Sometimes it can be tedious going through all the newspaper references for a relative. There are times when it can be worth the effort. I don’t really know too much about Sophia (Dirks) Driesbach, my great-grandmother’s aunt. Sophia and her husband had no children and she died in her mid-forties in Coatsburg, Adams County, Illinois, […]

Sometimes ministers have a way of laying things on the line and sometimes they are just a little too blunt. But the details always help to paint a picture, even if one has to imagine that picture with some grains of salt spread over it. This 1914 entry from the funeral portion of the church […]