August 2010 Archives - iPentimento | Genealogy and History

Daniel W. Ranslow Obituary 1981

August 31, 2010 By Carol Wilkerson

I’m not going to hide it, I’m blatantly trying to get some of our family members interested in visiting this blog. I doubt that any of them will find it tiresome though, because this is their family and I am sharing documentation and history with them. Visitors, as usual, please click on the image until [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – Clinton Iowa War Memorials

August 31, 2010 By Carol Wilkerson

Jim’s home town of Clinton, Iowa has a very nice display of war memorials for the most recent wars: Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean and Vietnam. The Civil War era memorial is for William B. Mayes who enlisted in DeWitt, Iowa and was born in Ohio. He was a Medal of Honor Recipient and was [...]

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1932 Marriage License – John Louis Sechrest and Ruth Williams

August 26, 2010 By Carol Wilkerson

I was doing a little research for Jim’s cousin Teresa this week for her Sechrest family branch. Teresa was previously married to Ed Sechrest and she is currently trying to fill in the blanks in her family tree for her son and his family. The information she emailed to me said that she was looking [...]

Filed Under: Ancestry, Census, Marriages Tagged With: Bowman, Deatherage, Eminence Missouri, Iron, Sechrest, Shannon, Williams

Otto Family Had Five in World War II

August 21, 2010 By Carol Wilkerson

All Came Home (click on image until it is viewable full-sized) All of these men are, or were, my husband Jim’s uncles from his mother Mary Jane Otto Wilkerson’s side of the family. Going by the dates mentioned in the article, it might have been written in 1944. As far as I know, all of [...]

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Geneva Bean Allsup 1918 – 2010

August 16, 2010 By Carol Wilkerson

Geneva Eldora Bean Allsup is my husband Jim’s great aunt. She was the daughter of Mary Rachel (Jordan) and Levi Charles Bean seen below. GENEVA ALLSUP Des Moines Geneva Allsup, 91, passed away on August 12, 2010 at the Kavanagh Hospice Home on 56th St. Geneva was married to Rollin Allsup and he preceded her [...]