Karen Zach

One of the most interesting families in the area was the Talbot family and much has been written about Capt. Henry Harp Talbot (son of Courtney and Elizabeth Harp) but…

Several of you who follow my work, also likely know I write an OTD on the Crawfordsville and Montgomery County History Facebook page, highlighting something that happened each day in…

First one to admit this, but I sometimes avoid common names when I’m searching a subject for an article, but I’ve been avoiding this fella’ and his wife for quite…

Ahhh, those Christmases past! Do you have special ones? I sure do! Overall memories, too, like when my dad was the rural mail carrier at Waveland and we’d have the…

Tragedies followed this Montgomery Countian through life The Ball commonality seems to equal blue eyes The Ball family in MoCo has indeed been my subject before; however, this is the…

Just love this picture from the Crawfordsville District Public Library’s database and wanted to tell you today about two local families who were in the barber world, some in this…

By Karen Zach Ten families centered in Rice’s Fort near Washington County, PA (near present day Pittsburg) on Short Creek for protection from Native American Indians during uprisings. It was…

By Karen Zach An interesting, but far too short of a life was that of John Clark Maxwell’s.  His desire was to serve his country and that he did in…