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A little town in Pennsylvania…

Posted in Civil War, cemeteries on November 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On a cold, blustery day in November, President Abraham Lincoln was asked to make a few comments at the dedication ceremony for a new cemetery. And possibly the most eloquent document in our country’s history was born…
Gettysburg, Penn., Nov 19, 1863:
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new [...]

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Introducing….

Posted in blogs, cemeteries on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

(drum roll, please!)…The Graveyard Rabbit of Cowtown!
Everything “cemetery” in or around Fort Worth, Texas.
Welcome!

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I learned something today

Posted in cemeteries, volunteering, tagged on June 10, 2008 | Comments Off

In reading Ken’s post about a couple of ancestors that he found in the Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 database at FamilySearch Record Search, I learned that requests for grave and headstone photographs can be made at Find A Grave. I have been to this site a few times, and have found a few folks that I [...]

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So sad

Posted in cemeteries, research sites, tagged , , on May 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I was reading a post at Beyond Fiction, in which Ken discussed finding the death records at FamilySearch Labs’ Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 database of a set of twins born to his paternal grandmother in 1927. This inspired me to go back to the database to look for 2 infants that I knew to be [...]

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The cemeteries are complete!

Posted in cemeteries on April 30, 2008 | Comments Off

Tonight I finished uploading the Chatt-Jessie Cemetery info & images, and double-checked both Chatt-Jessie and Graham Mason Cemeteries for accuracy.

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Those prolific Kennedys…

Posted in cemeteries, web design, tagged , on April 28, 2008 | Comments Off

…have kept me busy for several weeks! I am happy to say that I have “completed” the research of the family of John Kennedy of Sumter County, Alabama. This afternoon I added the last references and sources to my Family Tree Maker database, and have uploaded a current Outline Descendant Report for John Kennedy and [...]

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One cemetery is up

Posted in cemeteries, tagged , on April 18, 2008 | Comments Off

The Graham-Mason Cemetery photos and information are now available on the Cemeteries page. That was the smaller of the two cemeteries in Hill County, Texas that I have inventoried, with only 22 identified graves. Jennie Maragert Melton, the wife of my great-granduncle Francis Lee Turner, and probably her infant son Claude are buried here.

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