“No chance for a poor man in this country,” a phrase Clinton Orcutt chose to ignore. A strapping young farmer’s son, he took it into his head, as boys sometimes do, “that the world presents numerous opportunities for accumulating fortune … Continue reading
My 2x great-grandfather, Clinton Delos Orcutt, and his two youngest daughters, Anna Ri (age 19) and Jane Clare (age 16), traveled to Europe in the summer of 1901, accompanied by their family friend Martha Blackwell. Their photograph album is now … Continue reading
The engagement and wedding of Marion Edith Orcutt and Alfred James Beaton, 1899, Omaha, Nebraska. Continue reading
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Growing up during the Gilded Age, the Orcutt sisters, Edith, Anna Ri, and Jane, filled their calendars with ladies-of-leisure activities. Fortunately for my research, the Orcutts figured prominently in the Omaha newspaper society columns, as did their peers. The society … Continue reading
HYDE HEIRLOOMS – TWO CENTURIES- TWO SILVER SPOONS Heirlooms are tangible evidence of an ancestor’s existence. It is something you can grasp and picture them using. For nearly 200 years, the descendants of Joshua and Sally Hyde preserved two silver … Continue reading
Is there an artist in your family, either professional or amateur? If your ancestor left only one artwork, what impressions might you attribute to the artist? In my earlier post, I wrote about the Orcutt family portraits of Clinton, Anna, … Continue reading
Walk into many antique stores, and you find photographs and portraits lost or discarded by families. Who were these people? How did their images end up in an antique store or even a Cracker Barrel restaurant? Did no one in … Continue reading
TALES OF A TRAVELING STEAMER TRUNK If your family heirloom could talk, what stories would it tell? The steamer travel trunk I inherited has 120 years of travel tales to share. My 2x great-grandparents, Clinton Delos Orcutt and Anna Dorcas … Continue reading
THOMAS A. NICHOLS – MASONIC MEDAL The NICHOLS family has just one other heirloom besides the Latin Bible noted in the preceding blog. It’s a Masonic Medal awarded to Thomas A. NICHOLS in 1882 by the Pennsylvania, Anthracite Lodge F&AM … Continue reading
FAMILY HEIRLOOMS Thanks to the prompting of a fellow Genealogy Blogger, Jeanne Bryan Insalaco of Everyone Has a Story, a blogging theme for November is to write about our family heirlooms and share their origins and stories. Those of us … Continue reading
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