Posts Tagged ‘cemeteries’
Like most people who love family history, I love to visit cemeteries. No where else can you stand in one place and have so many stories swirl around you. I am drawn to the very old grave markers and the rows and rows of people who all died in the same year . . . […]
We took trimmers and brooms and cans for water. We cut flowers from the garden. We explained why we were here and what we were going to do. When we finished trimming and sweeping our ancestral graves, the grandchildren began to roam around. They found other grave stones to clean. Some had dirt. Some cobwebs. […]
To the young child, just learning to read, the cemetery can be an interesting place. Aside from all of the unusual surnames, there are some words which are repeated over and over in a cemetery. They are mother, father, papa, mama, brother, sister, daughter, friend, wife, husband. Coming face-to-face with a stone with papa carved […]
Cemeteries are strange places. Adults understand cemeteries but children are wary. On this Memorial Day we took Talmage and Holden with us to meet their ancestors. Well, at least to see their ancestors’ burial places. Walking through cemeteries gives grown-ups a chance to talk about things. About life and death. About beliefs. About why we […]
Caroline Penn was the first wife of Henry Maiben. She heard the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and was baptized in her native England. Caroline was a dressmaker. In 1845 she married direct ancestor Henry Maiben. They emigrated from England to America and made the trek west in […]
This is Mohawk Village in Coshocton County, Ohio as of 2005. It is in this place that we find the site of the original Mohawk Methodist Church and its churchyard burial ground. This cemetery is the final resting place of direct ancestor William Pancake, his wife Mary Crawford and several of their descendants.