Helping the present understand the past
I’m loving being a member of the Geneabloggers community. There are so many new blogs for me to look at so it was very difficult to make a decision on which one to highlight for today’s Follow Friday post. Today’s lucky winner is A Family Tapestry. Jacqi’s post on The Other Family was a great…
Welcome to another edition of Tombstone Tuesday! Today we’re not straying very far from last week’s tombstone. It belongs to my maternal grandfather, Edward Bell Conwell, Jr. Edward was the second of eight children of Edward Bell Conwell, Sr. and Zella May (McCabe) Conwell. He had five brothers (one older, four younger) and two sisters…
Welcome to Tombstone Tuesday! Today’s tombstone is brought to you from Mount Washington Cemetery in Independence, MO and belongs to my maternal grandmother, Edith Marie (Brown) Conwell. Edith was the youngest child of Richard Selman Brown and Martha Lucinda (Vaughn) Brown. She had five older sisters and four older brothers. Edith was born 1 December…