INDEX of American Legacies Events and Functions
Click HERE to see the entire list IF you are on the HOME page.
If you are looking for information on a particular family, geographical location or topic, we suggest that you use our search feature.
Fannie L. Prothro: A Glance At The Past
A short distance from our house there was a creek, fed by a spring up on a hill with a waterfall that was about five feet high. This was where Mama washed our clothes in a zinc tub. Papa went along to carry the bundle and make a fire under the black iron wash pot. Mama put the clothes on a big wooden block and paddled them. She boiled them and rinsed them in three tubs then carried them home and dried them on a clothes line.
Our social life was built around the church. They had singing conventions. I remember Papa and Mama would always go. A teacher came to teach singing and we always attended. Mama sang alto and I loved to hear Papa sing. I think these meetings were in the summer when the crops were laid by. They had books with shaped notes (now the notes are round). They would have dinner on the ground and preaching once each month.
We lived ten miles from Groveton, the county seat of Trinity County. The road was graded and the men who lived in the district worked the road. They used oxen to pull heavy logs over it to make it level.
- Read more about Fannie L. Prothro: A Glance At The Past
- Log in to post comments
Legacy of Gilbert Weaver
Interview with Gilbert Weaver
Franklin Wike:
Gilbert, we're going to start on your legacy aspect. I want to start talking about your father.
I would like to know his full name and if you know the date and location of the town where he was born.
Gilbert Weaver:
As far as I know, my dad was born in 1912, February the 12th of I think 1912 and he was born in Daviess County Kentucky.
- Read more about Legacy of Gilbert Weaver
- Log in to post comments
Jay Allen Doyle Legacy
Interview with Jay Allen Doyle 3-19-25
Q: Where were you born?
A: I was born right here in Spencer County. So was my sisters and my dad. Dad’s full legal name was Jay Oscar Doyle. His nickname was Pat. My mother was Edith. My grandpa built this place.
- Read more about Jay Allen Doyle Legacy
- Log in to post comments
A HISTORY OF TROY INDIANA
Stephen Saalman
- Read more about A HISTORY OF TROY INDIANA
- Log in to post comments
Rare Collection of Old Photographs, including some Tin-Types
We have purchased a large number of old photographs that came from a barn in Kentucky.
We have not discovered any definite links to the origin or family these images may belong to YET, so we will be posting them on our website, in order to see if anyone else can assist in recognizing these individuals.
99 Year Old Viola Masterson at Christmas Dinner 2024
In 2024, American Legacies Org, started a new tradition.
Christmas is the biggest holiday of the year where people are supposed to share the day with family.
Christmas Memories from Pennsylvania
Linnea Travis Miller
from Pennsylvania
I believe my favorite Christmas toy was the plastic accordion I received when I was about six or seven years old. My cousin Tut, who was 5 years older than I was, had always had his accordion with him when the family came down from New Hampshire for our old fashioned Swedish Christmas at Grammy and Grampy's house in Connecticut.
- Read more about Christmas Memories from Pennsylvania
- Log in to post comments
Wartime Memories Civil War
By Kenneth Hill
- Read more about Wartime Memories Civil War
- Log in to post comments