St. Vincent Memories

Percy's grave is in the St. Vincent Cemetery Sgt Major Percy John Edkins U.S. Marine Corps O n May 18, 1917, the Selective Serv...

I had an wonderful time at the Gamble Family Reunion . Bill and I spent most of Friday on our own around the area, exploring and taking ph...

From Lori Kohut Bianco, Gamble descendant : Alexander Gamble Jr & William Neill Gamble. My guess is this was one of the photos mentioned...

My Grandpa Neill "Bo" Gamble gave me this photo of the William Neill Gamble farmhouse where he grew up near St. Vincent, Minnesot...

Back in August, I wrote that once Gamble descendent Alice had time to scan her ancestor's scrapbook (known as the 'Maggie Book'...

Until we get the scans courtesy of Cindy Adams, director of the Kittson County Museum, these photos taken with a cell phone are a nice previ...

Oh my word, faithful readers! Has it ever been an exciting past few days! Alice - one of the descendents of the Gamble family whose precious...

My mother was born in 1922. So was another resident of St. Vincent ... [NOTE: All photos taken in St. Vincent. If anyone knows anything m...

Winnie Lapp, 104, of Elk Grove, Calif., died April 23, 2008. Graveside services are scheduled for May 7, 2008, 2 p.m. at the St. Vincent Cem...

A school certificate, signed by (among others), Duncan Cameron... A sale bill for an auction of the Hugh Griffith farm in 1916...

I recently received some items in the mail from a Gamble family member (a family who must be packrats, bless their hearts and lucky for us),...

Another ' Gamble Letter ' has been found! Lori Bianco, Great Granddaughter of the writer, recently found it among her familiy's ...

I love to hear from my readers, and this morning I had an email from Lori, a Gamble descendant, sharing this with me... I enjoyed your arti...

Maggie Neill wrote letters to the Gamble family all her life. The Gambles left Ontario in the late 1870's when Maggie was just a young ...

Long time readers of this blog will know the Gamble family well. Have you wondered what they looked like? Well, wonder no longer. NOTE: A...

The Gamble family will forever fascinate me. They are second only to my own families - the Clow, the Fitzpatrick, the Fitzgerald, and the Sh...

What a wonderful surprise... I got another missive from a reader, and this reader is from the Gamble family ... Please, how do I get in touc...

Descendents of the original Gambles that settled St. Vincent have been in touch, and shared this with me about the "story after the sto...

We now come to end of the Gamble Letters. Below are the final three letters in the collection. No doubt there were more, but they are lost t...

The winter of 1896/1897 ...it was a portentious winter, with heavy snowfall. It would lead to one of the worst floods on record. Read about...