This couple settled in Johnson County, TN. where they raised my great grandmother, Mary Augustus Freemon. She was about two when they got her and she was born in 1862, so there is no telling how old this picture is.
People in photo include: Thomas Potter and Lydia Ann Osborne Potter
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
I am searching for these surnames in NC, VA and TN; Smith, Curd, Osborne, Freeman, Dyer, Mitchell, Swanger, Sorrels, Fulbright, Graybeal, Brooks, Boring, Baker, Lingerfelt, Ruff and Branch. If you have these surnames in your database, I would love to hear from you.
Thanks,
Nancy S. Baker