I’ll try and put together an informative post about Point Lookout / Fort Lincoln once I have some more free time. We visited today and it has a big spot in history. Tomorrow we’re headed up to Washington D.C. for some culture. š So I’ll be taking some more pictures of that.
We have company this week. My cousin is in Maryland visiting us. I may not have the time to get updates in this week, but we’ll see! I have nothing to offer in way of tips or tricks today, so I’ll leave you with a picture!
Emogene Taylor-Mays-Utter (1929-2005)
She was one of my favorite people in the whole world and I still miss her. See you soon folks!
I never thought I’d have anything to contribute to Madness Monday at GeneaBloggers. Sure I have plenty of dementia in the family but I doubted Iād ever have any good stories about this subject. A while back (meaning I canāt remember when), I got the death certificate for my Great-Great Grandfather. I got quite a surprise when looking at his cause of death.
Thatās right folks. It reads āAcute Insanityā as his cause of death.Ā The Contributory causes seem to say: āWorry over sickness of the other 3 ??? Ā family.ā This certificate was the Ancestry.com copy, Iām going to order a certified copy and see if the writing is clearer. I have reason to believe it will be. š
Now looking into his family situation I canāt really blame him. By the time of his death, four of his eleven children had died as infants. 1913 is still a little early for the āSuper Flu of 1918,āĀ unless there was a very localized epidemic Iām not aware of. I will probably spend a day going through the newspaper archives on my first Kentucky genealogy trip. š
Iām sure it wasnāt worry that was his downfall but maybe stress induced heart attack? Stroke? Brain Hemorrhage? Who knows, but Iāll always be able to say he died of Acute Insanity.
Madness Monday is Daily Blogging Topic I got from GeneaBloggers. To participate in Madness Monday simply create a post with the main focus being an ancestor who may have suffered from some form of mental illness or an ancestor who drives you āmadā because you have trouble locating them or locating more information about them.
For many many years (okay for 4 years), I have been trying to locate where the New Zion Cemetery in Pendleton County, Kentucky is located. I found the New Zion Cemetery listed on James William Applegate‘s death certificate. He is the second generation of Applegates and his father died fairly young, so information from that time is hard to find. So having a cemetery to go to and look around might solve some things for me. Maybe heās in a family plot? I donāt know until I find it.
Unfortunately for me, all mentions of this cemetery are vague at best. My Google-fu obviously needs polishing. However, I was adding in Jamesā source information on my website last night and I was re-checking some websites. I got the most pleasant surprise!
James and his wife were added into the Find a Grave database! Not only that but there was a photo of the headstone to boot!Ā This record was only added on March 25th of this year. So my checking back was a very good thing! To think if I had given up on New Zion Cemetery, I never would have gotten the extra gusto needed to keep on task. Now that I see there is proof, I could add that in to my file, but I am not adding photos unless they are taken by me. Just a little thing I want to do for myself. I want to visit all my ancestors eventually.
So thatās where I got the idea for this āFollow Fridayā. Find a Grave is such a valuable source! Especially if you canāt get to the cemeteries yourself right away. Iām even signed up as a Contributor and Photo Volunteer. So if you need any pictures from cemeteries in St. Maryās County, Maryland, just let me know!
In fact, something new to Find a Grave since my last visit is the ability to add Relationship Links and Transcriptions! Iām going to have to check that out!
Follow Friday is a Daily Blogging Topic I got from GeneaBloggers. To participate in Follow Friday, simply create a post in which you recommend another genealogy blogger, a specific blog post, a genealogy website or a genealogy resource. Tell us why they are important to the genealogy community and why we should follow.
In honor of Earth Day, I’m going to show you a little glimpse into what we worked on recently. Our first vegetable garden. It’s our first try, and we’re still noobies when it comes to things like this, but we’re trying. That’s all that really matters right?
Here’s my parents trying to figure out how the water source is going to work.
Poor dad, heās stuck with a bunch of girly girls. We do our best though!
Should I have made them sign releases first? Oh well, theyāll yell at me later. Mom is the brains behind this operation.
Looks like itās working to me!
Look Amanda came to assist! Now I get to keep taking pictures. Thatās my job you know. Iām supposed to document everything. Itās an official role in the family.
Without my official role, these pictures would be impossible. So happy Earth Day!
