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Zero Deaths

Can't say death toll was something I considered when selecting my university.

1890s Greenville City Directory

Painless Opium Cure

Makes you wonder what was in the cure if they eliminated alcohol and drugs...

1890s Greenville City Directory

Kilby Cabin

I don't typically share personal history here, but this was a photograph I had no idea existed. Most of my ancestors were Appalachian folk who didn't leave much of a paper trail, much less photographs behind. This cabin was built by John Kilby in Culpepper Virginia about 1749. John Kilby is the Kilby "brickwall" genealogists (including myself) have been searching for over 30 years for any indication of his origin or even his parents' names. DNA tests conducted only tell us the terribly broad "British Isles." Wherever he came from, here are his family's humble beginnings in America. 

(LeGrange was the name of more recent residents)

How to Label Poison

January 1945 - The Slater News

"I went for pajamas in the second or third years of my married life, but I cut it out when my husband turned bookworm."

Greenville News - 1950-Sept-11

Corsets not just for women

Greenville News - 1948 Oct 6