Monday, November 8, 2010

Find a Grave

This is a good website where you can look for information about locating an ancestor's grave.  There are more than 53 million graves, often with pictures and headstone incriptions.  You can search by name, by location, or by cemetery.  Really good information here.
http://www.findagrave.com/

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Thanksgiving 1894



"At Thanksgiving time 1894 all of the family that was living except Cora Pealer assembled with Pa & Ma Ballard for Thanksgiving dinner at their house on Washington Street Dunkirk, Ohio. After dinner we concluded to go to the photograpers and get our picture taken. This is a copy of that picture.

Lower row - from right to left: Father Ballard, Mother Ballard, Jonathan Ballard

Upper row - from right to left: Freelove Baughman, Emmeline Hammond, Francis Marion Ballard, Mary Alice Crist, Emily Marshall."