About the Rock County (and Related) Stories
The STORIES web page offers links to family and historical stories of Rock County Residents and their ancestors. RCGS invites members to submit authentic (and where possible, well-documented) stories from their family to the RCGS webmaster with the subject line: Rock County Family Story.
Civil War Stories of RCGS Members' Ancestors
- Sgt. John Valentine Artlip, story by Ken & Lois Artlip
- Pvt. Thomas Turner Andersonville POW, story by Pat Cameron
- Eager Family in the Civil War, ancestors of Jennifer Eager-Ehle
- Sgt, Ira A. Bradford, biography by David Bradford
- Cpl. Frank Barier, 11-Year-Old, Boy Civil War Veteran, Beloit Daily News
- James A. Perry, Last Surviving Member of Beloit GAR Post, Sheila Schoenfeld
- Cyclone Wreaks Havoc in Rock County, 11 November 1911, Janesville Daily Gazette, 13 Nov 1911
- The Boy Who Hatched a Goose Egg, 1911 - Whitewater Register Newspaper, April 14, 1911, p. 1
- The Calamitous Fire at the Irish Public Record Office at the Four Courts Campus, Dublin, 1922, from the Irish Time, by Ronan McGreevy, Thu Jun 30 2022
- 1956 Summer Olympics - The Great Sydney Olympic Torch Hoax, from historical records
- The Story of Esther (Bacon) Doud in Western Massachusetts, 1790, by Ruth E. Anderson
- September 17, 1777, My day, Rebekah Langdon, a semi-historical account, by Ruth E. Anderson
- Biography of Ira A. Bradford (1820-1890), by David W. Bradford
- The Attack on the Rowlandson Garrison, by Jennifer Eager-Ehle (reprint with permission of author and publisher, American Ancestors, Fall 2014, 41-45)