Duchess SW Domain

One of our southern Oklahoma readers jokingly asked at 4:50 a.m. this Monday morning, "Where is my newspaper?"

Well! LOL … Our reply was at that ungodly hour of the morn, "It has not been thrown yet!"

We are enjoying this beautiful Fall mountain weather here in the SW Rockies of Colorado before the real cold snow head this way.

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Singer Treadle Machines

From last weeks newsletter Floyd mentions and asks, "Hey, Linda, just how did you like using this machine? I have a Singer model. Though, I did look it up in the past, that is a 1909 version of the machine. I bought this some 20+ years ago and refinished the cabinet. I have the instruction booklet along with all the attachments with the exception of one screw driver, largest one of the three.

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MORE … History of Highland County Virginia

Biographic paragraphs taken from the book, A History of Highland County Virginia, Chapter XXIII, page 223, gives us some insight into the families and particular mention of the Highland Men of more or less prominence.

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Rockbridge County Virginia & Davy Crockett

In the book about Rockbridge County, Virginia we found this interesting story about Davy Crockett. You do remember Davy Crockett, don't you?

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Nickel/McClure Mansion Restoration

We have heard from the main source that the Nickel/McClure mansion has found a buyer that is interested in restoring it back to it's pre-1960 grandeur of the Old Nickel Mansion on the Hill, in Alva, Oklahoma. Does anyone out there have old photos of the house, Nickel family, etc… that could help Mark Bellah restore his antique of his childhood dreams?

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Treadling Tip On A Singer

Nola Wilkerson says, "The way I learned to treadle … at home and at school … was to put one foot (toe part) toward top of treadle on one side, the other foot toward the bottom, then push with first one foot, then the other. Like stepping with the toe part of your foot: left/right,left/right.

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Classification of Highland County Virginia Families

A complete history of a group-family should cover the following items: the name of the pioneer, the full maiden name of the wife, the national derivation of both man and wife, the place that the couple moved from, the names of their descendants in like manner, generation by generation, including the persons marrying into the family; also dates of birth, marriage, and death, and facts as to residence, occupation, civil and military service, and other matters of interest.

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George Nickel Family Restoration Continues

Is this photo on the left part of the Nickels family? Notice at the top of the photo lightly, faded and scrawled in pencil is the name "Simple Nickols." Did someone just misspell the name "Nickels?"Could "Simple" be the "S" in Lena's name? Was my grandmother (Constance Warwick McGill) friends of this "Simple Nickols?" Why was this photo amongst my grandmother's old photos? Lots of unanswered questions to unravel! Can you help us?

Here is what Mark Bellah (Email: markebel@swbell.net) says, "The picture of Simple Nickols that you sent is very interesting in that if you look closely the O in nickols almost looks like an E that almost closed.

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Dust Bowl Book

There is another "Dust Bowl" news article out of the New York Times that one of our readers shared with us. It is Blowin' In the Wind, by JESSICA BRUDER -- about two young adult histories and a graphic novel about the worst ecological disaster in American history.

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Highland County Virginia Pioneers

The following outline sketch of PIONEER and SUB-PIONEER families came from the book, "A History of Highland County Virginia." I have marked two main paternal ancestors of my family lineage below with double-asterisks (**). Actually, I have run across most of the surnames below spread throughout my paternal family tree.

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