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Walter Conrad Collins was a 9-year-old American boy who went missing in 1928. Five months after Walter went missing, a different boy claimed he was Walter. When Walter's mother Christine Collins refused to believe this claim and insisted the boy was not her son, she was committed to a mental hospital for ten days until the impostor confessed.
The crew's remains were eventually found, and all were buried at Charleroi Communal Cemetery. [135] Killed in action Unknown 1942 Peter Turnbull: 25 Territory of New Guinea, Australia (modern-day Papua New Guinea) Turnbull was an Australian fighter ace of World War II credited with twelve aerial victories. On 27 August 1942, he was patrolling ...
Henry Gault, from whom the site takes its name, put together a 250-acre farm in the Buttermilk Creek Valley, starting in 1904. At some point in the early 20th century he found extra income as an informant for early archaeological explorations in Central Texas working with the first professional archaeologist in Texas, J.E. Pearce, as well as avocational archaeologists (Alex Dienst, Kenneth ...
The original investigators believed that at least 25 people were buried at Baumeister’s 18-acre (7.3-hectare) Fox Hollow Farm estate in Westfield, based on evidence that included 10,000 bones ...
Gordon Stewart Northcott was born in Bladworth, Saskatchewan, Canada and raised in British Columbia.He moved to Los Angeles, California with his parents in 1924. Two years later, at the age of 19, Northcott asked his father to purchase a plot of land in the community of Wineville, located in Riverside County, where he built a chicken ranch and a house with the help of his father and his nephew ...
On this date in Texas history, Jack Collins recorded one of his family's many highlights for the Longhorns.
The Buttermilk Creek complex found at the Debra L. Friedkin Paleo-Indian archaeological site in Bell County, Texas, has provided archaeological evidence of a human presence in the Americas that pre-dates the Clovis peoples, who until recently were thought to be the first humans to explore and settle North America.
But some of their bones were left behind; by the time the 1999 excavation recovered them, it was unclear to whom they belonged. Now, nearly 150 years later, the identities of those remains have ...