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Separating the Sheep From the Goats: Something to Chew on at Decatur Cemetery | Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
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Cemeteries I Have Visited. Adventures in Cemetery Hopping. Separating the Sheep From the Goats: Something to Chew on at Decatur Cemetery. Asymp; 4 Comments. First, I’d like to apologize for being absent from the blog for over a month. Due to a move into a new home across town, I had to put my cemetery hopping and blog writing activities on hold for a while. I’m still unpacking boxes but for the most part, we’re settled in. But it wasn’t until recently that I actually saw sheep on the premises. Before you...
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Memorial Day 2015: Revisiting the Life of Lance Corporal Jerry Davis | Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
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Cemeteries I Have Visited. Adventures in Cemetery Hopping. Memorial Day 2015: Revisiting the Life of Lance Corporal Jerry Davis. Asymp; 5 Comments. Those of you who’ve followed my blog for a while may remember one of my first blog posts about a young soldier who was killed in action during the Vietnam War. In honor of Memorial Day, I want to revisit that post and add some things I have since learned about Jerry Davis since I wrote it. Stephen Smith, a Tucker resident who served for two years in Vietnam a...
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A Place of Rest for All: Exploring Bohemian National Cemetery | Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
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Cemeteries I Have Visited. Adventures in Cemetery Hopping. A Place of Rest for All: Exploring Bohemian National Cemetery. Asymp; 2 Comments. Come to me, all. Who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 8212; Matthew 11:28. They say death is the great equalizer. But in the cemetery, that hasn’t been the case in centuries past. Well, their final home was often a nameless patch of earth. BNC was created as a result of a desire to break down the barriers of class and religion. In 1877, a Cat...
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Only the River Remains: Remembering the S.S. Eastland | Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
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Cemeteries I Have Visited. Adventures in Cemetery Hopping. Only the River Remains: Remembering the S.S. Eastland. Asymp; 1 Comment. 8220;People were struggling in the water, clustered so thickly that they literally covered the surface of the river. A few were swimming; the rest were floundering about, some clinging to a little raft…others clutching at anything they could reach at bits of wood, at each other, grabbing each other, pulling each other down, and screaming! 8212; Eastland: A New Musical. The E...
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St.Peters | Genealogy Sisters
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Two sisters sharing our genealogical research and family stories. Newark, NJ Maps. The Marriage of John Doran and Elizabeth Campbell, in Belfast, Ireland – 1900. August 8, 2015. Full size is 550 × 400. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Family Lines of Slaves: The Missing Page - Into the Briar Patch: A Family Memoir
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Subscribe to RSS Feed. Into the Briar Patch: A Family Memoir. 126; Mariann S. Regan's Blog ~. Family Lines of Slaves: The Missing Page. This blog post is an addendum to the preceding five posts. There I’ve tried to piece together probable family lines of enslaved people, using the Negro’s Ages journal kept by my 1. Great-grandfathers in 1800s South Carolina. This journal listed names and birth dates of children under the name of each mother. Children No. 7. Was born July 13. Was born Aug 30. Notice the h...
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Photos! - The Ancestor Hunt
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An old proverb states that "the eyes are the windows into the soul." A genealogy corollary is that "a photo is a window into the lives of your ancestors.". It is important to a complete research that one attempts to understand the environment that surrounds our ancestors' lives if one wants to truly appreciate what they went through. So not only are portraits and candid photos important, but photos of their surroundings can be very useful to your genealogy research. So where can they be found? Maureen is...
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Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery: A Fount of Blessing Amid the Bustle | Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
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Cemeteries I Have Visited. Adventures in Cemetery Hopping. Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery: A Fount of Blessing Amid the Bustle. Asymp; 8 Comments. Come Thou Fount of every blessing. Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;. Streams of mercy, never ceasing,. Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet,. Sung by flaming tongues above. I’m fixed upon it,. Mount of God’s unchanging love. Here I raise my Ebenezer;. Hither by Thy help I’m come;. And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,. Over ...
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Hidden Pioneers: Dunwoody’s Stephen Martin Cemetery | Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
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Cemeteries I Have Visited. Adventures in Cemetery Hopping. Hidden Pioneers: Dunwoody’s Stephen Martin Cemetery. Asymp; 4 Comments. A few weeks ago, I told you about how the Crowley Cemetery became the Crowley Mausoleum that’s located in the parking lot of the former Columbia/Avondale Mall (land now occupied by a Walmart). Today I’m going to share about another family cemetery that also ended up surrounded by commercial development. But this one has a somewhat happier ending. Stephen Martin Cemetery is no...