On October 1st, 1861 Alpheus Rowley met with fellow volunteers at the National Guard headquarters at the old Markle Mill in Terre Haute, Indiana. There 41 men signed the muster roll of the Otter Creek National Guard, a local guard unit formed by the community in Otter Creek Township.     In 1864, Alpheus entered federal service in [Click to continue…]

Wrenford Rayment, the son of Thomas Butler Rayment, a painter, and his wife Sarah Ann Rayment née Davies, was born on 5th April 1889 in Kneesworth, a small village just a mile north of the town of Royston in Hertfordshire.  The third of five children, he lived in the Cambridgeshire side of Royston (before the county border was moved) and after leaving [Click to continue…]

Elizabeth, then known as Nellie, was the granddaughter of a Scottish missionary who had administered to the poorest of the poor in South India for fifty years http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/faithandfamily.htm. Her home was therefore in the Palani Hills of South India where she was born. Educated at Ancaster House, Bexhill-on-Sea in England, [Click to continue…]