This is an early photograph taken around 1995 in the churchyard at Pleasant Grove, Iowa. The headstones are for John Whitmore (Whittemore, etc.) and his wife Mary Elizabeth DeSpain. The churchyard is at the Shinar Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Des Moines County, Iowa. I’m participating in the Graveyard Rabbits Carnival hosted by The Graveyard Rabbit. [...]
Whitmore – Miller in Macon County, IL History
June 7, 2011 by
Macon County, Illinois History – First Marriage Formed in 1829, the county of Macon in Illinois was where our ancestor John Parlen Whittmore wed Delilah Miller, their’s being the first marriage in Macon on 20 January 1829. John who was born in either Connecticut or Massachusetts was the son of Sarah Parlin and Josiah Whittmore [...]
Frances Eveline Holmes Miller – Champion Old Fiddler 1937 Iowa State Fair
August 11, 2010 by
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 [...]
