Tomb Stone Tuesday - Charles & Lizzie Stewart

This the the tombstone for my Stewart grandparents. The "Stewart" is on the other side of this stone and around their stone are smaller ones of other family members. The location is the Center Church Cemetery in Center Township, Rush County, Indiana.

Tombstone for Charles S., 1870-1945, & Clara Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Emay) Stewart 1879-1956

My grandmother went by Lizzie throughout her life and, as you can see, to her final rest. It must have run in the family because her mother, Mary Frances (Leisure) Emay, was always known as "Fanny".

Eliphalet B. Miller - Wordless Wednesday

Eliphalet Barber Miller  - 68th Reg, Co. C, Indiana Vol.

1840-1887
Little Salt Creek Cemetery, Rush, Indiana

Tomb Stone Tuesday - Isaiah Stewart

Back some 13 or 14 years ago, I took this photo of my 2nd great-grandfather's headstone. It was practically illegible at the time and I imagine is much worse today. I wish I had know how to clean it up some to get a better picture but this is the best I have.

Headstone for Isaiah Stewart







born: 24 Feb 1791 in Montgomery, Kentucky

married: 1. Jane McCullough about 1811
             2. Mary Jane Benefiel 24 Mar 1821

died: 20 Nov 1868 in Jefferson, Indiana
buried in Canaan Cemetery, Jefferson, Indiana

Tomb Stone Tuesday - Leisure

Hannegan Cemetery; Rush County, Indiana

George W. Leisure

born June 3, 1809

died Mar 27, 1896

Lucida Myers

Wife of G. W. Leisure

Born July 27, 1810

Died Aug 13, 1890

These are two of my Leisure ancestors. I'm still looking forward to the reunion this weekend.

I created some Descendants charts to take along (lots of cutting and pasting!!) These Leisures had a tendency towards very large families!!

Davey Stones in Dodgeville, WI

Here are a couple of tombstones from my husband's maternal side (not my project side) found at East Side Cemetery in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. This is the immigrant couple coming from Cornwall, England.

John Dyer Davey, born abt 1810, died 14 Mar 1883.

Mary Ann Davey (John's wife), born 1817, died 08 Feb 1897.

Higgins Tombstone Tuesday

I posted this on the Elgin Genealogical Society's blog in 2009 before I had my own. Thought I'd throw it out again here. It does go along with my Ruch research as Emma Ruch married Thomas Higgins a descendant of the Luke in question.

This is a photo of the table stone for Luke Higgins of Ballinrobe, Ireland 1808-20 Jul 1873. The photo was taken 18 Jul 1996 after several days of searching and with the help of County Mayo History Center in Ballinrobe.

My husband, sister-in-law and her husband, and I took this trip to Ireland early in my research of the Higgins family. Because of that I had low expectations of getting much further while there but wasn't about to pass up a trip to Ireland. I did have some undocumented hints that the family had been in the area of Ballinrobe and as luck would have it the history center was located in there. Things started to pop within hours of our arrival.

Our hostess at the B&B asked what had brought us there and when we answered we were looking for information of our Higgins family she said, " Higgins, ah, Higgins - I think Leo [Leonora] was a Higgins. I'll ring her up." And so she did and so started our week long visit with relatives we didn't even know were still around.

Back to the stone, our visit to the Catholic cemetery was very productive but we weren't able to find a stone for the progenitor known to us as "Old Luke" (he's far from the only Luke in the family). When I brought this up at the history center a map of the old section of the cemetery showed the location. Alas the old section was covered with briers and brambles and was difficult of traverse. However, we were determined and so we trudged in following the directions and landmarks from the handdrawn map. Nothing, not stone.. until my husband swaying side to side said, "I think I'm standing on something here." He and our brother-in-law took out their pocket knives and began cutting away the over-growth and there is was - still legible.

My husband stood before it and as he began to read the inscription the church bells rang out,

MAY HE WHO IS TO COME TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD GRANT ETERNAL REST TO THE SOUL OF LUKE HIGIGNS WHO DEPARTED THIS THE 20TH JULY 1873 AGED 65 YEARS

Don't you just love serendipity!!

Higgins Tombstones

These are the tombstones of Luke and Bridget (Carroll) Higgins, the parents of Thomas Higgins who married Emma Ruch, daughter of Charles and Salome (Siegler) Ruch. Luke and Bridget are buried at the Catholic cemetery in Hampshire, Illinois.

This is the immigrant couple for this Higgins line. Luke was a dairy farmer in Hampshire and Thomas later moved to Chicago where he was a milk dealer. He went to the train station each morning to pick up milk delivered from his father's farm.

Tombstone Tuesday

These pictures were taken at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. They are of some of the Ruch/Siegler family I'll be writing about.

This is the tombstone for Frederick Siegler; the birth and death dates are written on the side of the stone. You'll note that it is Jennie's (his wife) name that is prominent; however, she is not buried there as she remarried and is probably buried with her second husband. Fred's name is, however, listed on the cemetery plat record.

Salome and Charles are buried next to each other in the plot.

This is the view of the whole plot plus.

I need to return to the cemetery and do a little more reading in the area. I think I might have missed some collateral family members when I went the first time; early in my research.