Herbert Norman Marrs was nicknamed Chaney because of his love for Lon Chaney horror movies.
Chaney was the son of Wiley Brooks and Maudie Elsie (nee Golden) Marrs. He was born 12 Nov 1914 in Valier, Franklin Co., Illinois. He marreid Ivy May Carr in Waterloo, Monroe Co., Illinois on 28 Sep 1934.
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...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
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 ...
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.