Category Archives: Uncategorized

Charles C. Keene Born 1832, Hessen Cassel, Germany Died May 7, 1894, San Franciso, California Susan Keene Born April 1852, New York, New York Died August 22, 1915, San Francisco, California Keene was born in Germany and migrated to the … Continue reading →

IN Memory of WINIFRED, Beloved wife of MICHAEL BRANDON. A Native of the Parish of Foughney, Co. Galway, Ireland. Died Dec. 4, 1880. Aged 35 Years. May her soul rest in peace. Amen. MICHAEL BRANDON Native of Co. Galway, Ireland … Continue reading →

ERECTED BY MICHAEL INMEMORY OF HIS BELOVED WIFEHONORA ANNA GABRIELLE McCLUREBORN IN VIRGINIA CITY, NEV.MAY 30, 1877.DIED AUG. 12, 1904.MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON HER SOUL. The white marble monument for Honora McClure in the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in … Continue reading →

JOSEPH HIRSCHBACH A NATIVE OF MANHEIM. DIED APRIL 29, 1897. AGED 35 YEARS. The pointed white marble tablet of Joseph Hirschbach in the Home of Peace Cemetery and Emanu-El Mausoleum in Colma, California displays a violin in the arch of … Continue reading →

IN MEMORIAM MARGARET McK. MUNHALL MARCH 8, 1925 JOHN MUNHALL 1833 – 1904 HETTY MUNHALL 1837 – 1875 “BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART” The massive rock face gray granite Munhall Family monument in the Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, … Continue reading →

Edwin William MacAllister December 8, 1895 – January 7, 1977 Hilda Lydia Elsie Yakle MacAllister March 17, 1897 – June 1992 There is an old saying that a man’s home is his castle which has its origins in English law … Continue reading →

ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE 1862 — 1927 CATHERINE BEVERIDGE 1881 — 1970 ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE JR 1908 — 1965 In 1942, Catherine Beveridge, second wife of Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, commissioned famed sculptor John Clements Gregory (1879 – 1958) to create a funerary … Continue reading →

KERRY SHANE SHECKLES Born September 11, 1973, Winchester, Indiana   Died February 4, 2005, Avon, Indiana Palmer’s Prairie Church of Christ in rural Sullivan County, Indiana, is no longer, but the church graveyard is, a testament to the congregation that … Continue reading →

The unicorn, carved into a gravestone in the Clear Creek Cemetery in rural Indiana, represents purity, steadfastness, and the incarnation and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  In Medieval times unicorns were depicted as protectors of divine sacrifice.

C. PENN WETTLAUFER OCT. 9, 1935 JAN. 11, 2000 AGE QUOD AGIS Conrad Penn Wettlaufer was a native son of Buffalo.  He hailed from a proud lineage descended from a signer of the Declaration of Independence and of William Penn, … Continue reading →