Category: General
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The Beginning: The First International Students of Messiah College
One of the many perks of being overworked in college is learning how to say no, even when it comes to research. While completing the Flowers family history, I “met” Reverend Meshach Krikorian. Despite all of the great details I have found regarding Meshach’s life, I did not have the time to pursue his story, which…
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The Woes of A Senior History Major
Woe noun \’wō\—used to express grief, regret, or distress. I am now entering into the end of my third week of my senior year. It hit me over the summer that this is the year I must figure out what I am doing after I graduate. What are your plans after graduation? I now regret…
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library Research Grant
Today I just found out I won a research grant given out by my school’s library! This grant allows you to do research at other libraries or archives. I am going to use this grant to travel down to the Mississippi State Archives in Jackson. I was made aware by another blogger that Hilda Flowers’,…
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Update on research
Never imagined that my research would result in this, but I realized no researcher does. Classes have just started, yet this semester is almost done. The reason behind my absent, actual I been just reading other people’s blogs. This semester was my first semester as a history major after biology, sociology and anthropology, and politics…my…
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Was Harry Flowers a Slave?
Harry Flowers, the father of Rachel, was born in 1846 in Putnam County, Florida. According to Census documents (link below), there were a total of 2,487,355 slaves in 1840, 3,204,313 slaves in 1850, and 3,953,760 in 1860.In Florida, there were 25,717 in 1840, 39,310 in 1850, and 61,745 in 1860. I decided to use…
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Research Note.
Researching the life of Rachel Flowers is more difficult than I initially thought. It is quite a headache, a good, yet frustrating headache. Searching for a person born at the turn of the twentieth century, a black person, a black woman, holds many limitations. I truly hope to find a family member, one of her…
Diary of a Historian 