Before I Forget

My Wiser family once lived in Liberty County, Texas. The Liberty Vindicator newspaper has been digitized and made available online. 

This took only a couple of mugs of coffee to locate in the search engine. Plenty of cousins named: Weiser, Wiser, Barrow, Abshier, Harmon, Faulk, Reavis, Bond and Carr. 

Next time you take the back roads, stop and pick up a local paper in a small town.

The same type of news is printed today. 

Our Wiser family alive in 1906 and living in Liberty or Chambers County Texas might have read this in the local newspaper. 

The "boys of '61."  Now there's a phrase I've not heard before. Was it a common refrain?

UPDATE:  YES, apparently it was! I just googled it. The free book site, Gutenberg, even has copies available of author Charles Carleton Coffin's book by that same name/phrase. Evidently Mr. Coffin was an embedded reporter with the Union Army.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34843 


This link shows the book The Boys of '61 online:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34843/34843-h/34843-h.htm