Monthly Archives: June 2018

For this daughter of mine was dead and has come to life again.  She was lost and has been found.  Adapted from Luke 15:24 In 1801 a prominent man named Thomas McClure moved his family, which consisted of himself, his wife, two sons, four daughters, and eleven-year old Elizabeth Ann Corrigan from the Nittany Valley in Pennsylvania to a sparse settlement a few miles south of Curwensville.  Elizabeth had been indentured to the McClure family by her natural father David…..

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The solemn, haunting melody of “Taps” is often played by a single bugle at the conclusion of funerals for military personnel who have served honorably in America’s armed forces. It is used on Memorial Day to commemorate the service of those who have fallen in battle to win and protect America’s freedom. It also marks the end of a day at American military bases throughout the world. “Taps” in its present form was composed in July, 1862 by Union Army…..

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