On May 28, 1859, a convention of slaveholders was held at The Frederick County Courthouse to select delegates to the state convention to be held in Baltimore on June 8. On May 28, 1869, George Truman was hanged at the jail on West South Street in Frederick for the murder of an unidentified man on January 30, 1869, near Point of Rocks. While never fully identified, the murder victim is thought to have been a Jewish peddler. On May 28, 1888, a fire and explosion, caused by the ignition of gasoline fumes, destroyed Charles Zeller's store at South and Market streets in Frederick. Thirty-one members of the United Fire Company were injured battling the subsequent fire. Most were cut by flying glass. If anyone can add information to these History Moments, or would like to suggest an item for another calendar day, please contact me privately. John W. Ashbury (wasps65@earthlink.net)

John, I wanted to personally thank you once again your taking the time and effort to continually post these History Moments for everyone's use. I have found several items of personal interested and numerous other items of general interest and I wam sure many others have as well. Thank you again for this and have a great Memorial Day! Regards, Bob Wissinger Perrysburg, Ohio Researching the Wissinger's of Cambria Co., Pa., Maryland and Germany http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bobwiss -----Original Message----- From: John Ashbury [mailto:wasps65@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 6:25 AM To: MDFREDER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MDFR] History Moment - 5-28-06 On May 28, 1859, a convention of slaveholders was held at The Frederick County Courthouse to select delegates to the state convention to be held in Baltimore on June 8. On May 28, 1869, George Truman was hanged at the jail on West South Street in Frederick for the murder of an unidentified man on January 30, 1869, near Point of Rocks. While never fully identified, the murder victim is thought to have been a Jewish peddler. On May 28, 1888, a fire and explosion, caused by the ignition of gasoline fumes, destroyed Charles Zeller's store at South and Market streets in Frederick. Thirty-one members of the United Fire Company were injured battling the subsequent fire. Most were cut by flying glass. If anyone can add information to these History Moments, or would like to suggest an item for another calendar day, please contact me privately. John W. Ashbury (wasps65@earthlink.net) ==== MDFREDER Mailing List ==== * * Visit the MID MARYLAND ROOTS Website * * http://midmdroots.com/ Court Records, Cemetery Inscriptions, Lookups and Queries! __________________________________________________________ Message transport security by GatewayDefender.com 6:25:47 AM ET - 5/28/2006 -------------------------------------------- My mailbox is spam-free with ChoiceMail, the leader in personal and corporate anti-spam solutions. Download your free copy of ChoiceMail from www.digiportal.com