Beautiful photos by Sue Armstrong of the Sanborn Cemetery north east of Bristol, New Hampshire – final resting place of several ancestors and their families.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Hockstadt Tombstone - Singapore
Tombstone of John and Rose Hockstadt in the Garden of Remembrance Cemetery, Singapore.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tombstones – It’s The Symbol Not The Stone
Not all families have the resources to buy tombstones for their beloved family members who pass away. They show their love by memorializing them using the resources available to them.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Children of Joseph and Nancy Hoggard
Joseph and Nancy Eldredge Hoggard lost six young children within ten years of each other. All are buried in the American Fork, Utah city cemetery.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Nathaniel Grigsby – Lincoln’s Friend
Nathaniel Grigsby was a dear friend of Abraham Lincoln.
In 1860, he was living in Norborne. He wrote to Lincoln and received an appointment as Republican Precinct Committee Man. He placed Lincoln's name on the 1860 ballot.
Read the rest of the story by Trish on Nathaniel’s Find-a-Grave memorial.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Wounded Knee
On December 29, 1890, troops of the U.S. 7th Cavalry massacred about 146 Lakota Sioux men, women and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. They were buried in a mass grave at the site of the massacre.
Technorati Tags: Native American,Wounded Knee
Monday, April 12, 2010
John Rowe Moyle 1808 - 1889
John Rowe Moyle was born in Wedron, Cornwall, England on 22 Feb 1808 and died in Alpine, Utah on 15 Jan 1889.
Well known as a stalwart in the Mormon faith, he exhibited fearless tenacity in managing pain as he walked the 30+ miles between Alpine and Salt Lake City each week to work on the Salt Lake Temple on a self-carved artificial leg.
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