Karen Zach

By: Karen Zach Last week, I introduced you to Charles Monroe Travis, Michael Daugherty White, Samuel Campbell Willson and Thomas Fleming Davidson who were partners or trained-up with Lew Wallace.…

By: Karen Zach My idea for a column this week could actually probably be quite the interesting book, but I’ll give ya’ the condensed version of some (most) of the…

By: Karen Zach Have any common names in your family tree? Barker? Coleman? Helms? Morgan? Myers? Smith? Those are some of my own more common names but when I told…

By: Karen Zach As promised, this week you will meet the other of the first two rural mail carriers in Montgomery County (Crawfordsville’s first two). So, this week here’s Frank…

By: Karen Zach I love firsts and today’s article is in regards to one of the two hired first mail carriers in Montgomery County. My plan, anyway, is for you…

By: Karen Zach Often, I find a subject for an article in a most unusual way as with Napoleon Bonaparte Reynolds. I am on a neat Facebook page (Military History…

By: Karen Zach Written about Davis, Myers, Smith, and Jones families so I decided to check-out a more unusual name and made a “quick” jump to an interesting man with…

By: Karen Zach I “met” this fellow when I was researching for the March Montgomery Memories as he was an inventor of sorts. Thus, since I didn’t use him for…

By: Karen Zach Always fascinated with newspapermen, I ran into this one the other day and thought, “He would be great to share with my readers.” Hope you enjoy! Meet…

By: Karen Zach While researching for the September Montgomery Memories, I found 5-6 men who were interesting but didn’t quite fit into one of our topics, thus I decided my…