Posted in Family Stories, Graveyard Visits, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged 19th century life, Conover genealogy, Creager genealogy, death in childbirth, decorating graves, Maineville Cemetery, Maineville Ohio, Memorial Day on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
This page of the altered photo album I made for Mother’s Day 2007 features my great-great-grandmother Emily (Creager) Conover. She was married to William Henry Conover, son of James Conover, Civil War prisoner and possible victim of the Sultana explosion.
I thought of Emily Conover over the Memorial Day weekend. I think of her every Memorial [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Family Stories, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged Applegate genealogy, Dayton Ohio, Illi genealogy, Illie genealogy, Mother's Day, Oklahoma, Pawnee on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
This page of the altered photo album I made for Mother’s Day 2006 is devoted to my great-grandmother, Lillian Illie (or Illi) Applegate. She married my great-grandfather, John Black Applegate, son of Emily Jane Reddick Applegate.
Great-Grandma (or Grandma-Up-Dayton, as she was known long after she’d moved from the Dayton area), was also my godmother. I [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Family Stories, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged altered books, altered photo album, Doughman genealogy, Hutchinson genealogy, Morrow Ohio, Mother's Day art, Mother's Day gift, Mount genealogy on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
This page of the altered photo album I made for Mother’s Day last year is dedicated to Minerva Alice (Hutchinson) Mount. She’s my great-great-grandmother. Her son, George Dale Mount, married Helen Conover, and their daughter was my Grandma Martha (Mom’s mother).
I never knew much about Alice Mount (as she was known about the time the [...]
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Posted in Family Stories, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, Poetry, Sample Poems, tagged chocolate pie, chocolate pie recipe, Dayton Ohio, Family Stories, Mother's Day, Mother's Day poetry, Vandalia Ohio on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
With Mother’s Day this Sunday, I’ve been thinking of not only my own mother, but of the wonderful women going back generations in my family. One reason I know about those women is because both Mom and her mother, Grandma Martha, always told great stories, whether about their own pasts or about the female family members [...]
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Posted in Family Stories, Graveyard Visits, tagged 175th Ohio Regiment, 175th OVI, American Civil War, Brown County Ohio, James Conover, steamship Sultana, Sultana, Titanic on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Everyone knows about the sinking of the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in which 1,517 lost their lives. Few have even heard of the steamship Sultana, which went down in the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865; the tragedy cost about 1,700 lives.
I’d never heard of the Sultana disaster until a brief mention of it [...]
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