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 [...]
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Sentimental Sunday: Carrie Blanton
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blanton, Chapple, Sentimental Sunday, Surname
It’s Sentimental Sunday at geneabloggers.com and this daily blogging prompt allows genealogy bloggers a chance to focus on a sentimental story or memory about an ancestor, or a wonderful family tradition. Carrie Blanton was born February 28, 1883 in Eagle Lake, Colorado County, Texas to Carey and Alice Bailey Blanton. Like her parents and eleven [...]
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Sentimental Sunday: Joseph Chapple
Posted by Liv | Filed under Chapple, Sentimental Sunday, Surname
t’s Sentimental Sunday at geneabloggers.com and this daily blogging prompt allows genealogy bloggers a chance to focus on a sentimental story or memory about an ancestor, or a wonderful family tradition. I had the pleasure of visually introducing my maternal grandfather, Joseph Chapple, to the World Wide Web community on Wordless Wednesday, February 16, 2011. [...]
Tags: 5th ward, blacksmith, chapple, creosote works, family history, family photo, freedman's town, houston, maternal grandfather, surname
