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. [...]
2011 Memorial Day – Veterans
May 28, 2011 by
Yates and Allied Families Wilkerson and Allied Families On every Memorial Day I remember all of my family members who have passed on. Not all of the people in this collage have passed, but many of them have. I feel it’s important to thank our veterans whenever we can, and so I post this [...]
Do You Have Favorite Family Members?
September 6, 2010 by
Are there favorite family members you like to research or write about? Until someone else posed this question, I hadn’t really given it much thought just who I seemed to write about the most. I think about several of my ancestors quite often though, and wish that I could have met them. Minnie Smith Yates [...]
