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 Photographs, personal, stories, tagged Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, vacation, Molly Brown, Mark Twain, Billie Creek Village, Hannibal on July 22, 2008 | No Comments »
My family really doesn’t take vacations to exotic or even genealogical places. We go where family is located - the places we called home at one time. However, along the way we have periodically stopped to see a historical site or be tourists for awhile.
In the summer of 1994, I took a little over three [...]
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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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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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Back in the mid 1960’s during a reunion trip to Coshocton, my parents had discussed finding a house that my dad’s mother had grown up in (or was born in). I don’t remember which one. So we headed toward the country and rural areas and started looking for said house. Apparently my dad had been [...]
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Posted in Life and Death, tagged buggy accident, epilepsy, Fairborn, Indiana, Indiana School, Johnson, Madison County, Ohio, Stoney Creek on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Born on September 20, 1864 in Stoney Creek, a township of Madison County, Indiana, Katie Blazer, would barely remember her father. Frank Blazer died when she was just five years old leaving her mother to raise three sons and three daughters under the age of 14. Katie’s grandparents, John and Martha Goul, lived nearby and [...]
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I am in need of what books or articles to read that detail life in small Indiana towns in the early 1900s - specifically 1916-1921. I have TONS of letters that my grandparents wrote each other while they were courting (Easter 1916 - December 1916) and then letters my grandfather wrote to my grandmother while [...]
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