Tag: Saline Co. Arkansas

Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (8)

April 7, 2018

I’m floundering a bit as I try to draw to a close this series of postings about Pat and Delilah Rinehart Ryan and their pension applications for Pat’s Civil War service and injuries. The problem is that the deeper I reach into the treasure trove of information this file contains, the more connections I’m spotting … More Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (8)

Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (5)

March 23, 2018

I’d like to begin winding down my series of postings about the Civil War pension files of Patrick Ryan and his wife Delilah Rinehart Ryan of Grant County, Arkansas, by tying up some loose ends I’ve left dangling in my four previous postings about these genealogically rich documents. As I do so, I’m fully aware … More Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (5)

Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (3)

March 17, 2018

And now to that missing eye: though I have not spelled this out, it has probably become obvious to you if you’ve read the first two installments in this series that it is, in part, an extended essay about the importance of family stories in genealogical research. It’s a foray into understanding how family stories … More Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (3)