This Week On My Family History Calendar-Remembering a Grandfather and Great Great Grandmother

 

Sept. 29~

  My maternal Grandfather, Gilbert Ernest Roberts, Sr., died 80 years ago. 

He was killed in action on the island of Peleliu while serving in the Marines during WWII and is buried in Quaker Cemetery, Kershaw, Camden, South Carolina. 

Gilbert Ernest Roberts (1920-1944)

October 2~

Frances "Fannie" Virginia (McRady) McManus (1856-1903), my maternal great-great-grandmother, was born 168 years ago in Sumter County, South Carolina. 

She was the daughter of Thomas J. McRady (1821-1896) and Mary Jane (Brown) McRady (1821-1894).                                                                                                                                                 

Fannie McManus
Headstone
Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery
Pisgah Crossroads, Sumter, South Carolina
©Cheri Hudson Passey

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