Wordless Wednesday ~ The Tabeling Sisters

Original Photo held by Virginia (Eimes) Behr and I received a copy from Dawn Inman
Photo dated: May 1955

My Aunt Virginia, Inez's daughter, stated that the names are printed incorrectly at the bottom of the photo, this is the correct names starting from the left.

My Great Aunts: Gladys, Oletha, Viola, Inez (my Grandmother) and Great Aunt Josephine.

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)