by Sears Homes | Dec 16, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday, this website had its 500,000th visitor. That’s pretty exciting news. Since 1999, I’ve been writing and talking about Sears Homes. In August 2010, I started “blogging regularly” at this site. And then in June 2011, a new topic...
by Sears Homes | Mar 8, 2012 | Uncategorized |
My great aunt Addie has a lot of friends in Wisconsin. Even though Addie has been dead 111 years, she’s still a popular girl and Addie has more than 450 friends on Facebook. At this website, my blogs on Addie have been viewed by more than 40,000 people. And...
by Sears Homes | Mar 8, 2012 | Uncategorized |
As of last month, more than 260,000 people have visited this website. As a result, more and more folks are sending me beautiful pictures of the Sears Homes in their neighborhood, and one of those people is Catarina Bannier, a Realtor in the DC area. (Visit her website...
by Sears Homes | Feb 25, 2012 | Uncategorized |
On Friday, I posted a detailed blog about Addie’s deep roots in the Lake Mills community. Addie Hoyt (1872-1901) was the granddaughter of Kimball Hoyt and his wife, Sally Sanborn Hoyt. The Hoyts first came to Jefferson County in 1843. When Sally Sanborn Hoyt...
by Sears Homes | Feb 23, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Thursday evening, after some diligent searching, I found the obituary for Julia Hawley Hoyt, Addie’s mother. The microfilm was so badly faded that the text was barely legible, but I did find it. As I expected, Julia Hawley Hoyt never made it back to Lake Mills...
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