In a previous post, I wrote about my 2nd great-grandfather William Augustus Tolman, and DiamondFeild Jack. I laid out the story of how he came to be shot and lived to talk about it. His son William Cyrus Tolman corrected misinformation that was printed in the news. As I was browsing YouTube searching for family names, I came across a …

While researching my McBride ancestorial line in Graham County, Arizona, I came across this YouTube video done by Miss Katty’s Wild West Adventures: The Powers Family Shootout: A True Tale of Courage and Controversy. My great-grandmother Lydia June Angel married into the McBride family, so it naturally caught my attention. She first married Rolla McBride, and then, after his death, …

Grandma passed away in the summer of 1982, in Mesa, AZ. I was beginning my sophomore year in high school. She was sixty years old. Born in 1921, in the mining town of Miami, and grew up in the small town of Safford, AZ. Wait! I’m getting ahead of myself here, I need to back up to 1921 in Miami …

Charles Wesley Edmondson, my great-grandfather, the father of Ruth Marie Edmondson my paternal grandmother. There are not many stories or memories of Charles that can be found. This is my attempt to write his life history based on the bits and pieces of his life in North Carolina, Texas, and Idaho. The information has come from the backs of photos, …

Grace Millicent Major is my 2x great-grandmother. Grace is the mother of my great-grandfather Ralph Sutton Naylor whose son is Ralph Veldon Naylor my grandfather, whom I have previously written about in My Grandfather the Spy. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory on September 15, 1879. She was the daughter of William Duncomb Major and Virginia Faithful …

Abraham Brown & Harriett Amanda Sheldon are my 4th great grandparents through my maternal or Naylor side of the family tree. Abraham also went by the name Abram at times probably to distinguish himself from his father. Their lives spanned a period of time from the early 1800’s to later part’s of the 1800’s. They were both born in Vermont …

William Augustus Tolman, is my 2nd great grandfather, his son William Cyrus Tolman is my great grandfather. My grandfather Almo J Tolman would have been about 5 years old when his grandfather William died on the 25 June 1920 in Burley, Cassie, Idaho. I can just picture my grandfather sitting on his grandpa William’s knee, intently listening to him telling …