Grandmother Matilda's Mount Morris: Historic Map of Joseph Newton Fox's Whitely Township

Okay, here it is...everybody's favorite map to check out as soon as they locate their family names in Whitely Township.

Last year we bought the panel depicting Miracle Run, West Virginia and we haven't gotten a chance to buy this one yet (hopefully the electricity will come back on after Hurricane Sandy and we can get back to work!!!).

You want to click on the link here and then scroll down the page. From there you can zoomify on the map and travel around more closely! Don't forget to give a wave to the Longs (that's where Elias Fox's mother grew up).

Sometimes technology is terribly exciting.

Historic Map, Whitely Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania--click here.

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To the names on papers either seized by the Confederates or AS confederate papers, those of Fox and Calvert, we can add Dulaney. So much of our West Virginia and Pennsylvania research feels like pussy-footing around the Civil War only to just barely discover how the elements of the warring effected people personally.

We have to keep reminding ourselves that 1860 was the eve of the war proper, but the elements heating up to spark the eve had been building and building. The architecture of the war is much more complicated than slapping a few logs together to make some shelter.

And after the War the consequences of a people, yet again, pounding differences out in actions of brutality brought distinct regional distinctions to our country. These are evident in particular finances and the general mending up of economy with horrific gashes in it. Socially, America was more Frankenstein-like than a whistling patriotic tunes cartoon picture. Legislation did not instill fondness, nor religion decency. Many of the moral dilemmas which had so violently clashed with permissions to use guns against neighbors were pulled forth into the next decade like tattered flags and half burnt consistories.

At best families disguised modern political party tethers in some older heritage. And there were those who never did speak to so-and-so again and/or would NOT belong to the same kind of church as those people. People were trying to figure out how to go on. And many did not stay in the conflagration that was the Pennsylvania/West Virginia area--only passed through changing their names to reflect difference from and hope for.

Grandmother Matilda's Mount Morris

Historic Map of Joseph Newton Fox's Whitely Township

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