James Mulkey Marrs born 9 Sep 1877 in Webster Co., Kentucky. Died 29 Nov 1957 in Miners' Hospital, Christopher, Franklin Co., Illinois and is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Valier, Franklin Co., Illinois.
His parents were Dockery Jordon and Cynthia Barthena McClaire (nee Price) Marrs.
Married at bride's Residence near Dixon, Webster Co., Kentucky on 30 Sep 1900 to Tabatha Ollie Cavinder.
Tab was born in Kentucky on 25 Jul 1881. She passed away in Illinois on 2 Sep 1963, and is burried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Valier, Franklin Co., Illinois.
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, ...
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...
Did you know medics, doctors and nurses used to prescribe narcotics as treatment?
Radium water, cough syrup made of alcohol, marijuana, and morphine, cocaine toothache drops for children, snake oil - medicine has changed quite a bit in the past 100 years or so, as has the way that ...
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.