A curse on Jeff Davis written on the wall of the Frederick County Courthouse:
"To Jeff Davis
may he be set afloat on a
boat without compass or rudder
then that any concerns be swallowed
by a shark the shark by a whale
whale in the devils belly…
A five-bay Federal style "I" house built c1795. "The Federals had carved graffiti on the walls including the names and units of at least twenty-five soldiers, and that of a nurse, Mary Poughkeepsie of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. One eight-foot-long…
Horace held the rank of Private when he died of bowel inflammation due to colic and has no surviving minor child. Horace and Maria were married in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Owen Austin and M.H. Sullivan are witnesses and Arvin Rice is Maria's attorney.
Maria lived with Horace in Minnesota until his death in 1884, then continued her residence there and in Wisconsin until 1890. In 1891, she moved to Missouri, and now the only proof of her continuous widowhood comes from two residents of St. Joseph,…