Karen Zach
Oh That Common Name: Thomas
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…
Read MoreFrank Clements RR #1 – Our First
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…
Read MoreMeet One Of Our City’s First Rural Carriers
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…
Read MoreAll About “Bony” Reynolds
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…
Read MoreKaren Has A Quick Adventure
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…
Read MoreMan With Many Names Would Be So Surprising
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…
Read MoreAll About Byron Price
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…
Read MoreMilton Byron Waugh
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…
Read MoreAll About The Gobens
By: Karen Zach The Goben family in Montgomery County began in 1829 when Jesse J. Goben entered land in Walnut Township. For a couple of years in his native Kentucky…
Read MoreThe Poor House Millionaire
Those of you who follow my writing will know for sure that I love the Poor House folks. I have tallied the ones (with some help from buddy Kim Hancock…
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