The further back I get in my family’s history, the harder it gets to find a headstone for an ancestor. This week I had a total of two to choose from for my headstone of the week. My 4th great grandfather, Samuel Leader is my choice this week. As you enter Marietta you see it. [...]
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Linda’s Headstone of the Week; Week #5
Posted in Cemeteries, Graveyards, Headstone, tagged Cemetery, Headstone, Marietta Pennsylvania, Samuel Leader, Union Meeting House on January 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Linda’s Headstone of the Week; Week #4
Posted in Cemeteries, Graveyards, Headstone, tagged Cemetery, Headstone, Joseph Britton Carvell, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, Snyder County Pennsylvania, Thompsontown on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My selection for headstone of the week is Joseph Britton Carvell, my great-great-great grandfather. He is buried in cemetery at Otterbein United Methodist Church in East Salem, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, next to his 2nd wife, Mary Hile Carvell. Born on 1 February 1821 in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, he was the first son out of 14 [...]
Linda’s Headstone of the Week: Week #3
Posted in Biography, Cemeteries, Graveyards, Headstone, tagged Bailey Iron Works, Chancellorsville, Ephraim H. Niess, Harrisburg, Headstone of the Week, Niess, Pennsylvania on January 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In keeping with the theme (and it wasn’t really a theme, it just kinda happened) my headstone of the week belongs to one of my great-great-grandfathers. Picking just one was the hard thing this week! I had a couple of great candidates to pick from! Which one should I pick? My great grandmother’s father? He [...]
Linda’s Headstone of the Week #2
Posted in Biography, Cemeteries, Graveyards, Headstone, tagged Arbuckle California, California, Cemetery, Cortina Colusa California, Gold Rush California, Headstone, Sacramento, San Francisco, von Breyman on January 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Finding a candidate for my “Headstone of the Week” isn’t hard for me. I have literally thousands of headstone pictures in my database. Narrowing it down to just one is what is hard! This week, I decided on another Grandfather ~ a Great-Grandfather, this time!William Adolphus George von Breyman was born in Harburg, Hanover, Germany in [...]
Headstone of the Week, Week #1
Posted in Cemeteries, Graveyards, Headstone, tagged Arlington National Cemetery, Washington D.C., William F. Sherman on January 2, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Since we visited Arlington National Cemetery for Christmas, my first headstone of the week is one I specifically went to first ~ that of my grandfather. Interestingly enough, I knew exactly where it was, even though it had been a number of years since I’d been there. (over 10 to be exact!)William Francis Sherman, II [...]
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