Posts Tagged Tombstone Tuesday
Tombstone Tuesday: James and Maud Butler
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Tombstone Tuesday on March 9th, 2010
James Benjamin Butler and Maud Whitener were my great-grandparents. Jim was born November 24, 1880 in Murray County, Georgia. He was a farmer and later the sheriff of Murray County. He died November 28, 1944.
Maud was born in August 27, 1885 in Murray County, Georgia. She died April 7,… Read the rest
Weekly Updates for 2010-01-06
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in What's New on January 6th, 2010
- RT @bibliotraveler: Good article on finding South Carolina marriage records, http://tinyurl.com/scmarr #genealogy #
- RT @LCAfricana: RT @jackrobinson181: @geneabloggers_A little different type of images for Tombstone Tueday: http://tinyurl.com/mkcg7t #
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Tombstone Tuesday: Mariah Langston Roberts
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Tombstone Tuesday on November 24th, 2009
Mariah Langston was my 3-x great-grandmother. She was born February 25, 1833[1] in Sevier County, Tennessee[2]. She married Monteville Roberts July 18, 1852 in Bradley County, Tennessee2. They lived in Hamilton County, Tennessee[3], just across the Georgia state line during their early marriage.
Mariah is… Read the rest
Tombstone Tuesday – Joseph Tucker
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Tombstone Tuesday on October 13th, 2009
Joseph Tucker was my 4x-great uncle. His parents were C. B. and Rosamund Tucker and his sister, my 3x-great-grandmother, was Elizabeth Tucker.
He was born and died on May 4, 1833. Elizabeth was born… Read the rest
Tombstone Tuesday – James Benjamin Butler
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Tombstone Tuesday on August 4th, 2009
James Benjamin Butler was my great-grandfather. He died in 1944. This footstone marks his grave in the Butler family plot in Ramsey Cemetery. He was born in 1880 in Murray County, GA and lived there most of his life, except for a few years, when he and… Read the rest
Tombstone Tuesday – James and Elizabeth Brookshire
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Tombstone Tuesday on July 14th, 2009
James Brookshire and Elizabeth Tilley are my 4x-great-grandparents. James was born March 10, 1799 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Elizabeth was born in 1810, also in Wilkes County. They were married on August 21, 1827. They moved to Union County, Georgia between 1830… Read the rest
Tombstone Tuesday – Henry Weidner
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Tombstone Tuesday on March 31st, 2009
Henry Weidner was my 6x-great-grandfather. He was born in Germany, but grew up in Pennsylvania, after immigrating with his family. He moved to North Carolina in 1750 and established the town of Hickory. He was a wealthy landowner and a patriot in the American Revolution. … Read the rest
Tombstone Tuesday – Henry Dellinger
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Tombstone Tuesday on March 17th, 2009
Henry Dellinger was my 6x-great-grandfather. He immigrated from Germany as a young boy, along with his father, and eventually settled in Lincoln County, North Carolina, where he died.
The inscription on the stone reads:
Henry
Dellinger
Died
Feb 15,… Read the rest
Tombstone Tuesday – Elizabeth Tucker Ellis
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Tombstone Tuesday on March 3rd, 2009
My last Tombstone Tuesday post was about Elijah Ellis. Today’s post is about his wife, Elizabeth Tucker, my three-times great-grandmother. She was born in Surry County, North Carolina, but spent most of her… Read the rest
Tombstone Tuesday – Elijah M. Ellis
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Tombstone Tuesday on February 17th, 2009
Elijah Marion Ellis was my three-times great-grandfather. He and his wife, Elizabeth McKinney Tucker, had four children. His life was marked by tragedy; he lost his sight to typhoid fever at the age of 32 and was dead ten years later at the age of… Read the rest
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