Posted in Life and Death, stories, tagged Anderson County, Blazer, Dauphin County, genealogy, Given, Goul, Indiana, Jackson County, Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Wyandotte County on July 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Before I get into the “meat” of this post, let me say that for the last few days I’ve been frantically searching for the text of this. I knew I had written it, searched all through this blog looking for it, searched through my document files on my hard drive in case I’d written it [...]
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Posted in Carnival of Genealogy, Life and Death, Photographs, tagged genealogy, Carnival of Genealogy, Amore, Johnson, CoG, Blazer, Wilt, Werts, Stern, Goul, age on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The theme for the 52nd Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is AGE. As family historians, we take time to carefully mark the birthdates of our forebearers. We print out family tree charts including this all-important data. We make it a point to note at what age family members have married, had children and passed [...]
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Posted in Life and Death, Photographs, tagged cemetery, genealogy, grave, headstones, Indiana, Ohio, Oregon, Washington on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been very lucky to be the recipient of old photos - a few prior to the 1900s, many from the early 1900s - 1950s and later. My family has an affinity for snapping photos of graves and headstones - which is like a windfall for me - especially when all the pertinent information is [...]
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Please go to Destination: Austin Family to read the 51st Carnival of Genealogy post. This Carnival was hosted by Thomas MacEntee. Thanks, Thomas! The Carnival was a tribute to Independence Day with the topic: “Independent Spirit. There are so many great posts about men and women who took a different path than others. They set [...]
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With the approaching Independence Day holiday, I found myself wondering how many folks in my family tree were married on July 4th or some other holiday.
CHRISTMAS DAY - 13
Georg Adams & Christine Werts - 1814
Eleazer House & Abigail Mosely - 1782
Ephraim Swingle & Dolly Nicholson - 1868
Percy Tuttle & Julia House - 1906
Evans Wortman & [...]
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The topic for this edition of Carnival of Genealogy is:
INDEPENDENT! Do you have a relative who was feisty, spoke their own mind, was a bit of a free spirit? Anyone who most people might consider a “nut” on the family tree but you know they really just followed a “different tune?”
I’ve spent quite a [...]
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Posted in Life and Death, Photographs, stories, tagged Clawson, Delaware County, divorce, genealogy, Indiana, marriage, Photographs, Wilt on June 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the earliest divorces I found - one that would also impact my life - was that of my great-grandparents. Joseph Napolean Wilt and Martha Jane Stern were married in Delaware County, Indiana on September 10, 1890. Six children were born to this family - one son was either stillborn or died shortly thereafter. [...]
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In an earlier post, I wrote about How Many Times Have They Been Married. This post will list some of the lengthy marriages I’ve discovered in my family tree.
Grandparents
Glen Johnson and Vesta Wilt - 67 years
Lloyd Amore and Ella House - 43 years.
Uncles and Aunts
Glen Johnson Jr. and Mary Van Tuyl - 61 years
Gail Amore and Margaret White [...]
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Thanks, Jessica & Randy, for the idea for this post! Please go to Jessica’s Genejournal Blog and read How Many Times Have My Ancestors Been Married? to see what Jessica discovered or to Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings Blog to read Who Has Been Married the Most Times?. After reading these posts, I thought that I would [...]
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This is the only picture I have of both of my grandmothers together and not with anyone else. The lady on the left is my maternal grandmother, Vesta Christina Wilt Johnson. I knew her as Nana. Grandma Amore (Ella Marie House) passed away fifteen years before I was born. In fact I don’t even know [...]
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