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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Water

July 16, 2011 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Water, Water Everywhere It seems like I’ve been around water in some form almost all my life. The above picture is of the Port Orchard, Washington marina where were currently live. But I was born in Olympia, WA which is surrounded by water sources of many kinds: It’s located on Budd Inlet; the Deshutes River [...]

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Daniel W. Ranslow Obituary 1981

August 31, 2010 by Carol Yates 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 Yates 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 [...]