Tombstone Tuesday ~ Oelze Family Plot

Oelze Family Plot

(relatives of my great-great grandmother, Augusta Tabeling née Oelze)

Cloverport Cemetery

Breckinridge County, Cloverport, Kentucky

Wednesday, August 12, 2015 

Cloverport Cemetery

Breckinridge County, Cloverport, Kentucky

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Titanic Headstones

I have always had a deep interest in the Titanic, it's history, victims and her survivors. My dear friends Michael and Linda, recently returned from a cruise that took them from New York to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they toured the Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax. They then when onto Quebec, Canada. Knowing my passion and love of family history, genealogy, cemeteries and the Titanic ~ they gifted me with these photos from their tour of headstones from several victims that perished in the Titanic disaster. I am anxious to share them with you on "Tombstone Tuesday" ~ Thank you Mike and Linda, you are the best!

 

A brief timeline:

Commissioned by The White Star Line, the construction of the Titanic began on March 31, 1909 by shipbuilder Harland and Wolff's Belfast, Ireland, yard.

The Titanic's maiden voyage was on April 10th, 1912, approximately at noon. On April 14th, 1912, at approximately 11:40 p.m., the Titanic's starboard side scraped past an ice burg, causing a series of small punctures below the waterline. Water began rushing into the Titanic's hull. Around midnight, Captain Smith gave the orders to ready the lifeboats. The first lifeboat was lowered into the ocean at 12:45 a.m. The band, led by, Wallace Hartley, continued to play as passengers filled the lifeboats. The last life boat left at 2:05 a.m., there were still 1,500 passengers stranded on the ship. Shortly afterward at approximately 2:10 a.m., the Titanic's bow sinks further underwater. At 2:17 a.m. the stern rises out of the water, causing a strain and the bow and stern break apart, landing 2,000 feet away from each other. At 2:20 a.m., the Titanic slips from view and sinks to the bottom of the ocean where she lays at rest today.








April 17th, 1912, Mackay-Bennett chartered by White Star Lines, leaves Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the North Atlantic to start recovering victims' bodies. April 21st, 1912, the Mackey-Bennett crew begins recovering over 300 bodies in six weeks, one-third are buried at sea. On May 3rd, 1912, burial of victims begin at Halifax cemeteries. About 50% of the 150 bodies buried were unidentified

~ Rest in Peace ~

I took brief excerpts from the Timeline of the Titanic ~


Source: 
History.com
 I am not related to any persons named in the photos above (as far as I know). The photos used in this post were taken by Michael and Linda B. and given to me with full permission to use on Ginisology Blog.

Tombstone Tuesday~ Wyatt Earp Relatives ~

Digital photo taken and held by Gini Webb (address for private use) San Diego, CA October 19, 2009

I have temporarily run out of my own Tombstone Tuesday photos (computer problems and accessing my photos). As I went on line the other day, I was checking out the San Diego Genealogical Society here in San Diego (I am thinking of joining), I clicked on a local cemetery that was listed on the SDGS site under Records available online (link below) .

El Cajon Cemetery was officially founded in 1903. The history on it is wonderful. I decided I wanted to check it out and did so yesterday! I was out walking around in the original (dry) part of the cemetery when the caretaker Joe Dodson came up to me and asked if I needed anything. I explained to him that I am doing genealogy and that I wanted to see this particular cemetery. He was so helpful and shared some of the history with me. He said, "We don't really have anyone big and famous but over there are relatives of Wyatt Earp" - my ears perked up and I knew I was going to head over to that one.

He also gave me Marna Clemons phone number, Marna took over the transcribing project, did extensive research, coordinated the final survey for publishing. I look forward to connecting with Marna. We meet the nicest most helpful people along our genealogy journeys.

Also close by were the grave sites of the "Butterfield Stage Coach" people. I am not sure if they were employees or passengers but the Butterfield Stage Coach route went thru San Diego and further out east of San Diego which I have been on in a jeep. I didn't get a chance to find those graves and I had forgotten to take my camera (I know, what the heck was I thinking, my phone didn't do too bad of job with Earp photo)!

I will be going back but I wanted to share this photo of Wyatt Earps relatives. I do not know what the relationship was, but according to the caretaker, they were direct descendants. I did take a few other photos of very old headstones and will post those soon. I was looking to see if I recognized any names that may have appeared in any of our genea-blogs, I am not native to San Diego nor do I have any ancestors here. One never knows where you may find your ancestor, so I wanted to share with you!

Take a moment to read the history on this cemetery, there are several buried there that are not native to San Diego or California, there is a list of surnames after the preface and acknowledgements, a few I saw are originally from Wyoming and Colorado.

I really enjoyed walking thru this cemetery, it was very quiet and peaceful, it's tucked away and not many know it's even there.

Tombstone Tuesday ~ of a different kind

My Paternal Great Grandfather: Albert "Fritz" Tabeling ~

When I took my first Genealogy Vacation to Louisville, KY, April 2008, and met my Aunt Virginia for the first time (my namesake), we rented a van and drove to Cloverport, KY in search of my TABELING line. My grandmother, Inez TABELING's father and mother and several of her siblings that had died in the 1919 Flu Epidemic leaving my grandmother Inez and 3 other sisters orphaned. We did find the Cemetery they were buried in, Albert, Lillie Mae Pate my great grandmother and the children, all in one little area but they did not have a marker. One day I would love to be able to afford a marker for them. So I have this death certificate and a photo of thier gravesite with no headstones. This was the first item I had obtained when I started my Genealogy journey, I was pretty excited! Digital Image taken and held by Gini Webb. San Diego, CA

(address for private use) April 2008)

My Granddaughter and Aunt in photo

TABELING Family plot, Albert and Lillie Mae Pate with 4 children.

Cloverport Cemetery, Cloverport KY

Tombstone Tuesday ~ James P. Ewing

Digital Photo Owned and held by Bob Ewing (address for privte use,) posting and use with full permission.

My daughter's paternal Irish Grandfather...

IN MEMORY OF

JAMES P

EWING

STSC

US NAVY

WORLD WAR II

KOREA

VIETNAM

MARCH 14, 1917

JULY 9, 1982

Buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery

San Diego, CA

Thank you Bob and to you Dad Ewing Happy St. Patricks Day!

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Adalbert Haf

Adalbert Haf

b: 27 Feb 1907 Augsburg, Germany

d: 09 Feb 1968 Augsburg, Germany

Adalbert Haf ~ My maternal Grandfather. He is buried in Augsburg, Germany. The sad part is that in Germany, grave site space is limited. My Mom explained to me that you basically "rent" grave sites. My Oma, (grandmother in German) paid for his grave site in 20 year increments. She is 95 years old and cannot keep up the grave so she had to let it go! She is in a home there. I was born in Augsburg, Germany and came here when I was 2 1/2. My Opa and I were pretty close and he had a hard time when my Mom and I left. Below is his Obituary...I do not read German (yes sad I know) so I am unable to translate!




My son-in-law Jonathan matted and framed this photo of my "Opa" Adalbert Haf with his Memorial Card, I love the way it turned out. I have it hanging in my hallway "gallery of family photos". My "Opa" was a Webermeister which is a Fabric Weaver or also known as a Jauuard Designer in Augsburg, Germany, a historic city for weavers. The Company he worked for was 'Buntweberei Reidinger'.

I love his smile! Here's to you Opa!

Tombstone Tuesday~ Old "Old St. Mary of the Woods" Cemetery

This is the Old "Old St. Mary of the Woods" Cemetery in McQuady, Kentucky, my Great Great Grandparents John Henry and Augusta (Oelze) Tabeling are buried. It took a little bit to get there. The cemetery sits back behind the trees you see in the back ground, you cannot see it from the very narrow one lane road. You park at the bottom of the hill and walk up. The church I guess use to sit on this site. The new "old" church is about 3 miles away, and was built in the 1800's. The new "Old St. Mary of the Woods"

Cemetery is right across the street with several

more of my ancestors buried there.

We drove about an hour and a half from my Aunt's home in Louisville to McQuady. I had been communicating with Sister Mary Agnes via email. She said that when we arrived at the church she would jump in our rental van and take us over to the cemetery, she did just that and off we went, she was so helpful and sweet. She also gave us a tour of the church and I felt that I was standing in the same place as my ancestors. It is a beautiful little church.

I will post more about the church and it's history in another post, many of my Tabeling Ancestors were regular parishioners and from what I understand help build the church along with the McQuady Community. I have not verified that but that was what I was told.

Digital Photos owned and held by Gini (address for private use)

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Howland Flats, CA

Digital photos taken and held by Steve Webb (address for private use,) June 2007

The Tombstone photos that I am posting are of no relation to me. Our family did a camping trip up in Northern California in 2007 in Marysville, CA. My husband and some of his co-workers went jeeping along the back roads thru La Port and ended up in Howland Flats, CA.

My husband took these photos for me, knowing my passion for Genealogy and Cemeteries! We have several photos of Head Stones that I will post here. I have been wanting to post these photos but could not remember the town they were in, my husbands friend and co-worker, who is a Jeep guru, looked it up for me and told me where to go on google so that I could give you the facts. I was going to post a link but when I found the one I wanted, it's protected by the US Gen Web project. I was happy to see that...however I could not use that here. So if you want to know more about this wonderful little mining town just google Howland Flats, CA. It lists all who are buried there. I would like to get ahold of Beth Bullard-Watson and offer these photos for part of that archive if she is interested. As I was starting to say, I have been wanting to post these photos so that it may help others who are looking for their Ancestors that could be buried there.

Howland Flat was a prosperous mining town settled in the early 1850’s. In 1861 the Union Tunnel company washed out 110 ounces of gold in 8 hours. Howland Flat continued its boom or bust cycle until the early part of the 20th century. Source and quoted from: Google search, site: Wikimapia.org/7304463/Howland-flat-CA-site

Digital photos taken and help by Steve Webb (address for private use,) June 2007

Wm. Hughes

Died

May 19 1980.

Aged 66 YRS.

3 MO. 24 DS.

Margrate

Hughes

Died

Oct. 28. 1895

Age 64 YRS.

10 MO. 3 DS.

Digital photos taken and held by Steve Webb (address for private use ,) June 2008

Daniel McKeever

Died

Oct. 30. 1882

Aged

46 Years

_____

Rest in Peace

Digital photos taken and held by Steve Webb (address for private use,) June 2007

Patrick Costello Mary Costello

Died Died

Jan. 8, 1892, Aug. 1, 1905.

Aged Aged

58 Years. 78 Years.

_______ _______

Rest in peace. Rest in peace.

Most of these headstones are in great condition. Marysville, Howland Flats, La Port, CA, are neat little towns, its so pretty up there. I grew up in Northern Cal, camped as a little girl all over these areas... I really do miss it there!

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Robert Newton Eimes 1898 ~ 1979

My Grandfather: Robert Newton Eimes

b: 06 Jun 1898 ~ d: 25 Aug 1979 Louisville, KY

Robert

Eimes

Sgt

US Army

World War 1

Jun 6 1898

Aug 25 1979

Buried at the Camp Nelson National Cemetery in Nicholasville, KY

Digital photos owned and held by Gini (address for private use,) April 2008

Tombstones(s) Tuesday ~

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery

St. Louis, Missouri

Photo Privately held by Gini (address for private use,) April 2008

Photo taken on Genealogy trip to Kentucky.

My Father, John Adam Eimes b: 27 Dec. 1931 in Louisville, Ky

d: 14 Jan. 1997 St. Louis, Missouri

Michael Thomas Eimes b: 23 Feb 1974 in St. Louis, Missouri

d: 3 Aug. 1992 St. Louis, Missouri

2nd row, 3rd from the left with the flower in front.

My brother is on one side (one facing camera) of the stone and my father is on the other side.

It's a beautiful cemetery. My Grandmother Inez Eimes Arbogast is also buried there with her husband Arthur Arbogast.

Tombstone Tuesday~

Probst

John A.                 Virginia L.

1897 - 1967         1895 - 1966

Husband                   Wife

Photo privately held by Gini (address for private use,) San Diego, CA 2008



My great Aunt Virginia Lee Ijames b: 05 Jan 1895. Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky. Married John Adam Probst 25 Mar 1925. d: 24 June 1966 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.



I never had the opportunity to meet her but from what I understand, she was quite a lady. She was a chef on ships. I finally found her in the 1930 "Crew of Vessels" Pittsburgh, PA Census Report, I did the happy dance! This photo which a genealogy friend, Rachel found for me, I cannot take credit for and the Census report I found are the only two items I have for her. My Aunt Virginia located a few photos of her recently, now I know what she looked like, (another post). I am slowly learning more about her. My Aunt Virginia and I were named after her.

Tombstone Tuesday

My Great Great Grandfather and Grandmother - John Henry TABELING b: 4 Dec. 1832, Born in Prussia, Germany, d. 1 Aug. 1883. Augusta b. 16 Feb 1841 in Prussia, Germany, d. 1898. Settled in the little towns of McQuady and Cloverport, Kentucky.

They are buried in the old "Old St. Mary of the Woods" cemetery in McQuady, KY. It's an old cemetery that was not taken care of and overgrown with weeds. Old St. Mary of the Woods Catholic Church just down the road is now caring for it and it's such a beautiful little cemetery.

I still have a lot of research to do on their lives. I have limited information but have found them both in an 1880 Census. With the help of Mary Ruth Bye and Karen Schafer (Karen is an Archivist for the Hardinsburg Court house) led me to Sister Mary Agnes at the Old St. Mary of the Woods Catholic Church. I called Sister Mary Agnes and she was so helpful, we exchanged email addresses. She said that when we arrive there, to find her and she would help us.

Our family drove from CA to KY last April to meet my Aunt Virginia, we then rented a van and all drove about an hour and a half from Louisville and hunted for this cemetery. When we arrived at the church, I found Sister Mary Agnes who was more than happy to guide us. She hopped in the van and took us to the cemetery that was down this little one lane road and back behind trees.

There is a new "Old St. Mary of the Woods" cemetery right across from the church, that cemetery also holds several of my TABELING ancestors. The church is very historic and my ancestors were regular parishioners (another post on the history of the church later). This was my first Genealogy trip and a great start towards research on my TABELING line.

Photo Privately held by Gini Webb (address for private use).