Emma T Brown Duke was the mother of 6 children not 7 children. Joseph B Duke was counted twice as it said"They gave birth to Joseph B Duke" and he had already been listed with his siblings. Sweet Baby Girl is what I called the baby born & died sometime that day before her mother passed away. The older boys had to dig a grave for the baby & found out they needed to keep digging as their mother had also passed away.
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...