Would you believe this is the only AND pitiful photograph that I have of Erv. He and Effie Jane Cavinder had six children...so one of his decendants just has to get in touch with me!
Dock Erving Marrs, the son of Dockery Jordon Marrs, was born 2 Jul 1886 in Webster Co., Kentucky. He died Jan 1953 in Gary, Indiana.
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 Eisenhower Years - A Time of Optimism and Growth
After the Great Depression and World War II, everyone was ready to take a breath and have fun. Population boomed, families moved to the suburbs, television (by the end of the decade) would be in most...
Photos of all kinds of ships used in war, commerce, and pleasure, and the men and women who sail on them.
Ocean liners, submarines, destroyers, aircraft carriers, battle ships - and yachts, oh my! Water transportation has been, and continues to be, a vital part of our economies and history.
Ships transp...
Old photos of different types of transportation - trains, planes, automobiles, and more - as well as the people who piloted them.
Of air, water, and land, only flying through the air had eluded humans for millennia. Wheels on carts as well as river boats are known to have been used since 3500 B.C. But since that time - especiall...
Researching paternal Cross, Sherman, Hill, Lewis and maternal Golden, Marrs families. Have blocks at Charles Cross (Franklin Co., Illinois), Abel Sherman (Rhode Island), John R. Golden (Pennsylvania), and Aseneth Smallwood married to William Hill.