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Family lore claimed his ancestor was murdered in Mississippi. Newspapers and court records said the man and four other victims were killed and incinerated in his remote country store. But the case was never solved. Now, after 30 years of investigating, the great great grandson of the slain carpetbagger reveals what really happened. This is a case study for how to build historical context around an ancestral event. Depicting graphically how family history and history converge. C0000HB - $18.00… (altro)
After hearing a story from his grandmother about an ancestor who was murdered in Mississippi, the author spent decades researching the facts behind his great-great-grandfather Joseph Ring’s death in a Delta warehouse fire. Bodies of four of the five inhabitants of the warehouse that fateful night were recovered from the charred ruin. Only a few bones remained of Joseph Ring. While family history is the book’s primary purpose, the social, political, and geographical context is detailed and documented well enough to be useful to anyone interested in the local history of Vicksburg and the Delta region in the Reconstruction era. These are not my ancestors and I have no connection to the Delta, but I came to care about Joseph, his widow Barbara, and his brother George. ( )
The book tells a good story. The narrative could have used a good editing. The 2nd part of the book, which gives how to articles, is very helpful for those who wish to write family history in an engaging way. ( )
Well written, this book offers a great insight into how to use genealogy to tie history and mystery into a compelling story. Colletta did a wonderful job of using a variety of sources to bring his family's oral history/lore to life. I picked up several ideas for how to flesh out sections of my own family's history. ( )
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"On the 14th a new examination was made, and the bricks and ashes removed, when the remains of Joseph Ring were found, although horribly burnt and only a few no bones left." Noah B. Parker, J.P. "Vicksburg Daily Times" March 19, 1873, Page 3
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To the memory of my grandmother, Frances Josephine Noeth Ring (1891-1978) Bright and busy by nature, and by vomit good and kind, like a dependable kitchen garden, summer after summer, she gave, yet her bounty was never exhausted, and everyone who chanced upon her steady paths remembers still, and fondly, and oh so thankfully, yet another of her many humble wonders.
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I can see it now, the Ring & Co. store, blazing like a funeral pyre in the swampy desolation of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
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Yet I can see it, as though I were standing there, right in front of the monstrous funeral pyre, amid the fierce heat and smoke and roar, blackness all around and drizzle dribbling down the back of my neck. I can see it still.
Family lore claimed his ancestor was murdered in Mississippi. Newspapers and court records said the man and four other victims were killed and incinerated in his remote country store. But the case was never solved. Now, after 30 years of investigating, the great great grandson of the slain carpetbagger reveals what really happened. This is a case study for how to build historical context around an ancestral event. Depicting graphically how family history and history converge. C0000HB - $18.00
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