Tombstone Tuesday – Enos Bennett

  Enos Bennett was my great-grandfather.  He was born in Russell County, Kentucky on 14 Sept, 1885 to Silas Jackson Bennett and Mary Elizabeth Rumbo.  He spent some time in Oregon around 1915, but returned to Russell County and married Lelar George on 4 Mar. 1917.  After Lelar passed away in 1927, he married Ledora Helen [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – Lelar Bennett

  Lelar (George) Bennett was my great-grandmother.  She was born on Dec. 25, 1896 in Russell County, Kentucky.  Her parents were William George and Mary Elizabeth Stephens.  She married Enos Bennett in Russell County on March 4, 1917.  She had 4 children, including my grandmother, Vesper Mary Bennett, before she passed away from tuberculosis on [...]

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Andrew Dabelstein family – Tombstone Tuesday

After my family research trip to Chicago this week-end, I have most of the blanks in the Andrew Dabelstein group sheet filled in. I need 1 date of death for a son and confirmation of the marriage guess that I have made (and the parents of Andrew or his wife, Alvina Carsten).  A combination of church records on microfilm from [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – George VonLanken

George VonLanken was born Apr. 19, 1892 in Douglas County, Illinois.  He was the 5th child of Heinrich VonLanken and Maria Heit.  Heinrich (Henry) had come to America at the age of 12 and moved with his family directly to Douglas County. George married Anna Marie Klink on Jan 12, 1911 in Douglas County and [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – John Herscher

John Herscher was born in Vogelgrun, Alsace France on 24 May, 1842.  John and his mother, Catherine, arrived in the US (as well as 2 of his 3 siblings) around 1852. One brother, Frederick,  came 2 years later.  Interestingly, John’s father and step-father were both named Andreas Herrscher (which made for interesting research puzzles!) John [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – Oliver and Mintie Smith

  These are my great-grandparents – my grandfather’s parents.  They spent most of their lives in Russell County, Kentucky, but moved to Franklin, Indiana around 1946.  They are buried in the cemetery of First Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Franklin. Mintie was the daughter of Joseph Scott and Nancy Jain Gilpin – the subject of [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday: Vesper Smith

Vesper Smith was my maternal grandmother.  She was born in Russell County, Kentucky in 1918 and died in Johnson County, Indiana in 1999. My grandmother had a difficult life.  When she was 8 years old, she peeked around the corner of the bedroom and watched as her mother passed away from tuberculosis.  She became a mother to her 2 younger [...]

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