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, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged altered books, altered photo album, Applegate genealogy, Brown County Ohio, Creager genealogy, Emily Jane Applegate, Emily Jane Reddick, Reddick genealogy on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s another page in the altered photo album I made for Mother’s Day last year:
This page features Emily Jane (Reddick) Applegate. She’s my maternal great-great-grandmother, mother of John Black Applegate, my grandfather’s father. Her mother was a Creager; she married Joseph Martin Applegate.
I didn’t have a good photo of her when she was younger. All [...]
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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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I always feel a little ashamed as Mother’s Day approaches. There’s lots of talk on TV and in commercials about where to take mothers to brunch or dinner for a special experience, the kind of pampering a mother deserves on “her” day. I feel ashamed because I know my mother won’t be going out anywhere [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged altered books, altered photo album, ancestors, collage, genealogy, Mother's Day, UTEE on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Last year I wanted to make my mother a special gift for Mother’s Day. I had an old, dilapidated photo album with a broken lock that I’d gotten on eBay (I’d bought it for the photos, thinking maybe there would be long lost relatives in it because of it being from Brown County, Ohio — [...]
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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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In this post I described the birthday cake that was inflicted upon me this past week. As I was writing that, I remembered the only other birthday on which I was truly and totally grossed out.
It was about eleven years ago. We were in the dining room of Mom and Virgil’s old place near Harrison. [...]
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I had a very nice birthday today. I arrived at work to find a signed card from my editorial teammates and a Busken donut, a great way to start the day. The drive to work was gorgeous; the rain had let up but the wetness gave everything a watercolor effect in the soft morning light [...]
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I had only two birthday parties that were open to kids outside of the family when I was a child. This was my own choice; I wasn’t entirely comfortable being the center of attention, and I was even less comfortable playing hostess.
One of those parties, though, was the year I turned eight. I don’t know [...]
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