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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I was first introduced to the concept of “swimming” when I was just a wee little one. Here’s a bathing suit, there’s the water, stick your feet in. Something like that. As a young child I had various experiences with water. I had a small, child’s pool that during the summer Mom and Dad filled [...]
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As a young child growing up in a “growing-out-of-a-rural-farmland-township” in Southwestern Ohio, my parents owned a home on a half-acre lot. We didn’t have privacy fences or alarm systems. We knew every one of our neighbors on our street, some of them behind us, and knew everything about them. Our township had once been rural [...]
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Posted in Blogging, tagged genealogy, Ohio on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I just came across the Ohio Genealogy Blog - probably have seen it before. However, I wanted to provide the link here - just in case you would like to go digging around.
http://genealogyohio.blogspot.com/
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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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Most people outside of East Central Ohio probably have never heard of Roscoe Village. Located in Tuscarawas Township, Coshocton City, Coshocton County, Ohio, it sits off of the Ohio and Erie Canal. Coshocton County was formed from the Muskingum and Tuscarawas counties in December 1810 and takes its name from the Delaware Indian word [...]
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