My great uncle, Charles David (Charlie) Suggs, born 23 April 1883 in Graves County Kentucky, died 27 May 1968 New Boston, Michigan. Appears to be about 20 years old. Son of John Hartford Sugg and Louisa Ann Ford Sugg.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
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...
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, ...
From Karl Benz in 1885 to Elon Musk's Tesla, cars have always been a passion for some. See the evolution of car technology and the types of cars that caught our fancy in the past.
In the 1880's, in an effort to invent an automobile that could be used every day - rather than just a fire pumper or a locomotive for special use - inventors tried steam, gasoline, or electricity as a...
I am doing family research on the names listed. I have a lot of info given to me by others on the internet, almost 20,000 names as of August, 2008. My worst "brick walls" are John S. "Jack" Ray of Hickman County Ky, The Arnolds of same county, Sampsons of Henry County Tenn. All these are from the early to mid 1800s. Any help out there?