Researching Divorce Records
We talk a lot about marriage records, the different types and how to locate them. But when working on genealogy, sometimes we find the other side to marriage, divorce. Divorce records are not as plentiful as marriage records and not as easily accessible on the...
Anita Watts Kopetski | Jan 31, 2025 | 0 Comments
Home Made Remedies
Quite often something really interesting surfaces as we go about our preservation and archiving efforts. A paper turned up recently with hand-written remedies (and gardening advice), mixed with a couple of newspaper clippings from 1912. There is also a recipe for...
Letter Home From the Klondike
The archives here at the Marshall County Historical Society and Museum are full of stories of people living their daily lives, throughout our history. This article, first published in the Marshall County Independent, on February 4, 1898, on page one, shows the...
Hazel’s Dress
Money was hard to come by in 1924 when Fred and Etta Jane (Berkeypile) Brugh were raising their young family in a remodeled log cabin two blocks northwest of the Marshall County Courthouse in Plymouth. He worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, then the Plymouth Radio Company, while she cared for their four daughters. Frugality necessitated handmade then hand-me-down clothes for Myrtle, Goldie, Hazel and baby Helen.
Anita Boetsma | Jan 17, 2025 | 0 Comments
The Broadway Doesn’t Stop at Plymouth
In fall 1957 I was a first-year cadet at Culver Military Academy. Our family then lived in Hamilton, OH, where my dad was employed as director of engineering for Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, the amalgamation of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Lima Locomotive Works and other...
Anita Boetsma | Jan 17, 2025 | 0 Comments
