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Trying to piece together the young life of my great grandmother, Minnie Florian Wise

By Mark | January 7, 2020

The woman to the right is my great grandmother. Her name was Minnie Florence Wise, and she was born on December 9, 1892, in Montgomery County, Kentucky, which is about 30 miles east of Lexington, where, if I’m not mistaken, her grandfather, John Anderson Wise (1823-1893), fought on the side of the Union during the […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 1889, 1892, 1900, 1912, 1950, Arlo, barefoot, census, Charles Maynard, Civil War, coal, Confederate States, Curt Florian, Curtis Florian, depression glass, Florian, flour sack dresses, Franklin, Franklin County, genealogy, Georgetown, Goin' Up Cripple Creek, Grover Cleveland Wise, Jefferson Davis Wise, John Anderson Wise, John Calhoun Wise, Joseph Phillip Florian, Kentucky, Louvina J. Tipton, Ma Florian, Mark's ancestors, Mark's aunt Betsy, marriage license, Matilda Gill, Matilda Gill Wise, Mayfair Open Rose, Minnie Florence Wise, Minorsville, Mollie Onan, Monterey, Mt. Sterling, National Archives, Rebecca Clark, root cellar, Scott County, secession, Seth Reese Wise, Stamping Ground, Switzer, union, West Virginia, White Sulpher, Wise, Woodlake | 15 Comments

Rewriting history in Texas

By Mark | March 14, 2010

Remember how I told you that Republicans in Texas were attempting to make a few “minor” changes to their state’s K-12 history textbooks, like removing any mention of that little “separation of church and state” thing? Well, it looks like they’ve made some tremendous headway in the last few days. Since we last discussed it, […]

Posted in Church and State, Education, History, Politics | Also tagged a wall of separation between Church & State, Alamo, asshole Republicans of Texas, asshole Republicans of Texas who are rewriting American history books, Bruce Maiman, Christian nation, founding fathers, Joe McCarthy, John Calvin, Mary Helen Berlanga, Orwellian, removal of the word democratic, rewriting history, social studies, St. Thomas Aquinas, Tejanos, Texas, Texas Education Board, Texas Freedom Network, textbooks, Thomas Jefferson | 13 Comments

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