Doris and Dorothy BURRIS - identical twin daughters of James Reno and Eliza Jane, born 03 September 1905, children #10 and #11, Doris died 14 November 1936, Dorothy 10 June 1930, both in Jackson County TN where they were born and lived. This family, 1st cousins and neighbors to my mother, tragically lost their youngest 6 children in untimely ways in a period of just a few years!
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 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...