I love local history beginning with the Native Americans and before the Black Hawk War in the summer of 1832, through the Civil War, the Rock Island Arsenal and river navigation.
I'm a novice taphophile: cemeteries, grave markers, burial customs, etc.
My Bawden family came from Redruth, Cornwall, England, as miners and... more...
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