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Who knew it could happen a second time?
I mean, it had happened once to me already. So, just who thought it would, or could, happen again?
A major computer crash. That's what I'm talking about!
My first computer crash was literally a melt down. [Yes, literally.] I was using an HP laptop. And I mean a very expensive [spelled "thousands" of dollars], and guess what? The cooling fan malfunctioned and the hard drive melted. Yep. It cost me over $800 to have my files extracted that time.
Yep... you already guessed it. I didn't have a single thing backed up! [Talk about a nightmare!] I went into a serious panic back then!
That was in 2006. And I have been a fanatic about backing up files ever since. Daily I did computer backup. Then I did backup to an external hard drive, as well as relying on Mozy, for off-site backup. And I swore I'd never keep any files on my computer's hard drive ever again! Well, even with all of that I managed to still have quite an extensive amount of files saved on my computer's hard drive by ten days ago.
And then, I clicked on my toolbar. Yep. A toolbar. And within five minutes I saw my hard drive crash. I could see multiple [literally hundreds of] windows popping up, informing me that a trojan had sent forth its charges. My computer would not shut down. And my anti-virus , while updated only 5 days before, was not prepared for this new onslaught. [Lesson: update anti-virus at least every other day!]
Well, my computer is still down for repair. They may still have to wipe the drive and begin fresh, as the virus is "undetermined".
In the meantime, I got another computer, and am busily setting it up. My external hard drive was protected, so no problems there. But the files I had put on my computers hard drive, I am now retrieving from Mozy. It is well worth the cost of $55 a year. But unless you choose to order CD restoration [which will cost you another $75] it is time consuming. Always a penny-saver, I am taking the laborious route and taking the time to retrieve the files manually [which I am quite pleased to say are safe and are easily transferred to the new computer - although quite time involved].
I do hope to begin to blog once more beginning tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest. So I ask my dear blog friends and readers to bear with me!
Thank you to everyone who has emailed, or for the two who have called, to check on me! Once my other computer is back up and running, I will have a spare, and so I shouldn't ever have to complain about not being able to work due to a malfunction!
I did miss all of the excitement with the GeneaOlympics, and the initial 'Who Do You Think You Are?' posts! But I was reading all about them daily at the library and on the weekend with my hubby's notepad. [Sorry, but I will never be able to use such a tiny keyboard! Ugh! And I simply cannot abide texting or messaging on the cell phone!]
I did see Sarah Jessica Parker's genealogy hunt on WDYTYA Friday night. And I am impressed. Much more so than with PBS's "Faces of America", and I immensely enjoyed that. Looking forward to more this week! NBC, Ancestry, and Wall to Wall media have done an extraordinary job.
I have had my nose plugged into Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak's companion book since it arrived! What a great job Megan! I am so impressed. It is aimed at not just the novice, but everyone! I can see things fresh and anew. What a great work she has done! [I'm ordering copies for my kids now! Trying to get them involved in researching their ancestry. I want them involved! Otherwise, all of my hard work will be left to the county historical society and library when I am gone.And how sad that makes me!!!]
Is everyone else as impressed with Megan's book as I am?
The only thing I'd like to see now is NBC take some of the "commoner's" [non-celebrity individuals] of our country and attempt to perform some research on lines that they [those individuals] would like researched. Hey, I'd stand in line two or three days [or longer!] if they'd consider taking on my brick wall! How about you?
I'll see you in my next post!
Have a wonderful Monday!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Our Computer System Down
We ask that you bear with us this week while our computer system is down.
We hope to be back up and running by next Monday. We will be checking our email daily, but will not be writing during this time.
Thank you for your patience.
Texicanwife
Cyndi Beane Henry
Mountain Genealogists
We hope to be back up and running by next Monday. We will be checking our email daily, but will not be writing during this time.
Thank you for your patience.
Texicanwife
Cyndi Beane Henry
Mountain Genealogists
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Treasure Chest Thursday - 25 Feb 2010
While this is not perhaps the average “Treasure”, it is just that nonetheless. A treasure of a past that proclaimed a travesty that we pray is never repeated.
The ignorance of a nation appears to have finally sought knowledge, but the past remains, and it should be brought to light that future generations learn from those things that occurred. And lives of innocent are not in vain lost.
This is a photograph of the lynching that occurred in Clifton Forge, Virginia on 17 Oct 1891. My grandfather, John M. Bean, was living there at the time, and was a witness to much of this crime. Four black men, one of whom was only a 16-year old boy, were hung, dragged through the streets, and rehung, after a night of six of them drinking and carousing in the streets. The corpses were repeatedly shot by white passersby.
The Army National Guard was called in from Washington, D.C. to restore peace to the city.
The Washington Post described the travesty below:
From: THE WASHINGTON POST
18 October 1891
"LYNCHING IN VIRGINIA
A Day and Night of Bloodshed and Excitement at Clifton Forge
-------------------------------
SAVAGE FIGHTS WITH NEGROES
_________________
A White Man and a Black Killed in the Affray and Three Blacks Afterward Taken Out of Jail and Hanged by the Populace.
-----------------------------
CLIFTON FORGE, Va., Oct. 17. -- The inhabitants of Clifton Forge have been aroused to the utmost excitement to-day by one of the most tragic occurrences that has taken place in the town for many years, In fact never has there been such a fearful tragedy known in the history of the town, one white man and a negro being shot to death, and three negroes lynched.
This morning a gang of six armed, drunken negroes came into town from Big Hall mines, eight miles from here, and boasted loudly that they had come to take the place. This created confusion on the streets, as the negroes had pistols and other weapons which they exhibited freely. They walked about the streets insulting ladies and committing other outrages, and finally creating a riot.
A number of citizens decided to arrest them, but the negroes violently resisted arrest and breaking away from their would be captors, fled. A posse of town officers and citizens gave chase. When the negroes had nearly reached Iron Gate they turned and commenced firing upon their pursuers, and a battle between the posse and the rioters ensued. Philip Bolling of Albermarle county, a brakeman of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, was killed outright at the first fire, and Frederick Wilkinson, of Bedford county, was injured seriously. Bolling was married. Wilkinson will recover, it is thought.
The news of the shooting spread rapidly with excitement and in a short time fifty men were scouring the mountains, where the negroes took refuge, hunting them down. All of them were captured after several hours search and a second battle on the mountains between policemen and negroes. One of the negroes is supposed to be dead from his wounds, The other four were placed in jail here, three of them having been wounded before they were captured.
Threats of lynching were heard on all sides, and the mayor prepared to defend the jail against attack, saying he was determined to frustrate the mob.
Two large mobs, numbering in all about 500, formed in the town and met at Sweetwood's store at about 10 o'clock tonight. They fired salutes and then the two combined and marched to the jail, where the prsioners taken in the afternoon had been confined.
They attempted, after firing into the jail for some time, to break open the door with a ram, but it was too strong and resisted their efforts. They then procured axes and sledge-hammers and broke in.
They took out three prsioners, and taken them to a gully about half a mile from the jail, they strung two of them up to a tree and filled them full of bullets. The third prisoner, who was a boy sixteen years old, they brought back.
It is not likely that any arrests will be made, as public sentiment justifies the deed, the conduct of the negroes and the shooting of the two white men having roused the public to an uncontrollable pitch of fury.
A fourth negro was taken out and lynched later."
All of this left a profound mark upon John. He kept a copy of the newspaper clipping until his death on 10 Apr 1955.
The ignorance of a nation appears to have finally sought knowledge, but the past remains, and it should be brought to light that future generations learn from those things that occurred. And lives of innocent are not in vain lost.
17 October 1891
Clifton Forge, Virginia
This is a photograph of the lynching that occurred in Clifton Forge, Virginia on 17 Oct 1891. My grandfather, John M. Bean, was living there at the time, and was a witness to much of this crime. Four black men, one of whom was only a 16-year old boy, were hung, dragged through the streets, and rehung, after a night of six of them drinking and carousing in the streets. The corpses were repeatedly shot by white passersby.
The Army National Guard was called in from Washington, D.C. to restore peace to the city.
The Washington Post described the travesty below:
From: THE WASHINGTON POST
18 October 1891
"LYNCHING IN VIRGINIA
A Day and Night of Bloodshed and Excitement at Clifton Forge
-------------------------------
SAVAGE FIGHTS WITH NEGROES
_________________
A White Man and a Black Killed in the Affray and Three Blacks Afterward Taken Out of Jail and Hanged by the Populace.
-----------------------------
CLIFTON FORGE, Va., Oct. 17. -- The inhabitants of Clifton Forge have been aroused to the utmost excitement to-day by one of the most tragic occurrences that has taken place in the town for many years, In fact never has there been such a fearful tragedy known in the history of the town, one white man and a negro being shot to death, and three negroes lynched.
This morning a gang of six armed, drunken negroes came into town from Big Hall mines, eight miles from here, and boasted loudly that they had come to take the place. This created confusion on the streets, as the negroes had pistols and other weapons which they exhibited freely. They walked about the streets insulting ladies and committing other outrages, and finally creating a riot.
A number of citizens decided to arrest them, but the negroes violently resisted arrest and breaking away from their would be captors, fled. A posse of town officers and citizens gave chase. When the negroes had nearly reached Iron Gate they turned and commenced firing upon their pursuers, and a battle between the posse and the rioters ensued. Philip Bolling of Albermarle county, a brakeman of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, was killed outright at the first fire, and Frederick Wilkinson, of Bedford county, was injured seriously. Bolling was married. Wilkinson will recover, it is thought.
The news of the shooting spread rapidly with excitement and in a short time fifty men were scouring the mountains, where the negroes took refuge, hunting them down. All of them were captured after several hours search and a second battle on the mountains between policemen and negroes. One of the negroes is supposed to be dead from his wounds, The other four were placed in jail here, three of them having been wounded before they were captured.
Threats of lynching were heard on all sides, and the mayor prepared to defend the jail against attack, saying he was determined to frustrate the mob.
Two large mobs, numbering in all about 500, formed in the town and met at Sweetwood's store at about 10 o'clock tonight. They fired salutes and then the two combined and marched to the jail, where the prsioners taken in the afternoon had been confined.
They attempted, after firing into the jail for some time, to break open the door with a ram, but it was too strong and resisted their efforts. They then procured axes and sledge-hammers and broke in.
They took out three prsioners, and taken them to a gully about half a mile from the jail, they strung two of them up to a tree and filled them full of bullets. The third prisoner, who was a boy sixteen years old, they brought back.
It is not likely that any arrests will be made, as public sentiment justifies the deed, the conduct of the negroes and the shooting of the two white men having roused the public to an uncontrollable pitch of fury.
A fourth negro was taken out and lynched later."
All of this left a profound mark upon John. He kept a copy of the newspaper clipping until his death on 10 Apr 1955.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Tombstone Tuesday - 23 Feburary 2010
BLANCHE U.
WIFE OF
JOHN M. BEAN
BORN
APRIL 7, 1875
DIED
NOV. 18, 1902
Married June 26, 1895
She married John Monroe Bean 26 Jun 1895 in Monroe County. The couple had three children: Rita, Lama and Pauline. Blanche contracted tuberculosis and died just four months after Pauline’s birth.
Blanche died on 18 November 1902.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Surname Saturday - 20 Feb 2010
Today I would like to introduce you to my Tuckwiller family:
1. Cynthia Ann BEANE daughter of Walter Maxwell BEANE and Lois Velleda DREHER.
2. Walter Maxwell BEANE son of John Monroe BEAN and Mary Elizabeth FAUDREE. Married: Lois Velleda DREHER.
4. John Monroe BEAN son of William McHarvey BEAN and Margaret Smith PERKINS was born on 15 Dec 1866 in Cincinatti, Ohio. He died on 10 Apr 1954 in Waiteville, Monroe Co., WV. Married [3]: Mary Elizabeth FAUDREE.
8. William McHarvey BEAN son of William M. BEAN and Rachel WISEMAN was born on 26 Aug 1832 in Dropping Lick, Near Zenith, Monroe Co, VA. He died on 14 May 1890 in Gap Mills, Monroe Co, WV. Married: Margaret Smith PERKINS.
17. Rachel WISEMAN daughter of Joseph WISEMAN and Elizabeth BATEMAN was born on 23 Apr 1790 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. She died on 07 Nov 1856 in Potts Creek, Monroe County, WV. Married: William M. BEAN.
19. Elizabeth TUCKWILLER daughter of John TUCKWILLER and Catherine RIFFE was born on 08 Nov 1779 in Greenbrier County, Virginia. She died on 28 Jul 1867 in Greenbrier County, Virginia. Married: Rev. Samuel PERKINS.
38. John TUCKWILLER son of Thomas TUCKWILLER and Sabina UNKNOWN was born in 1752 in Virginia. He died on 18 Feb 1832 in Rich Hollow, Greenbrier County, Virginia. Married: Catherine RIFFE.
76. Thomas TUCKWILLER. He died on 20 Oct 1774 in Shenandoah, Virginia. Married: Sabina UNKNOWN.
1. Cynthia Ann BEANE daughter of Walter Maxwell BEANE and Lois Velleda DREHER.
2. Walter Maxwell BEANE son of John Monroe BEAN and Mary Elizabeth FAUDREE. Married: Lois Velleda DREHER.
4. John Monroe BEAN son of William McHarvey BEAN and Margaret Smith PERKINS was born on 15 Dec 1866 in Cincinatti, Ohio. He died on 10 Apr 1954 in Waiteville, Monroe Co., WV. Married [3]: Mary Elizabeth FAUDREE.
8. William McHarvey BEAN son of William M. BEAN and Rachel WISEMAN was born on 26 Aug 1832 in Dropping Lick, Near Zenith, Monroe Co, VA. He died on 14 May 1890 in Gap Mills, Monroe Co, WV. Married: Margaret Smith PERKINS.
17. Rachel WISEMAN daughter of Joseph WISEMAN and Elizabeth BATEMAN was born on 23 Apr 1790 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. She died on 07 Nov 1856 in Potts Creek, Monroe County, WV. Married: William M. BEAN.
19. Elizabeth TUCKWILLER daughter of John TUCKWILLER and Catherine RIFFE was born on 08 Nov 1779 in Greenbrier County, Virginia. She died on 28 Jul 1867 in Greenbrier County, Virginia. Married: Rev. Samuel PERKINS.
38. John TUCKWILLER son of Thomas TUCKWILLER and Sabina UNKNOWN was born in 1752 in Virginia. He died on 18 Feb 1832 in Rich Hollow, Greenbrier County, Virginia. Married: Catherine RIFFE.
76. Thomas TUCKWILLER. He died on 20 Oct 1774 in Shenandoah, Virginia. Married: Sabina UNKNOWN.
Friday, February 19, 2010
256GB Dream Come True!
Gone are the days of wishing for a bigger flash drive!
The Data Traveler 310 USB flash drive offers a mind blowing 256 gigabytes of storage in a package the size of your pinky! Capable of holding 54 DVDs worth of data, the DT310 offers a transfew rate of 25 MB/sec (read) and 12MB/sec (write).
Chomping at the bit to own one? [Me too!]
This little baby will set you back a bit!
The MSRP is $1108.
Dare to dream gadget addicts!
Can you write..... Dear Santa,...?
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