Frances Cabell Coursen Perritt recorded her family history by scrapbooking artifacts, photos and clippings
Frances Cabell Coursen Perritt recorded the live of herself and her family by scrapbooking artifacts, photos, and clippings. Many of her ancestors came to Oregon before it was a state
Cabell Family
The Abstract
A Document With Personality About the Worms When I first read the abstract, the image of a fisherman’s can of worms popped into my mind. I had fished for details about my husband’s Coursen abodes before, but not in this rich and complicated source. Much of the information in this format confused me. I felt…
John Cabell and the Census
As the son of a Virginian plantation owner with the American Civil War approaching, John B. Cabell grew up with privilege and tension. The plantation, Green Hill, sat on a high grassy hill overlooking the James River. The county where they lived, Buckingham, was in the very center of Virginia. Their plantation came with 750…
Daniel Ferguson-Last Project
I have written before about Daniel Howes Ferguson and his family. One post about a steamboat disaster on the Willamette River in Oregon, I called Too Much Fire in the Box. Before this Daniel joined the California Gold Rush in 1849. I wrote about this in a post called Traveling by Mailboat. Here are some…
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