Here’s another fantastic find whilst conducting the every-other-month database sweep: Great details in this article — first, based on some other clips that I’ve found around this date, Walter was working and politically active up until the end, so there may not have been any clue anything was amiss. (I’m […]
New-to-me via my monthly check-in with various databases: Verbatim text taken from the Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL), date March 3, 1943: “Death Takes Mrs. Wilson at Mulberry “Friends in Jacksonville and other parts of the State will regret to learn of the death of Mrs. Carrie Bond Wilson, widow of […]
Here’s something that finally answered one of my big Emmett Wilson puzzles over the past five years of research: Check this out: The line drawing (above) is a screen shot of the duplex 211 West Cervantes, as it appeared in 1907. Note that this one structure had TWO numbers (211 […]
I’ve been spending the last few days of 2017 checking in with old databases and past sources, to tie up any loose ends, or to check on any updates. Surprise! A ‘new-to-me’ publication found on Google Books, The Train Dispatcher (1950, Vols 32-33, p. 674), has a retirement article on Emmett’s […]
The essay on the Wilson-Myers House was published in Wanderlust Journal, for December 15, 2017! A great way to end the year!
Good news and sad news in Emmett Wilson research this week. First, the good news: I received a beautiful invitation from my dear distant cousin, Carol: In exactly one week, Emmett’s niece Jule will celebrate her 100th birthday! Alas, I cannot travel to join in the festivities, but I do […]
While conducting a periodic check-back on old databases, I found an updated obituary for Emmett’s oldest sibling, Augustus Maxwell Wilson, who was called “Max.” The text from another obituary (from the Palatka, Florida Times-Herald for January 30, 1925) stated he had lived (past tense) in East Palatka, Florida, but at the […]
When I’m not writing or conducting research for Emmett’s book, I’m sewing. Sewing is like writing, in that it is creating something unique out of fluid, occasionally hard-to-manipulate content. Sewing is not just about manipulating fabric and thread, but it is a hands-on exercise in creative problem solving using pre-determined […]
A prayer for all of us, just for today. Happy Thanksgiving!
Today, I visited Boligee, Alabama, population 328, in search of Mt. Hebron Cemetery, in a quest to locate Emmett’s grandparents, Cephas Love Wilson Sr. and Emily B. Wilson. Using the information posted on Find-A-Grave, and typing the address into Waze, I set out with my husband on Interstate 20/59 West, […]
Tell my story. 