More Land Deeds of Teague and Brothers

 

More Deeds of Teague and Brothers

 

More Deeds for Teague and Brothers

 

Land Deeds involving Teague, his brothers, and possibly his sons 1806 -1812

 

Land Deeds involving Teague 1803

 

Property in Russell County Virginia - Little Yadkin

 I believe that Teague Quillin V and Peggy Nation  were married in 1788 in Surry County North Carolina. They would have been very young. They owned property in Surry County in Sept 1790 as they sold a farm of 200 acre on Blews Creek to Michael Fain.

By 1791, they had purchased 4 tracts of land on the waters of Obey, Copper and Plank Creeks about 5 miles from Gate City in Scott County Virginia (back then it was Russell County). This is where they must have started their family. 

In Dec 1812, there was a land grant of 91 acres on the Little Yadkin entered for the heirs of Teague on 6 April 1784.

Source information

Title

North Carolina, Land Grant Files, 1693-1960

Author

Ancestry.com

Publisher

Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.

Publisher date

2016

North Carolina Land Grants - Quillin 1749-1846

 Not sure how to connect these with the correct Quillins

Teague (1772) Quillin's 1st Wife

 Margaret "Peggy" Nation 

Peggy was born in Surry County, NC about 1772.. She married Teague in 1788 and they had three children: John W 1793, Nancy 1794, Thomas 1802.... and a Lawson researcher who helped me thought that they may have had another daughter, Anna. I'm not convinced of that. Teague walked away from this marriage sometime around 1813. He moved to Kentucky and married again. 

Peggy is living with son John (my ancestor) in 1850. I am thinking that Anna is most likely a child of one of Peggy Nation's siblings. More research in needed to determine who she is. 

The census was taken in early September, and I think Peggy died shortly afterwards... in Scott County, Virginia.

Sources

1850 U.S. Federal Census: Place: Western District, Scott, Virginia; Roo: M432_975 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls [Ancestryy.com, 2009]

Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 [Ancestry.com 2014]

http://www.ourtexasfamilycom.ipage.com/Alford-Green-Williams/Nation-Henry-JosephDesc.html

htpp://www.megjohn.info/genealogy/uncleged/com597.html

Dave Nation family tree on Ancestry.com

NationStudy.com

U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

Name	Peggy Nation
Birth Date	1772
SAR Membership	95927
Role	Ancestor
Application Date	19 Jun 1967
Spouse	Teaque Quillen
Children	Thomas Quillen

Can the Confusion about All the Teagues Be Solved?

 QUILLIN CLAN ASSOCIATION

Information from Quillin Clan Association on Facebook July 12 2023
I revisited this in July 2025
  
Jack 'Pete' Templeton
I am a descendant of Teague the immigrant. My line moved from coastal MD/VA to NC to Southwest VA in what is now Scott County.
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Ronnie Parker
Author
Jack 'Pete' Templeton mine from MD/VA to NC to Northeast Kentucky
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Jack 'Pete' Templeton
Ronnie Parker my extended Quillen’s made it up to Johnson & Morgan Counties. Great(4)grandfather Teague Quillen V (1772-1860) left his family in Scott County ca 1815 and headed to KY, remarried and raised another entire brood. Kids included: Teague VI, Henry, William, James, Richard, Solomon & some girls
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Christine Kelley
Jack 'Pete' Templeton that's my line. Teague V marries Mary Jane (Polly) Sanders and they had Teague VI. He marries Jane T Gibson and has my 2nd great grandfather, Creed M Quillen who marries Mary Ellen Hammes. He moves to California as a widow 1910-1920. That made the Quillens from shore to shore in the USA.😉
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Sally Lee
Jack 'Pete' Templeton as you already know, my line is same as yours and from Gate City.
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Annette Marshall Pulskamp
My line goes to Teague immigrant from Ireland to Maryland in 1615. Some spread to NC then to Ky and Tn from there. However my line went to Ohio in Tuscawarus County (Northeast Ohio) where they still remain but my family line moved to the Dayton Oh region and dispersed from there.
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Ronnie Parker
Author
Annette Marshall Pulskamp my line settled in Lawrence county Kentucky
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Annette Marshall Pulskamp
Ronnie Parker I have a copy of the Letcher Co Ky book if you would like a copy Pm me your email. It has a breakdown of the Ky branch.
 
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Nancy Quillin Long
🙋🏼‍♀️. I would love to solve the Teague dilemma between Teague 1615 and Teague 1772, father of John Quillin born 1793.
 
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Annette Marshall Pulskamp
Nancy Quillin Long we need more direct men with Quillin/Quillen names so the paternal lines are linked to do the Y-111 dna and join the McQuillan project on Familytreedna. It seems many of the lines are producing women and the bloodlines are dwindling per the management of the McQuillan project.
There are some new strides and the more dna collection the more we can connect and unravel the similarities in our lineages. Maybe one day solve Teague.
There is also a Glenravel DNA project you can join or if you are on Gedmatch you can join there as well. There are known people in that group that have lived in Ireland and had relatives come to US or Canada and move back that have documented proof of their lines and also the connections to the Castle McQuillan clan as well.
So if you have a Dad, uncle, grandparent etc with the Quillin name and they are willing to test it may help us all in the long run to solve this mystery.
Also there were 3 skeletons of men from 3000 years ago found recently on Rathlin Island and a female found recently in Belfast dating back 5200 years. My Uncles test matched dna from Male #1. This has prompted the project to look at others to see if it could be a strong enough connection to the McQuillans being actual Tribal people of Ireland versus being invaders of the Norman DeMandevilles as the expected but not proven theory stands in their history books currently.
It may take a village but I too hope to connect Teague. With no records from that time currently available dna may be the answer for now.
However they did just come across 300 years of papers stored in Belfast dating from 1700 back of baptism records they are hoping to get entered online. But no one can say when this will happen or how long.
 
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Nancy Quillin Long
Great information! Unfortunately, I only have female Quillin relatives left. My dad passed away in 1998 and had 2 sisters. My brother passed away….but…he had 2 girls and a son 🤔
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Annette Marshall Pulskamp
Nancy Quillin Long thank you anyway

Title Page - The Quillin (MACQUILLIN) Family

 

History Sheet Teague Quillin V - Confusion with all the Teagues

 

History Sheet

Teague Quillin V

Compiled by Nancy Quillin Long

8 July 2017

(I’ve been gathering this information since 1990.)

 

My first and foremost source has always been:

The Quillin (MacQuillin) Family : The MacQuillins in Ireland by Claude MacQuillin

The Quillins in America Compiled by Milligan Wood Quillen and Mary Kinser Brown

Published by the Quillin Clan

Gate City, Virginia 1961

Reprinted January 1987

 

Before digging into any other resources, I broke down my lineage as best as I could according to the research in this book because my own immediate family was also included.  I have tried to stay true to their information, often doubting the long string of Teagues. To be honest, their research on the first Quillins in America was difficult to decipher.

 

A post by Prezzle Quillen on a message board dated 30 March 2001 in response to a question about Teague Quillen confirmed that I was not the only one confused by the number of Teagues that I was documenting.

 

Prezzle's post reads:

The numbering of the Teague Quillins is debated, but the Quillin Family book, chapter 3, page 47, states,  "...There were several members of the Quillen family in Surry and Stokes counties of North Carolina : John, James, Robert, Daniel, Teague IV and Walter Quillen.  James finally settled in Georgia; Robert settled in Patrick Co. Virginia; Charles in Texas; William went to Georgia and later back to Virginia; John remained in Surry Co N.C.; Teague IV died and his wife remarried, and his two young sons, James and Teague V sold out (6 Sept 1790) and moved to Russell Co VA (which is now Scott Co VA) where they bought land.”

 

But, I know that I have correctly traced myself back to Teague V. 

 

I have followed several other trusted researchers who do good research. They, too, are split when it comes to numbering the different Teagues.  The good news is that no matter how I record my ancestors, we all go back to Daniel Quillin, son of Teague Quillin, who came to America on a ship named The Thomas and landed in Virginia in 1635.

 

My lineage is as follows:

Teague Quillin V born 1772 NC married Peggy Nation < Teague Quillin IV born 1750 NC married Polly Sanders < Teague Quillin III born 1704 Delaware married Mary Catherine Herring < Teague Quillin II born 1669 Maryland married Mary? < Daniel born 1638 VA married Lydia? < Teague Quillin born 1615 Ireland married ? came to America in 1635

 

Another possibility is as follows: (which makes sense) Teague Quillin V born 1772 married Peggy Nation < Teague Quillin IV  born 1755 NC married Polly Sanders < Teague III born 1715 Maryland married Mary Catherine Herring < Thomas Quillen II born 1691 Maryland married Barbara Blackthorne < Thomas Quillen I born 1669 Maryland married Sarah Morris < Daniel Quillen born 1638 VA married Lydia < Teague Quillen born 1615 Ireland married Mary?

 

Daniel and Lydia's children are documented in baptismal records.  They are : Eliza, Daniel, Teague, Thomas, Judith, Elizabeth.  SO...I'm not sure if our line would have gone through Teague or Thomas...but either way, we are linked to Daniel Quillen son of Teague the emigrant.

 

Now back to my Teague Quillin V.  There is quite a bit of documentation about him which I believe is firm. 

 

Teague Quillin V

There is quite a bit of documentation about this Teague. He lived a varied life with 3 different wives.  He appears to have been very independent and not afraid to move on with his life, purchasing land then either selling it or deeding it to family members and eventually moving on.  I feel that he lived through good times and bad times, but he was able to move on and start over.  

He was born in 1772 in North Carolina. Shortly after his marriage to Peggy Nation in North Carolina, they moved to Virginia where Teague purchased 4 tracts of land. (See the map of Scott County.)  My ancestor, John W. Quillin, Sr., was their first born child.  I'm not sure what happened to Teague and Peggy’s marriage, but Teague married for a second time to Mary "Polly" Sanders in Floyd Co. Kentucky in 1819.  Peggy Nation died in 1850, so Teague must have walked away from this marriage and family.  My John W. Quillin, Sr., inherited the land in Virginia that belonged to Teague and Peggy.   

 

In Kentucky, Teague V and Mary Polly had 5 children. Mary died in 1826, and Teague remarried for a third time to Jean (Jane) Collyer on 10 March 1828 in Floyd County, Kentucky.  Teague had 3 more children with Jean.

 

Shortly before he died, Teague V was living with his son Richard (the second son with Jean) which could mean that he outlived his third wife, Jean.  I do not have a death date for her.

 

By Ronnie Quillin on his website on Genealogy.com

When I was growing up my father told me a story about one of my grandfathers. He never said which one, probably never knew himself, as this story has been passed down from generation to generation. This particular grandfather was sitting on the steps of his home; his wife supposedly came to the door and threw a pan of dishwater in his face. He said, "When it rains it pours," and he walked off and never returned. While I (Ronnie) was in Letcher County, Kentucky in the summer of 1976, I talked with several of the Quillen families in and around Whitesburg, Kentucky, and was told that Teague Quillin left Moxen Gap, Virginia, for Perry County, Kentucky, and that his brother "Jim Quillin" stayed on in Moxen Gap. I was told that "Teague just up and walked away, never to return to Virginia." Thus, supporting the story that my father had told me several years back.

This story fits the above information that I have about Teague V, being married again before Peggy died.

In the County Recorder's Office at Whitesburg, Kentucky, the land records state (Volume A, pg.6)that Teague Quillen deeded ground to Richard and Solomon Quillen, his two sons, on June 5, 1844. In Volume B pg. 171, he deeds ground to Jane Quillen.

 

On January 9, 1848 the marriage records state that Teague Quillen married a Jane Gibson.  I believe this would be Teague Quillen VI.

  

This is a family history book that I will need to investigate.

Quillin history Published in 1946 by The Quillin Clan, Kingsport Press

 

 

SOURCES

THE QUILLIN (MACQUILLIN) FAMILY book

United States Federal Censuses : 1790, 1820, 1830, 1850, 1860

Virginia Select Marriages, 1785-1940

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=patti%2Dlawson&id=I00275

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/q/u/i/Ronnie-Quillin/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0753.html

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaschs2/june_presley.htm

http://reocities.com/heartland/cabin/3843/Relatedfamilies/quillin/d1.htm

SAR Application for Thomas Quillin to Teague V

National Society, Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 for Teague Quillen, National #95927, slides 549-550. [online database: Ancestry.com, 2011]

Intro to My Quillin Notebook 2011

 
My source is a book listed in the Library of Congress titled: The Quillin (MacQuillin) Family; The MacQuillins in Ireland by Claude MacQuillin.  A subtitle: The Quillins in America compiled by Milligan Wood Quillin and Mary Kinser Brown.  Published by The Quillin Clan, Gate City, Virginia.
 
I must thank these genealogists for their hours of research and hard work because as a very young genealogist myself in 1990, they paved the way for me.  After running into dead ends with my Quillin maiden name, I found this “MacQuillin” book listed in the Library of Congress index.  My father, Truman Bryan Quillin, Sr., placed me in contact with a cousin, J.B. Quillin, who had this book in his possession, and he very graciously shared his copy with me.  This book linked me directly through my father and my brother for which I was elated.  Shortly thereafter, I was able to secure my own reprinted copy.  It is truly one of my treasures.
 
It appears that much of the MacQuillin history up to 1616 was gleaned from “The Annals of the Irish Kingdom by the Four Masters”.  We are truly blessed that these four Franciscan Brothers spent their long lives collecting manuscripts and documents of Irish history, including four intensive years (1632-1636) copying it into legible form.  Another source cited was the Ulster Journal of Archaeology.
 
As with any research of this nature, I am sure there are errors, but at least this history was recorded and gives us all a clue into our storied past.  I have since had the privilege to travel to Northern Ireland myself and view first hand the area called Ulster in ancient times and Antrim in present day.  I also visited the archives in Dublin and secured a few documents that were written in Latin, but they are in my possession, none-the-less.  I purchased several books that discussed the MacQuillin Clan.
 
Thank you, again, to all of those in the Quillin Clan who worked tirelessly to share this rich history of my family.  With that said, I hope you enjoy these few short pages of Quillin history.

Quillin Family Revolutionaries from Scott County

 

Scott County Historical Society
Scott County, Virginia

Scrapbook Memories

Mildred McConnell's Scrapbook Articles

A Few Scott County Revolutionaries

By Mrs. Anne M. Grigsby

Among the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War from Surry and Stokes

Counties, North Carolina, were several members of the Quillen family: John, James, Robert, Daniel, Teague IV and Walter.

     James Quillen finally settled in Georgia, Robert in Patrick County, Virginia, Charles in Texas, William went to Georgia, then back to Virginia, John remained in Surry County, North Carolina, Teague IV died, leaving his wife who married again, and two young sons, James and Teague V, who settled in that part of Russell County, Virginia which is now Scott County. Teague Quillen V (born 1772 in North Carolina) bought four tracts of land on the waters of Obey, Copper and Plank Creeks about five miles from the present site of Gate City. He married Peggy Nation, born 1772. Three children – John Quillen (born 1793) in North Carolina, acquired lands of his father in Scott County.

     John Quillen married Rebecca Lawson, eldest daughter of William Lawson, Jr., who was a Revolutionary soldier.

Jane Collier Consent Forms

Teague Quillin V - Cautionary Tale

                                             

There is no doubt about it! I am connected to Teague V. It has been documented and verified!!! So I will proceed with the documentation of my Teague V and Peggy Nation.

But there is A CAUTIONARY TALE. I detailed it in my history sheet of him. READ THAT INFORMATION CAREFULLY.

I have never wanted to put into print any family information that I'm not sure about, but if I don't proceed with what I have on Teague V, I would never get to the ancient history that I know we are connected to. There are two trains of thought of our ancestors above Teague V (1772-1860), but no matter how you slice the bread, all Quillins in America go back to the first Teague that immigrated here from Ireland in 1635 on a ship named The Thomas. My line is connected to Daniel Quillin, son of that Teague.

There are two ways to connect to the first TEAGUE (1615-1644), but either way they both converge with Daniel, his son. I can not go against the documentation that I was first presented with in the MacQuillin book, but that information is vague and not documented well. 

With that said, if I don't start placing on my blog the information that I have on TEAGUE V, I will never get to a place where I can present our very RICH history that comes from Ireland.

Teague Quillin V Pedigree Chart

 

Connecting Through Rich Family History Books

 PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW OTHER FAMILY HISTORY BOOKS REVEAL OUR FAMILY

Source: History of the Addington Family: Chapter III: p 12, by Hugh Addington, published 1931

The Quillins come from IRELAND

                             

This post was made on 27 March 2023. I'm reposting it because I'm going WAY BACK in the Quillin history....and this is where my Family History work ALL began.

Breaking Ground

As a child, we have an instant connection with our immediate family. It is there that our roots are established, and it is there that we build our foundation. I was fortunate to live near most of my extended family. I knew my aunts and uncles well, and my cousins were my first playmates. Another bonus was that I knew three of my great-grandparents personally. As I grew up, I always felt those close family ties, and I was always curious about the others that came before them.

After I got married, my husband and I became world travelers. I had already begun documenting the basic roots of my family with the help of a few family historians that I knew personally. As we planned our trip to Ireland for the summer of 1990, I was inspired by my grandmother's maiden name, McNair. My thought was that with the "Mc" in this name, that surely, I had Irish roots. I got the bright idea to make a few trips to the Texas State Archives to see if I could quickly establish a connection with family in Ireland. Yeah, right?

All I found on these trips to the archives was frustration. In fact, I could not find any of my closest McNair relatives; therefore, the search was a dead end. The problem was that I was a fledgling genealogist and I had this "hurry up" factor involved. (*Note: shortly after my trip to Ireland, I found a wealth of information about my McNair roots.) I gave up the ghost and folded up all my research papers to wait for my husband, who by the way, found a few gems about his family on these visits to the archives. During my wait, I decided to check out my maiden name, Quillin.

Quillin, hum...? It is a unique name, different than most last names. Voilà! I hit the jackpot! Right off the bat in the card catalogue, I learned that there was a MacQuillin book listed in the Library of Congress. I went to the stacks and there it was: The Quillin (MacQuillin) Family; The MacQuillins in Ireland by Claude MacQuillin. Better still was the fact that my ancient ancestors had a glorious castle in Northern Ireland, now in ruins. And I WAS GOING TO IRELAND in a few short months. 

My excitement sent me through the roof, and needless to say, our trip to Ireland took on a whole new look. This book connected me all the way down to my daddy, with my brother listed as a child. This was beyond my wildest dreams, and I look forward to sharing more about my daddy, my Quillin roots, and my trip to Ireland in following blog posts. 

The MacQuillin Clan

 

Today, I begin with the next generation of my great-great-grandparents, and at the top of the brackets is my Quillin line. This generation on all of my lines has been the most difficult to document because of the census records. Before 1850, the families are listed with only the name of the head of households and a count of the other members in age brackets. Unless you can find a written will, land purchases, war pensions, etc., where names are listed with your ancestor, proof becomes dicey. In the south during the Civil War, many records were pillaged, burned or destroyed making it even more difficult to accurately trace your lineage. This is the generation where some of my brackets fall apart. With some of the families, however, there were historical societies that took up the cause to record information about the people of the communities. I have been fortunate to find a few of these historical books that have my family mentioned. And some of the families have a rich history recorded in a complete lineage book. Such is the case with my Quillin Clan.

I couldn't have been luckier than to find a book with a Library of Congress number that actually traces this line down all the way to Daddy, with my two older siblings listed. There is a generation in the late 1770's that researchers have taken two paths to get to the ancestor that migrated here in 1635 on a ship named The Thomas headed for the New World, but either way you turn the coin, you will arrive at Daniel Quillin whose father was a Teague Quillin, the man who braved the ocean to come to America and help settle this wild frontier.

It's quite a tale, and I'm excited to share my Quillin lineage all the way back to Ireland.

Letters from Robert Haskell Quillin

 Letter 1993

Letter from 1995

Proof of Ira and Edna Quillin's daughter Polly

 Polly married Samson Howard Darnell on 5 May 1851

Ira D. Quillin

Robert Haskell Quillin, wife Barbara and their girls. This photo was sent to me in a Christmas card.

 I wrote on this blog about this generation in Oct and Sept 2023 and now ready to take the research further with what I have. In order to make my great great grandfather, Ira, come alive, I needed to find someone who could give me more information. I located such a man name Robert Quillin. I have some of this documentation on the blog already in 2023. 

I corresponded quite a bit with Robert and he even made a trip to Texas to see the Hill Country and to meet me. What a DELIGHTFUL man with a beautiful wife, Barbara. Oh how I wish now that I had embraced him more.

Robert lived in Bristol Tennessee (on the line with Virginia) and was the caretaker of the Ira Quillin Cemetery, which only has a few graves. 

He was adamant that a man named Joel Shelley had said that Ira D Quillin feel ill on a battlefield in the Civil War and passed away. Joel was a reporter and had written some articles about the soldiers of the area that had fought in the Civil War. Robert was told that there was nothing others could do for Ira and so they covered him with a coat and left him there. (see the articles posted in Sept 2023)

Robert also pursued going to the courthouse archives to find a few news articles written by Joel Shelly and sent me copies of said articles. But to his amazement there was no mention of Ira D Quillin on the list of soldiers. 

Now all these many years ago since the early 1990s, I have tested with DNA and I find that others claim to be descendants of a son name Henry born in 1868. I cannot find proof of that, and it is not my line, so I haven't been diligent to trace it down. 

But here is the documentation from the graveyard that Robert tended.

Ira Quillin Cemetery in Hiltons, Virginia - Find a Grave Cemetery

Ira is not buried there and a man named Donald Lane makes a comment. Donald was a longtime researcher and respected for his work. 

Maybe someday I will solve the mystery of a son of Ira and Edna named Henry.

Here is what is written on the Find-A Grave page:

The Ira Quillin Cemetery

This cemetery is located slightly to the west and due north of Herman Chap Methodists Church, on the old QUILLIN farm on Fowlers Branch. It is located on the hillside a few hundred yards past the end of the maintained Route 697. The cemetery is unfenced and clean. It is marked by two large cedar trees which were placed at the head and foot of CICERO QUILLIN's grave. TROY DORAN took GUY SANDERS and me to the cemetery and gave us a list of six of the eleven or more persons buried there. Troy made the list by discussing it with his mother, AUDREY QUILLEN DORAN. TROY presently leases the farm from his uncle, ROBERT QUILLEN, who owns it. ROBERT said that his father gave him a list of eleven people who were buried there, but the list was lost long ago. IRA QUILLIN SR died during the Civil War and is thought to have been buried near Manassas, VA. [From Donald W. Lane, Jan 2003]

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2679389/ira-quillin-cemetery?

see post September 14,2023

Changes In My Lifetime - Offset Printing

ADD OLD PRINTING PRESSES FROM 1950

METAL CASTING ETC

 

Being the daughter of the owner and publisher of the local newspaper, The Vernon Daily Record, I witnessed technology changing the world first hand. When I was little, I would go to the newspaper office with Daddy and watch the employees set type manually with metal letters and plates for every story.  They had to melt down silver bars to carve out the plates. Once those were set, the plate was sent to the back to begin the printing on the paper. This area of the building was very dark to me, with the use of the black ink. There were many heavy black machines with moving mechanisms that rolled the paper to be printed. There was also a rickety old elevator that we would ride down to the basement where the HUGE rolls of paper were stored. In the 70s, Daddy changed over to “offset” printing which was more efficient and clean.  He travelled all over the country to learn about the process, and eventually invested time and money to change the Vernon Daily Record over to this process.

Changes In My Lifetime - Computers

 THE WORLD WIDE WEB
1993

World Wide Web: Definition, history and facts | Live Science

Personal computers were unheard of until the 1980s. I was lucky enough to be teaching at that time and part of our in-service training was to learn the computer. Though it seemed insurmountable and confusing at the time, I am blessed to have learned what I did back then, in order to feel somewhat comfortable using today’s technology. The World Wide Web was not used until the 1990s, and once again, I was able to learn alongside my students, sometimes with their help.  They prided themselves of being able to teach the teacher. We were still using card catalogues when I retired from teaching in 2007, yet with the world wide web, we were fighting against students copying and pasting reports. I always felt that it was valuable for students to know how to access information in books. That process may now be a thing of the past.

Changes In My Lifetime - Technology

 COMPUTERS/TECHNOLOGY

The first computers 1950s

Difference engine wallpaper - Computer wallpapers - #36759

First personal IBM PC

A quick look back at the first IBM PC that launched 42 years ago today - Neowin

In September 1956, IBM released the first computer with a hard drive, the IBM 305 RAMAC. The machine weighed one ton and measured 16 square feet. The development of the hard drive was revolutionary and influenced how we use computers in the modern day. So…all during my educational years, 1960-1978, we did things the “old fashioned” way, by hand. Bic pens were released in 1950 and were not even present in my world until the late 1960s. I used pencil for everything, very large pencils in elementary school. I remember using the first cartridge ink pens in Jr. High. I was fairly efficient at changing the cartridge, but it could get messy at times.

 For school reports, we had to access the library and manually find information in books. I adored using the card catalogue and learning the Dewey decimal system, probably because I loved being a teacher’s aide in the 7th grade under the librarian, Mrs. Moore. Every book in the library was cross-referenced in the card catalogue. A report might involve perusing several books, making notes on 3x5 cards, organizing them, then handwriting out the report.

 In high school, I learned how to type. Typing was my favorite class and I was very proficient and fast. I learned on a manual typewriter, and eventually, the school purchased several electric typewriters. We had to rotate in order to have experience on the electric typewriter. We had competitions and I always had one of the best scores of how many words per minute with the least mistakes. Before I left for college, Mother and Daddy purchased me an electric typewriter. Corrections were done with correction film or White Out. With three or four long reports due each semester, that was a lot of work.