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DeansCornerNews

  1. New and improved navigation links added to DeansCorner.net...
  2. View some stereo photos of the 2009 Groseclose Family Reunion at VirginiaLens.com. Also stereo photos of selected VA historical sites.
  3. DeansCorner updated to include the registration form for the June 2012 Groseclose Family Reunion in Pipestem, WV. Plan to attend!
  4. 1976 Latah County Oral History Project included interviews with Ed & Dixie Groseclose, & Maeci Groseclose Nye. Contact DeansCorner for info.
  5. Recd from FDR Library, copy of Rev AL Groseclose letter to FDR Oct 1935. A reply to FDR's letters to clergy, asking advice abt the New Deal.
  6. DeansCorner.net updated to include in bibliography Gen Jubal Early's account of the last year of the Civil War. Some interesting reading..
  7. Gen Jubal Early memoir: Wharton Div sustained heavy loss @3rd Winchester bc of Gen's sudden chg in orders durin battle, leaving Div exposed.
  8. Civil War timeline updated to correctly identify the state locations of 36th & 51st VA Inf engagements. Many/most were in WV.
  9. Links to US & VA Historical Markers added to DeansCorner. Read what those Civil War and other history markers say along US & VA highways...
  10. Timeline of 36th & 51st VA Inf engagements w/Civil War chronology posted. Features enlistment, capture & release dates of 3 Grossclose bros.
  11. A son & 2 daughters of Phil Thos Shrewsbury married Penningtons. Were Penningtons close cousins of one another, if not also the S-burys?
  12. WV Phillip Thos Shrewsbury Family was divided in N-S sympathies during CW. One son died a Union soldier, another died a Confederate soldier.
  13. Updated Shrewsbury Family Records of Births, Marriages & Deaths, 1800-1924, on DeansCorner.net. Records were left by Charles T. Shrewsbury.
  14. Useful links added to DeansCorner.net, to assist finding grave sites and to ask help finding obituaries.
  15. Further details about Emery (not Emerson?) Groseclose added to DeansCorner.net, including info about his Civil War service at age 14!
  16. Minor refinements & updates to DeansCorner.net, mainly to better distinguish 3 allied Groseclose families vs. other PNW Groseclose families.
  17. DeansCorner.net updated to include info abt Emerson Hartwell Groseclose. He settled with his four children in Walla Walla, WA, in abt 1890.
  18. DeansCorner.net updated to include links to VA Center for Civil War Studies and Juliaetta-Kendrick Heritage Foundation.
  19. Updated http://j.mp/eu2iZK to include photo of new roadside sign in Spanishburg, WV marking the burial site of Jeremiah Solesbury.
  20. Added a cute story about "God's Country."