History Blog 

Look at this historic treasure: Del Anderson of Ogden, Utah, is a direct descendant of Charles Curts, a Hannibal riverboat pilot and...

Charles W. Curts’ last home, (see picture at right) where he breathed his last breath, and where his daughter Josephine Ayers continued...

I'm looking for a picture of a house that was located at 116 S. Fourth Street in Hannibal. It was still occupied in 1946, but was torn...

Included with the packet of Fritz/Curts family photos sent back to Hannibal by descendant Delmas L. Anderson is this circa 1903 photo of...

Robert A. Curts, undertaker and embalmer, stands in front of his business at 327 Broadway, Hannibal, Mo., circa 1903. Curts, son of...

​ Evans Fritz was first funeral home owner in the long lineage of the current Smith Funeral Home & Chapel in Hannibal. This picture is...

As I write this, a packet of old, Hannibal-based photos is en route from Idaho to my front door. Communications started with a man who...

Robert A. Curts, in a photo accompanying his biography in "Mirror of Hannibal." Note that his teeth are visible when he's smiling....