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To My Dear Friend, Grave Yard Rabbit

7 May 2022
I received a letter at work, when I never had before; The writer knew me, but not I of he, but still he did implore: To: My Dear Friend, Grave…
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Stolen: One Garden Trowel

18 Apr 2018March 8, 2022
It was Autumn.  1972. Mama Rabbit was preparing dinner, when I blustered through the door bringing in a swirl of fallen leaves and discarded candy wrappers. We found Papa John…
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Good Intentions Lost A Life (Again)

22 Jun 2015March 28, 2018
Before First Winter hit (OCT2015), I ran some errands and stopped in Fort Saskatchewan (Alberta). The cemetery there is a modestly small one; I can safely call it that as…
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Have You Met Mary Ann? #12FamilyFinds

4 Jun 2015April 2, 2018
My memory is failing, have I introduced you to Mary Ann KELLAM? We met in Barrie, Ontario at The ATKINSON Family Reunion in 1982. (Sort of.). It was at that…
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Finally: the Grave of a DAR Patriot

23 Mar 2015March 28, 2018
I've written a few times about Daniel, Junior's 5-times great-grandfather An American Revolutionary Patriot Lies Here, 26 JAN 2013, and Sunday’s Obituary: 1846 – Daniel SKINNER, GAR (DAR Patriot), 23 DEC 2012…
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Black Slate Gravestones

23 Mar 2015March 31, 2018
Mister Manton's photograph above is a beautiful capture of the aging quality of black slate gravestones. This picture is of the Lister Lane Cemetery located in Halifax, West Yorkshire in…
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Tombstone Coins

13 Feb 2014May 6, 2018
While walking through a national graveyard, well-kept and so preserved; I asked myself "Why?" Was desecration I spied? And closer I went to observe -- An old man, feeble with age, with…
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An American Revolutionary Patriot Lies Here

26 Jan 2013March 4, 2016
Saturday, January 26, 2013: WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO?!? I have offered to help my son (oldest one, Junior) with his SAR worksheets.  Yes, worksheets, he has five patriots…
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Wordless Wednesday: Southampton, Nova Scotia

21 Nov 2012March 31, 2018
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Wordless Wednesday – Nova Scotia

4 Sep 2012April 18, 2018
Genealogy…

Tombstone Tuesday – Stayner Union Cemetery, ON

3 Jul 2012July 3, 2012
Ada Jane (ATKINSON) LAWSON was a daughter of William ATKINSON and Sarah "Catherine" SCHELL; a granddaughter of John ATKINSON and Jane WATSON. George was a son of Alfred LAWSON and…
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Wordless Wednesday – Beaverton Cemetery, Gratiot Co, MI

20 Jun 2012April 28, 2018
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Tombstone Tuesday – Maple Cemetery, York Co, Ontario

19 Jun 2012June 19, 2012
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The Gas Light Mysteries: Alone at Hillside

4 Feb 2012April 7, 2018
I give many thanks to the membership of the Medicine Hat & District Genealogical Society (AGS) for their valuable assistance and kindness in helping me research this segment. His name…
Genealogy…

Funeral Card Friday – Gramma Rabbit

6 Jan 2012April 29, 2018
I was only 12years-old when she died. Emily was “Gramma Rabbit,” the first Graveyard Rabbit, who took me through the local cemeteries to tend to the flowers by the graves…
Sir Leprechaun Rabbit

Tombstone Tuesday – To Everything …

3 Jan 2012December 31, 2011
Looks like engraving, but up close ... it's wood! Fort Saskatchewan Cemetery Ft. Saskatchewan, Alberta
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Wordless Wednesday – Whitewash

28 Dec 2011January 27, 2018
Fort Saskatchewan Cemetery Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta
Genealogy…

Madness Monday – Help Wanted

20 Dec 2011April 4, 2022
As I have never come across a problem like this before, I put this to the experienced researchers out there. When searching for relatives, I am familiar with death dates…
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Tombstone Tuesday: Gravestone Goldmine

20 Sep 2011December 2, 2011
A burial from 1758 and this year is 2011 -- that is 253 years.  This aged stone has been braving the elements, mosses and lichen in Dunning, Perthshire, Scotland.  (Although…
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Not Again

20 Jun 2011May 7, 2018
What do you do when you see this?  What more can you do but cry? To lose him once was painful, but to lose him again ... why?

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