Open the book ↗His words. Our history. Turn the page.THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY
He wrote it down.
She kept it alive.
Joseph H. Sowder lived through a nation’s transformation. A Confederate soldier, pioneer, public servant, and diarist, he recorded the events that shaped his world — war and faith, family and migration, loss and renewal.
His great-granddaughter, Clara Cammack Park, devoted her later years to transcribing his diaries. Her work preserved a life in its everyday details, and gave future generations a way to know the man behind the name.
Now, that family record becomes a story we can watch together.
Read the family book ↗The complete book · 314 pages · An interactive flipbook
J. H. SowderA LIFE REMEMBERED · 1839–1923