Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Carol
I’m completely baffled by the FindAGrave site. Last night a lady wouldn’t transfer my father-in-law’s memorial (he is not deceased) to me; and today I asked for a transfer of John Whitmore, my husband’s GG-Grf and Medal of Honor Recipient, and was denied that too. Is there some (monetary?) “award” for people who have the [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2010 by Carol
Until we could see the actual entry in John Breedlove’s diary for ourselves, it was a mystery as to what had happened to John’s younger brother William Dawson Breedlove. Family history had him serving in the war too, but we didn’t know if it was CSA or USA. By doing some fairly easy detective [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Carol
The Caretaker Pictured above is my 2nd cousin, once removed, Wayne Breedlove who generously brought the John W. Breedlove diary with him from Florida when he visited us last week. Wayne’s father, Othel Breedlove was the man who ‘rescued’ the diary from obscurity decades ago. Wayne found it in his dad’s camper, tucked away on [...]
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