Tombstone Tuesday-Lois Wilcox Alden

Lois,

Wife of

Timothy Alden

Died

Jan. 10, 1851

Aged 77 Yrs

11 M & 8 D

Lois is buried at the Monroeton Cemetery, Monroeton, Bradford County, PA

You can read more about the life of my maternal 5x great-grandmother at Celebrating the Life of Lois Wilcox Alden.

If you have any corrections or additions or stories to share I look forward to hearing them.
Enjoy the journey,
Debby

Tombstone Tuesday-Caroline Overton Robinson

Please see posts entitled Caroline Overton Robinson and Amanuensis Monday-Will of Caroline F. Overton Robinson to find additional information on my 3x Great-Grandmother Caroline Overton Robinson.

Brookfield Cemetery, Manorville, Suffolk County, New York

Robinson Family Plot

Caroline

wife of

Stephen Robinson

died March 20, 1897

AE 85 years & 3 mo

Farewell dear mother sweet thy rest.

If you have any corrections or additions or stories to share I look forward to hearing them.

Enjoy the journey,

Debby

Tombstone Tuesday-Jacob Grantier

Jacob Granteer

Griffin Cemetery, Canton, Bradford County, Pennsylvania

Maternal 5th great-grandfather

1750-1805

 See post Sunday Serendipity-Jacob Grantier

If you have any corrections or additions or stories to share I look forward to hearing them.

Enjoy the journey,

Debby

Tombstone Tuesday - Timothy Alden

Timothy Alden is my maternal 5th great-grandfather and the great-great-grandson of John and Priscilla (Mullen) Alden.  

Timothy was the son of Israel and Lucy (Markham) Alden. 

He was born 23 Feb 1770 in Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusettes.

Timothy died 29 Sept 1859 in Monroeton, Bradford, PA.

 

(See the post Using County Histories to Find Information-Timothy Alden from Sunday to find out more about Timothy.)

Timothy Alden is buried in the Monroeton Cemetery in Monroeton, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.  I took this picture on a quick stop in the late 1990s.  Wish I had found it before the stone became weathered to know what else it may have said.
 

If you have any corrections or additions or stories to share I look forward to hearing them.

 

Enjoy the journey,

Debby

Tombstone Tuesday-Margaret Hamman (Hammond) Shove

Until about 6 months ago I really knew nothing about my Great Aunt Margaret (Maggie) Hamman Shove.  I’m not even sure I knew my grandfather James Jacob Hammond had a sister named Maggie.
In April I found out that my grandfather (James Jacob) had 2 sisters-Margaret and Mary and 3 brothers- Arthur (John), Michael and Joseph Hamman all  born in Remsen, Iowa to Henry Hamman and Suzie Bentz Hamman.  Their mother Suza died in 1908 when the oldest Mary was 10 and the youngest Michael was barely a year old.

I can find most of the siblings except for Margaret in an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa in 1910.
In 1915 I find Aunt Maggie living in Meadow, Plymouth, Iowa.
I believe Frank Shove and Margaret Hammond were married about 1920.
In 1930 I find Margaret and Frank Shove in Cherokee, Iowa with daughters Betty June and Delores.
In 1934, when my grandparents, James Jacob Hammond and Edna Mae Cornell were married in Spencer, NY,  I know that Mrs. Frank Shove of Cherokee, Iowa attended and signed the Guest Book.
In 1966 Margaret passed away in San Diego, CA.  She was buried in Mt. Hope, San Diego and was 65 years old.

I find it interesting that whoever gave the above information for the Death Notice did not mention or possibly know of my Grandfather who was still alive and living in Van Etten, NY.

I have not been able to locate the children of Frank and Margaret’s daughters yet.  I know that Betty June Shove Goodburn passed away in 2015 leaving 2 children and 8 grandchildren.  Delores Reiter passed away before 2015.

If you have any corrections or additions or stories to share I look forward to hearing them.

Enjoy the journey,

Debby

Tombstone Tuesday–James Jacob Warner

I have no photos of my paternal 4x great-grandfather James Jacob Warner (1762-1803).  In the 1980s, long before Billion Graves or Find a Grave, I thought to take pictures of many ancestor’s tombstones.  I guess I thought since I couldn’t have a picture of the person then this would be something that belonged to that ancestor and was a piece of time and information that I could have.

 

James lived in Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, NY.  He is buried in the Congregational Church Cemetery also in Baiting Hollow.

 

The transcription of the stone is:

Sacred

to the Memory

of

James Warner

who died Sept. 30th

1803, in the 42d year

of his age.

“The hour concealed and so

remote the fear

Death still draws nearer

never seeming near.”

 

I have always wondered about the quote on his tombstone.  I know that in the early 1800s tombstones generally just contained general information and to add quotes, etc. was rare.  James was reported by family lore to have been ‘a college bred man and taught school’.  To date I have not been able to verify his attendance at any college of his time or any record of his teaching school in the area.  It has been speculated within the family that perhaps James had a thirst for knowledge and educated himself by reading a lot.  (Definitely a family trait). 

 

I have searched several times over the years to find out where the quote came from or what larger poem it may be part of.  Yesterday I finally found out it is part of An Essay on Man, Epistle III written by Alexander Pope (an 18th century English poet) and published in 1732. 

 

Now I wonder ….why this quote?  Was this An Essay on Man something James had read?  Why did he die so young?  Can I find a record of his death?

More information can be found on James by clicking the link for the blog post Amanuensis Monday-James Jacob Warner.

 

I walked through this cemetery when I was back East in December and was unable to find this tombstone.  Many of the tombstones are so old and worn out they are hard to read.  Several others have fallen over.

 

Lesson: When you find an ancestor’s tombstone be sure to take a picture and to write down what is on the tombstone!  Remember- tombstones don’t last forever.
 

I would appreciate any additional information or corrections you may have.
Enjoy the journey,

Debby