Posted on August 21st, 2010 by Carol
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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Posted on June 13th, 2010 by Carol
My Great-Great Grandfather was John Watts Breedlove. Many of my family have called him John Wyatt Breedlove for years, but I believe his middle name really was Watts. The name Wyatt doesn’t show up in any of the naming patterns of the family, while the name Watts does, as it was his Granfather’s middle name, [...]
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Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Carol
COG -77th Edition – Disasters My father-in-law, Loren Wilkerson, was in the Navy during World War II and near the end of the war he was on the CVE (carrier vessel escort) Cape Esperance as they made their way to Leyte Gulf for the battle that would eventually take place there. On their way to [...]
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