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...
by Sears Homes | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Ralph and Ethel were married, but not to each other. About 7:00 o’clock, standing on a sidewalk at a busy intersection in downtown Richmond, Ralph and Ethel got into an argument. Ethel had just stepped off the train, and the two started quarreling. Ralph pulled...
by Sears Homes | Aug 23, 2014 | Uncategorized |
In May 2014, we traveled to Wilmington, DE and Philadelphia, PA to do research at the Hagley Museum (Wilmington) and at the National Archives and Records Administration (Philadelphia). Along the way, we stopped at Carney’s Point, New Jersey to check out some of...
by Sears Homes | May 7, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Last month, we drove from Norfolk to Philladelphia to visit the National Archives and Records Administration. En route, we took a slight detour to Carney’s Point, NJ to check out the houses in that neighborhood. Carney’s Point, like Penniman, eventually...
by Sears Homes | Apr 20, 2014 | Uncategorized |
…combined with the advantages of a two-story house! So promised the advertising copy that accompanied the pictures in the 1914 Aladdin Homes catalog. One week ago today, hubby (Wayne) and buddy (Milton) and I were wandering around Carney’s Point, NJ,...
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