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Frances Eveline Holmes Miller – Champion Old Fiddler 1937 Iowa State Fair

August 11, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Mrs. Frances E. Miller, Des Moines, Iowa – 1937 Frances Eveline Holmes was born 20 February 1865 in Harrison County, Missouri to parents Sarah Ann Fallis and Paul Holmes. Paul was the fifth child of Elizabeth Hensley and David Oliver Holmes, and he was born in Tennessee. “Eva” as she was called married Kendall Miller [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday: David and William Holmes

July 1, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

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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COG – Modest Genealogy Goals For 2010

December 27, 2009 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Carnival of Genealogy I don’t usually make New Year’s goals, but here are some things I hope to accomplish this year in my personal and professional genealogy: Last month I ordered a Civil War pension file for George O. Barlow, an ancestor of my niece-in-law Jill Hohensee Yates, and after it comes in the mail [...]