May 25, 2013

How To Clean A Headstone – Advice From The Artist

Mary E. and John Whitmore.

If you are planning a trip to the cemetery to clean some headstones, you should check out this advice from Roy Dixon. Roy is an authority because he designs and creates hand carved memorials for Leyda, Burrus and Metz Monument Company in Burlington, Iowa. Roy has been a regular reader of iPentimento for a while [...]

Genealogy Tracking: Wilkersons, Whitmores and L. Frank Boyd

John Whitmore

Part 1 In 1994, when I first began doing our family genealogies, my father-in-law sent us some copies of old pictures he had of his Bean and Whitmore families. He knew more about the Beans than he did John Whitmore, but we were anxious to find out more about all of them. And so began [...]

iPentimento – COI 10th Edition – Costume

john-whitmore-family-group

We’re celebrating the 10th Edition of the Carnival of Images with the word prompt: Costume John and Mary (DeSpain) Whitmore center-front Children behind L-R: Cordelia, John, Mariah, Mary and William This photo was most likely taken before 1904 because the youngest boy, William, died in January of that year. I have chosen this photo for [...]

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