by Sears Homes | Feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorized |
When I moved into my current home in Suffolk, it was my intention to stay in this house until I breathed my last. And it did work out that way – sort of. On September 5th, 2018, I was carried out of my house and transported to a local ER when – despite the...
by Sears Homes | Jan 27, 2018 | Uncategorized |
After that last blog, Milton, Mark and David (three faithful researchers that have been with me since the start of this project) went to work to find Alleyne’s last name. This morning, I found an email from Mark Hardin, explaining that he’d found Alleyne. ...
by Sears Homes | Apr 6, 2017 | Uncategorized |
For the last few weeks, I’ve been on the hunt for a house in a quiet place with a little bit of land. I’ve been working with a true real estate professional, Tracie Gaskins, who is not only a queen among real estate agents, but an angel let down from...
by Sears Homes | Mar 6, 2016 | Uncategorized |
We found Pottstown, and it isn’t the one in Pennsylvania. About a month ago, I wrote a blog about a mystery school house mentioned in the Newport News Daily Press. The story, from December 1922 said that the school would soon be built for African-American...
by Sears Homes | Feb 15, 2016 | Uncategorized |
According to newspaper accounts, Ethel didn’t die easy. For 10 days in November 1918, she lingered in a Richmond hospital before succumbing to her injuries, caused by two bullet wounds through her left lung. In the last days of her life, between labored breaths...
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