The Generals and Their Families (originally written in 2007 for grad school) Catherine Wilson, Executive Director GCHS The text of an article from the Xenia Torchlight newspaper of 17 August
They weren’t all teachers or washerwomen or servants. There were farmers and tavern keepers and even a couple of carpenters. Some women worked outside the home during the 19th century,
[An earlier version was published in Leaves of Greene, Greene County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society newsletter, vol 23 no 5 (2002).] Xenia Herald, 10 Nov 1921 – “Xenia is without
The American Civil War (1861-1865) left many men disabled in body and mind, or dead from wounds or disease, their widows with little to no support. Before the Ohio Soldiers
Catherine (Kidd) Wilson Originally published as “The 54th and 55th Regiments of Massachusetts Infantry” [Ohio Genealogical Society Report 34, no. 3 (1994): 139-149] and “History of the 127th O.V.I./5th U.S.C.T.
Earlier version published in Ohio Genealogical Society Report 37:2 (1997) written and revised by Catherine Wilson, GCHS Sometime during the 1860s, a man named Pierre Pachoud and his wife Josephine