Frost led a very colorful life, born in Mass, went to California gold fields, and ended up in Wisconsin.  His middle name was very intriguing -- there must be a link through a female ancestor! 

A couple days of research and we found that his middle name was a tribute to a neighboring family rather than a relative.  Nonetheless, his is a great story, and emblematic of a more heroic age.  Find it posted by the Wisconsin Historical Society at https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Newspaper/BA2399