My father (deceased) William Arnell Pridgen, who was born in Maysville, NC, on November 11, 1910. He worked for the Sun Oil Company as a Master Mariner and sailed to such places as Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. He died April 7, 1986, in Springfield, PA. He loved the water and was a Scorpio. He is sorely missed!
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 ...
Old photos of workers and businesses from past decades
While we don't know what the first business transaction was, it is easy to imagine that thousands of years ago a good hunter bartered his excess meat for something more useful to him. In the history ...
I am researching the Smith family (of MA, CT, RI, Oneida Co., NY) and am also interested in obtaining pictures of Pridgens, Laniers, LeFever's, Brutons, Arthurs, van Aken's and Ackermans. Old pictures only 1830-1940s.