Your Roots Are Showing 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…
Poetry - RainGate 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…
Genealogy… Back To The Beginning: Rock of Ages 25 Nov 2013November 25, 2013 Back when I started this blog, I submitted a post regarding gravestones. It was called "Rock of Ages: Grave Concerns" and it was submitted in segments. I began writing it…
Sir Leprechaun Rabbit Common Ground 12 Apr 2013January 20, 2018 Submitted to: Here is a riddle. Solve it if you can -- without the use of Internet. "Where will you find a cemetery inside another cemetery?" [Oh, that's just a wee…
Sir Leprechaun Rabbit How Well Do You Know … 27 Feb 2013 This week's edition of: available now! showcasing an article I wrote about the largest cemetery in the United States. [HINT: It is not Arlington!]
Genealogy… Sunday’s Obituary: 1846 – Daniel SKINNER, GAR (DAR Patriot) 23 Dec 2012January 22, 2018 Monticello in located in Sullivan County, New York But, his gravestone is located somewhere in here: With his wife, Mary ... At the Eldred Cemetery, Sullivan County, New York; near…
Genealogy… Tombstone Tuesday: Got that Sinking Feeling? 20 Nov 2012January 22, 2018 Woodland Cemetery Burlington, Halton Co, Ontario, CANADA This stone is the burial location of my maternal grandmother's parents -- or my great-grandparents. The picture was taken 17JUL2003. I did not…
Sir Leprechaun Rabbit Heard No More 11 Nov 2011December 2, 2011 Freedom and Sacrifice. For many Canadians it is difficult to imagine one without the other. Canada's last veteran of the First World War died in 2010; those stories will be…
Rock of Ages Rock of Ages 6: Military Uses 5 Apr 2011May 7, 2018 Military service personnel, having lost their lives in action, are honoured with government-issued stones made from marble or Barre Grey granite [41]; but, when the markers are to be located…
Sir Leprechaun Rabbit Battle of Britian: First Flyer 28 Mar 2011May 7, 2018 When Flying Officer Robert Leslie EDWARDS was killed, military records reported he was 44 years old. He was flying a Hurricane aircraft with #1 RCAF Squadron against German Dornier DO-17…