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.

• Cyclone Wreaks Havoc in Rock County, 11 November 1911, Janesville Daily Gazette, 13 Nov 1911
• 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 Boy Who Hatched a Goose Egg, 1911 - Whitewater Register Newspaper, April 14, 1911, p. 1
  
• The Attack on the Rowlandson Garrison, by Jennifer Eager-Ehle (reprint with permission of author and publisher, American Ancestors, Fall 2014, 41-45)
• 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