Obituary--Mrs. May C. Tucker
Most of the obituaries I have shared on this blog are rather lengthy. Let's face it. The fun is usually in all the details. But even when the obituary is a separate news article, it can be a very...
View ArticleTombstone Tuesday--Area Dignitaries
Well, okay, maybe dignitaries is pushing it some. But I found it interesting how many family names in Holton Oakwood Cemetery were of citizens prominent enough to have area roads named after them in...
View ArticleObituary: Patrick Bayle
Just time for a quick post today. This obituary has me puzzled a bit. It is a Hesperia area death, but the font or something leads me to believe this obituary was not published in the Fremont Times...
View ArticleTombstone Tuesday: A Rural Scene at Clark
One of the things I like best about Clark cemetery is the woodsy feeling, even though it is near two well used roads. Clark cemetery is located on 48th Street, a main road into Fremont. And just west...
View ArticleObituary--Miss Gertrude Lubbers
Every once in a while, an obituary that I find is quite unusual. The reasons are always different, but there is something that really catches my eye. It is also a "two-fer" with two articles about the...
View ArticleTombstone Tuesday--Buried Tombstones
With the big news yesterday about the confirming that King Richard III's remains had been found under the pavement of a parking lot, it reminded me of some our our local burials that are also hidden....
View ArticleObituary: Isaac Branstrom
I had pulled this obituary out to post Thursday, but bad weather was approaching and then we were closed here at the history center due to a snow storm. (If local closes, we are officially closed.)...
View ArticleDon't Believe Everything You Read--A Belated Tombstone Tuesday
Transcriptions can be deceiving. Yeah, I know, hard to believe isn't it.But as most genealogists know, occasionally what you see written down must be taken with a grain of salt,Case in in point: My...
View ArticleObituary--Tjerk Veenstra
At first I was going to wait until later to post this obituary, since I had posted another obituary just last week from the same issue of the Fremont TimesIndicator. But when I got a better look at...
View ArticleTombstone Tuesday--Jonathan Stiver
I have shared my GGGrandpa's stone before, in Copmish cemetery in northern lower Michigan. Jonathan Stiver is the last of my information on that line.I recently downloaded the Ancestry app on my iPad...
View ArticleObituary: Risolia Spagnuolo Caruso
I simply had to share this obituary. It was one I had pulled to use, and forgotten about it. But her husband's confectionery store is the building where our history is currently located. From the 6...
View ArticleTombstone (Belated)Tuesday--Buried Stones
Some of the stones of my Gilberts are large and very easily read. Such as this stone at the end of my row of two Great-Great-Grandparents, two Great-Grandparents and a great aunt. It looks pretty...
View ArticleTombstone Tuesday--Oh, Allens
Several years ago, I went with my crazy aunt Glenna to go cemetery crawling. She was showing me some of the Kent County, Michigan Allen graves. We search several cemeteries that day. I had armed...
View ArticleObituary--Joseph Cosens
I first picked this obituary because I believe I attended school with one of his descendants. (It doesn't take much to distract me.) But I rather enjoyed the fact that a day later there was another...
View ArticleTombstone Tuesday--
Chilly morning today. Our furnace was not working for a while and our temperature here in the history center was down to 56 degrees when I got here.While the cold is making typing hard, I thought this...
View ArticleObiturary--Amos F. Bacon
I love a good obituary, and after reading Eastman's link to one of the best obituaries ever, I feel this isn't on the same level, but nonetheless, full of information. Even if this isn't as...
View ArticleTombstone Tuesday: Fancy Stone of Lulu Utley
While scanning pictures of cemeteries, I was struck by this fancy stone. Lulu, daughter of W. S. and L. B. Utley apparently died in 1885. This lovely stone is located in Everett-Big Prairie Cemetery...
View ArticleObituary--Silas A. Harris
This obituary is another of our area Civil War veterans. It is another of those who just amaze me by how much they traveled in this era in the last half of the 19th century. This particular obituary...
View ArticleTombestone Tuesday--Flat Stones
A marble slab. Surely that is the iconic image of a tombstone. But there is nothing simple about those marble slabs. This row of slabs are found in Everett-Big Prairie cemetery, also know as...
View ArticleTombstone Tuesday--Myrtle Gilbert Schermerhorn
The line of stones that I have talked about before, with my great- and great-great-grandparents. Those darn flat stones that are sunk level with the surrounding ground. The fifth in the row of five...
View ArticleObituary: Myrtle Gilbert Schermerhorn, Revisited
Last time I showed the grave of my grand aunt Myrtle. In the picture below she is the oldest daughter, on the left. My grandpa Leon is the oldest boy, on the right. Of course I never knew her, but I am...
View ArticleTombstone Tuesday--Don't Believe Everything You See
My paternal grandpa died before I was born. His stone is a joint stone with grandma's in Newaygo County's Clark Cemetery.It is a nice upright wedge shaped stone. It is located near the drive, but not...
View ArticleObituary: Delva Carol Allen
I shared the stone and some pictures of Grandpa Delva on Tuesday. This is his obituary that appeared in the local paper. Dying at the end of World War II, two of his sons were still in the service....
View ArticleTombstone Tuesday--Omar Allen
Yup, another one from my family. GGrandpa Omar was the father of Delva, featured last week. His stone is in Alton cemetery, in Vergennes township, Kent county, Michigan. It is a beautiful old...
View ArticleObituary--Carrie Belle Ford Cross Allen
Today's obituary is for my double great grandmother. Why double? She was married to both my paternal great-grandfathers. After divorcing her first husband, she married her second, whose son by a...
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