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Voices of Our Cousins
Your Guide to the Writings, Memoirs, Poetry and Essays 
Authored By Our Extended Minerd-Minard-Miner-Minor Family

With tens of thousands of lives represented in the extended family of ours', there are an equal number of voices, each of which has a story to tell. The authorship of memoirs and autobiographies is an outstanding way to let future generations know about your life experiences, and your memories of the lives and times of other loved ones who have gone on before us. 

This special page on our website is devoted to providing an outlet for those voices to express their views on a wide variety of topics. It contains a list of the writings that our cousins have entrusted to Minerd.com for publishing. It is arranged in alphabetical order by the authors' last names:

By Dorothy (Carson) Baber

The Story of Berniece Dora (Pelsma) Carson 

 By the late Laura (Brown) Barnum

Chills, Fever, Friends and Good Times

The "Run of 1889"

By Barbara (Boring) Bauer

The Immigrant Brothers: Meyndert and Carsten Fredericksen 
The Immigrants: Jacob and Anna Elisabethe Weber 
The Kochertal Party 

By Elaine (Monticue) Brawdy

Praying Billy (Rev. William M. Minerd)

By Melinda (Swope) Brooksher

Come Back to Pennsylvania! 

 
By Linda (Miner) Bryan

Lessons from the Hobo Express

The Raspberry Patch 

The Springhouse 

By the late Elizabeth Bryan-McCabe
(Edited by Aimee Walker-McCabe)

My Mother's Journal 

By Betty Jo (Workman) Canter

History of Clara Jane Freed and Edwin Thomas Thorpe 

A Four Generation Saga: The Story of Phoebe (Thorpe) Workman 

A 21 Story Salute 

By Erin S. Cleary

My Grandpa Albert Philip McCabe 

By the late Frieda (Wyandt) Everett

Report to the Class of 1921, Hiram College 

By Doris (Sands) Hawker

My Grandparents: A Memoir of Joseph W. and Sadie (Harbaugh) Ream
My Parents and My Childhood: A Memoir of Robert and Alma (Ream) Sands
Some Unusual Experiences in Life 

By Cassandra L. Holiday

Carol Adams: The Voices Never Heard 

By the late Nellie (Brown) Jones

The Big Flood of April 22, 1885 
The Great Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 

By Sharon (Sheldon) Kern

My Grandmother: Letitia (Harbaugh) Stoner 
Grandma Letitia's Personal "Things" 

By Aimee McCabe-Walker

Albert Philip McCabe 

Grandmother Blanche Minerd-McCabe 

By the late Armena (Cain) Miner-Marshall

A Conversation - Dec. 26, 1971 

By Mark A. Miner
Chew and Wilcocks: Influential Early Landowners in Somerset County, PA 
My Brush with History: The Day Ancient Voices Came Alive When I Met a Civil War Veteran's Daughter 
The Power of Memory - Smithfield, PA's "Celebrate the Centuries" Event 
One Fayette Family Yields Two Centuries of Achievements 

By the late Dr. Roy Sheppard Minerd

Keep Sweet! How the Lives of Philadelphia Orphan Boys and Their Teacher Were Forever Changed

By the late Hart Moore

Looking Backward: Memories of Gracious Revival, Held in the White Schoolhouse, January 1894, Conducted by the Rev. David E. Minerd

By Sandra Ammerman-Paser

A Memoir of Del and Ella May (Cornell) Ferguson - Pioneers of Near Kirksville, Missouri 

By Alan Rose

Eulogy for Dad - Albert J. Rose 

By Carol Smith

Papa's Gone Home 

By Christine (Minerd) Smith

The Lane 
The Galing Horns 
Eden - A Poem-Memoir of Ernest Earl Minerd 
Getting Lost 
Memory 
Tobacco Farm 

Chess Table 

By Ruth (Van Horn) Snyder

Edward J. Van Horn: A Memoir of Early Southern California Life 

By the late Earl T. Steiner

Grampa France, Michigan Center - A Memoir 
Beginning - A Memoir 
A Life's Resume - A Memoir 

By David Walker

Visits with "Uncle Ol" Farabee 

By the late James Melvin Younkin and 
his daughter, the late Diana (Younkin) Egan:

World War II Through a Porthole: A Four-Part Memoir of Wartime

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