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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Filed under: Genealogy, Tombstone Tuesday
On a recent visit to Iowa my husband Jim found the gravestone of Russell William Volckmann that I have written about several times in this blog. The headstone is located in Springdale Cemetery, Clinton, Iowa (FindAGrave location). There are several Volckmanns buried in the same general area around the General’s headstone. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fipentimento.com%2Ftombstone-tuesday-russell-w-volckmann%2F’; addthis_title [...]
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Filed under: Military, Tombstone Tuesday, World War II
Through sheer luck and a lot of networking, I’ve been able to obtain quite a few tombstone pictures for our family history. Two of them are for a father and son, David and William Livingston Holmes and they are my subjects for Tombstone Tuesday. David Holmes Information on the father, David Holmes is a little [...]
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