Phyllis Jean Branson, b. 19 August 1944, Rico, Colorado. Phyllis was born 3 months premature, at home, weighing a mere 2 pounds. Allie Baer, the mining company nurse lived across the street from us; would come 4 times a day & rub Phyllis in Olive Oil, wrap her in a cloth diaper & place her in a shoe box. Her incubator was the open oven door of the coal stove that mother, Mavis (Gaddis) Branson cooked on. The Lord loaned this precious daughter/sister to us for almost 20 years. Phyllis died 20 March 1963, Durango, Colorado.
My mom was told a story like this. But it was her that was born premature weighing a couple pounds at birth. She was put in a inkabater. That it ruined her eyes. So she had to wear thick glasses all her life. My mom was adopted. Where ? We don't know.
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...
Coming out of the Great Depression, the world faced another challenge in the 1940's: World War II. Although the war began in the 1930's, it expanded and gained in ferocity (and atrocities) in the 194...
Did you know medics, doctors and nurses used to prescribe narcotics as treatment?
Radium water, cough syrup made of alcohol, marijuana, and morphine, cocaine toothache drops for children, snake oil - medicine has changed quite a bit in the past 100 years or so, as has the way that ...
Photos of the harsh living and working conditions of miners and prospectors and of the men who endured this life.
The lives of miners and prospectors involved grueling, backbreaking, and dangerous work with long hours and low pay. Especially in coal mining: workers and their families lived in company housing, sh...
My mother is Pamela Thompson. My dad is Richard William Russell. My mom grew up in Fenwick Michigan. My dad grew up in Hart Michigan. They had 2 kids together. Living in Michigan. I have other Half siblings out there somewhere