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Memoirs on Minerd.com
Your Guide to the "Voices of Our Family" -- Memoirs and Essays 
Authored by Our Extended Minerd-Minard-Miner-Minor Cousins

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 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 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 

By Erin S. Cleary:

My Grandpa Albert Philip McCabe 

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

By Ruth (Van Horn) Snyder:

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

By 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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