Twigs from the King Family Tree
Twigs from the King Family Tree

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Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Consists of seven individual parts, each with its own title page, indexing and pagination, bound together with an overall title page and introduction by the compiler.

Mackall Blackmore Asdell Family
Mackall Blackmore Asdell Family

Author: Mark Lester

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-06-08

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1387806149

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This book contains the history and timeline of three families. Starting with James Mackall who immigrated from Scotland in 1655 arriving in Maryland following the Mackall history to Matilda Mackall who married Samuel Blackmore in East Liverpool, Ohio. Samuel Blackmore family history is traced back to London, England. Sam & Matilda Blackmore had a daughter, Cora, marry Joe Kern. Joe & Cora had a daughter marry Joseph Leland Asdell. The Asdell family history is recorded beginning with their departure from Antrim County, Ireland. Included is journal kept by Benoni Blackmore, brother of Sam Blackmore, detailing his time spent in gold and silver fields of California, Nevada, and Oregon in 1862. Additionaly are included family stories and antedotes.

The Hanging of Hiram the Hoss
The Hanging of Hiram the Hoss

Author: Georgia Lucas

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2008-10-23

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1467863327

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Hiram and Rachel, a nave young couple, married at sixteen and now with four kids, see their world ending as Hiram is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The way they handle the situation is uniquely their own. Yet their lives twist and turn as they are caught up in legal entanglements, enmeshed with polished lawyers engrossed in furthering their own careers and a sheriff torn between his official duty and his familial ties to the accused. The book is a work of fiction based on actual events of the middle 1800s, a time when small towns in newly formed states were athirst for broader recognition. One way to achieve that recognition was to have a legal public hanging. The executions were celebrated as huge social events as well as demonstrations of law and order and the triumph of good over evil. The setting is a quiet, little Indiana town which finally got its chance to have a legal hanging. The event was advertised far and wide. And hordes of people came to witness the execution. Hordes of people came twice to witness the hanging of one man a young man now known as Hiram the Hoss.