On the Trail of Sidney O'Brien: An Inquiry into Her Family and Status - Was She a Slave or Servant of the Gettys Family in Gettysburg? Was Her Daughter, Getty Ann, a Descendant of James Gettys?

• Main Author: Christ, Elwood W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College 1999
• Subjects: Adams County Historical Society; ACHS; Adams County; Pennsylvania History; Slavery; Slave; Servant; African American Studies; Cultural History; History; United States History; Women's History; Arctic; Tennyson
• Online Access: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ach/vol5/iss1/4; https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=ach

Like many Decembers in the greater Adams county area, the beginning of the winter usually is a collage of intermittent warm spells spliced amongst Arctic days with cold Canadian northwest winds. Amid the hoopla, as Gettysburgians prepared for the 1873 Christmas holidays during the week between the 1...