On This Day - August 28th

On This Day...

1814 - Christen: Elizabeth Bourn,

1824 - Birth: Leroy James Lawrence Dark, Meriwether County, Georgia

1833 - Marriage: Bryant Cole Byrd and Mary Straughan, Crawford County, Indiana

1855 - Birth: William Marion Crain, Columbia County, Arkansas

1879 - Birth: Emma Johanna Karnitz, Minnesota

1889 - Birth: Jennie Pitcher,

1912 - Birth: Clifford Bennett Omdahl, Skagen Township, Roseau County, Minnesota

1922 - Birth: Marcellus Theisen, Minnesota

1928 - Marriage: Omar Holt Williams and Emma Gertrude McMurry, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

 
1928 - My maternal grandparents were married.  I never met my grandmother, as she died in 1950, but I did meet my grandfather on one of my few trips down to Louisiana. 


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