Joseph J. Earthman Generations

07/03/2025

Is the Civil War really over?

On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s last attempt at breaking the Union ...

07/03/2025

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-3/battle-of-gettysburg-ends

On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s last attempt at breaking the Union ...

04/24/2025

On Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule.

04/24/2025

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-24/easter-rebellion-begins

On Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule.

03/21/2025

In the name of African American voting rights, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators in Alabama, led by Martin Luther King Jr., begin a historic march from Selma to Montgomery, the state’s capital.

03/21/2025

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/March-21/selma-to-montgomery-march-begins

In the name of African American voting rights, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators in Alabama, led by Martin Luther King Jr., begin a historic march from Selma to Montgomery, the state’s capital.

03/17/2025

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop and apostle of Ireland (and namesake for St. Patrick's Day) dies in Ireland.

03/13/2025

Czar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia since 1855, is killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary “People’s Will” group. The People’s Will, organized in 1879, employed terrorism and assassination in their attempt to overthrow Russia’s czarist a...

03/13/2025

A big part of a funeral or memorial is simply remembering the past.

Lest we forget.

Czar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia since 1855, is killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary “People’s Will” group. The People’s Will, organized in 1879, employed terrorism and assassination in their attempt to overthrow Russia’s czarist a...

12/30/2024

As we close out 2024, I'd like to bid Godspeed to my Uncles:
Jim Earthman (11/28/2024),
Bob Earthman (8/26/2024),
Michael Earthman (3/17/2024), and
Don Earthman (5/29/2024)

All pictured below in an Earthman Funerals promotional brochure, 1957! Old school Houston!