Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Family Milestones: April 6th

My paternal great grandaunt, Orilla Catherine WEHRLY, was born on this date in 1872 in Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana.  Catherine was the daughter of William P. and Olive Jane (SMITH) WEHRLY, and the younger sister of my Barbara Isabel WEHRLY.  Catherine married December 25, 1893 to Arthur B. ANDREWS.  I do not have dates of birth or death for Arthur.  Catherine died December 26, 1970 in Grant County, Indiana.

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Tombstone Tuesday: Kenneth Paul and Mary Louis (Dalrymple) LeMaster


Kenneth Paul and Mary Louise (DALRYMPLE) LeMASTER are buried in the Salamonia Cemetery, Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana.  Kenneth was my 1st cousin once removed.

Kenneth was born October 8, 1911 in Mercer County, Ohio, the son of Clarence Harrison and Ferry May (BICKEL) LeMASTER


Mary Louise was born September 13, 1917 in Darke County, Ohio, the daughter of Evan James and Eva Mae (RUNNER) DALRYMPLE.


Kenneth was a farmer and factory worker.  They had 4 children: Wanda Faye, Francis Duane (Bud), Janet Marie and Nancy Jo.


Kenneth died April 6, 2001 in Portland, Jay County, Indiana.  Mary Louise died January 29, 2001 in Portland, Jay County, Indiana.


Source: Salamonia Cemetery (Jay County, Indiana), Kenneth P. and M. Louise LeMaster marker, photographed by Travis LeMaster, 26 March 2009.

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Nothing Further Known At This Time

For some time now, I have been posting tidbits about my family and ancestors as a series of 'Family Milestones' posts.  What started out as an attempt to new content posted to the blog has turned out to be instructive and enlightening to me in regards to the lack of information that I possess about any number of families.  

My hope in publishing these mini-posts is that others who are researching the surnames will find the posts and be able to add information to my data.  Some have contacted me, and for that I am thankful.  I hope that those who read the blog are not too bored by the recitation of birth, marriage and relationship information.

Recently, I have begun to add the phrase 'nothing further is known at this time' to those posts on distant great-grandaunts and uncles, etc. that I have very little information.  My hope is that eventually I will get to a point where I can go back and update those posts with newly found information.  Perhaps some distant cousin will be able to add to the information with a death date, burial location or children, etc.

'Nothing further known at this time' is truly the status of all genealogy research - it's the journey in the discovery that takes these individuals from a mere series of names and dates and breathes some life into them that keeps me going. 

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