I’m spending some of my Memorial Day at FindAGrave.com
Posted by Liv | Filed under Cemetery
Even though Memorial Day began as a holiday to honor those who died in military service, it has evolved into much more. Today, this federal holiday has become a general day of memory for those we’ve loved and lost. Therefore, many Americans will be visiting grave sites of relatives this Memorial Day weekend whether they served [...]
Tags: findagrave.com, joseph chapple, LongLostRelatives.net, Memorial Day 2012, Susan Petersen, Taneya's Genealogy Blog, virtual cemetery
Tombstone Tuesday: Joseph & Ethel Chapple
Posted by Liv | Filed under Cemetery, Chapple, Surname, Tombstone Tuesdays
My maternal grandfather, Joseph Chapple, was born 2 Jun 1902 and died 23 Aug 1966. After the death of his wife, Estella Smith Chapple on 30 Jul 1930, he married Ethel Abrams Thompson nine years later on 19 Jan 1939. Ethel was born 28 Mar 1902 and died 28 Apr 1983. The Chapple grave site is located [...]
Tags: cemetery, chapple, Ethel Chapple, family history, Golden Gate, gravesite, houston, joseph chapple, texas, tombstone
Bordersville Serivce Learning Project
Posted by Liv | Filed under Cemetery
As I walked through one of the buildings on the way back to my office today, I stopped to see the Bordersville Service Learning Project playing on a monitor mounted on the wall in the hallway. Dean Wolfe, Professor of History at Lone Star College-Kingwood, was explaining what the historical cemetery clean-up service project was [...]
Tags: bordersville, cemetery, dean wolfe, http://www.flickr.com/photos/nakrnsm/4591346369/in/photostream/, humble, jim crow, lsc-ki, service project, st. luke
