Posted in Graveyard Visits, The Hooligan Chronicles, Travels Here & There, Virginia, West Virginia, tagged A Christmas Story, Lexington Virginia, Mothman, Stonewall Jackson, West Virginia on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Yep, we got back from our trip on Monday–totally worn out but having had a great time. It’s taken me all week to recover (and to enhance the digital photos I took). Now I’m ready to relate a few of our adventures and to post an image or two.
We drove to Virginia via southern Ohio [...]
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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 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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