Karen Zach
Meet another of Karen’s fav subjects: a good doctor
Some of my readers may have noticed that writing about doctors is one of my favorite topics; thus today, you’ll read about a new one I’m fairly sure I’ve not…
Read MoreKaren Gives Rave Review to Joy’s Book
By: Karen Zach Bit of a twist on my column this week. Hope you enjoy! Well, as my readers probably figured, I read mainly nonfiction; however, I do love to…
Read MoreAround The County With Jennison
By: Karen Zach Albert Cunning Jennison it seems was much like his father. Both saw the need for something and proceeded to git ‘r ’dun! Jennison was born 17 August…
Read MoreJoseph Belton Never Returned Home Alive
By: Karen Zach Recently, I was honored to write one of my Around The County articles about James Cameron Fullenwider who died from wounds received in the Battle of Thompson…
Read MoreAround The County With The Saidlas
By: Karen Zach Not particularly a one-person article today, but more an overview of an interesting early Darlington area family. This family’s story begins with Johanna Adam Saidle who was…
Read MoreAround The County With Samuel Smiley Martin
By: Karen Zach Samuel Smiley and Sarah Jane Martin were married October 8, 1857 and had three sons and three daughters, their son Bertram who was an excellent local photographer…
Read MoreAbout James Cameron Fullenwider
By: Karen Zach James Cameron was the eighth child of Eleazer and Lavina (Allen) Fullenwider’s eleven children. He was a graduate of the Waveland Academy and was attending Wabash with…
Read MoreClara: Local Long-Time 5th Grade Teacher
By: Karen Zach This week, I found a wow photo of an outstanding-looking young Montgomery County woman named Clara Florence Brockman, so decided I’d research her to discover her happenings.…
Read MoreJonathon Rice, Profile 20!
By: Karen Zach Twenty – get that? Now, I’ve written about the Fruits and Vancleaves with many children each, the Deeres doing the same and other families with a dozen…
Read MoreOne Hard Working Local Deere
By: Karen Zach The Deere family of the Shades area of Montgomery County was one of the largest and biggest business oriented groups in our early days. I want to…
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