It's the birthday of...

Abe Lincoln in Hardin County, Kentucky, in 1809.

Charles Darwin, born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (1809).

James Field Smathers in1888,was born near Valley Spring, Texas, who patented the electric typwriter in 1913...it took a few years before IBM started making them, and certainly a few more before I started using them thankfully!

Elizabeth Bettie Bass Rogers, born in 1860 in Old Waverly, San Jacinto County, Texas, my great grandmother on my father's side.  She was widowed at 19 and had to raise her 3 year old and her 3 month old on her own.  Within a few years she moved to the big city and bright lights of Galveston, TX, which was a big port city at the time. She lived to be 64 years old.