This Week On My Family History Calendar

 

Nov. 18~ 
  My paternal 3rd great grandfather, William A. Martin (1813-1887) died in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina 133 years ago. He is buried in Bethesda Presbyterian Cemetery in Statesville.

William A. Martin

Headstone

Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina

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Sept. 27~

 The 144th anniversary of the death of my paternal 3rd great-grandmother. Matilda C. Martin died in Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina in 1876. She is buried in Bethesda Presbyterian Cemetery.

Matilda C. Mathis Headstone
Bethesda Presbyterian Cemetery
Statesville, NC

Sept. 29~

  My maternal Grandfather, Gilbert Ernest Roberts, Sr. died 76 years ago. He was killed in action on the island of Peleliu while serving in the Marines during WWII.  He 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 164 years ago. She was born 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
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April 12-April 18

Jubal Early Headstone
Greenlawn Cemetery
Columbia, Richland, SC

  April 13~
  My paternal great grandfather, Jubal Ransom Early (1888-1964) died 56 years ago from a heart attack. Jubal died in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina and is buried there in Greenlawn Cemetery. He was 75 years old.



  Mary Alice (Dargan) Bradford (1825-1875), my paternal 3rd great grandmother, would have been 195 years old on this day. Born in the Sumter area of South Carolina, Mary was the daughter of  John Milton Dargan (1779-1847) and Samuel James Bradford (1815-1875).

Martha Dority Headstone
St, John's Methodist Chruch Cemetery,
Springhill, Sumter, South Carolina

April 15~
   The 115th anniversary of the death of my maternal 3rd great grandmother, Martha (Mathis) Dorrity (1820-1905) in Lee County, South Carolina.  Martha died at the age of 84 and is buried in St. John's Methodist Cemetery, Springhill, Lee, South Carolina.

Ransom Early Headston
Bethesda Presbyterian Chruch Cememtery
Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina

    My paternal Great Great Grandfather, Ransom Taylor Early (1829-1888) was born 191 years ago in North Carolina. Reseaech is continuing to find his parents.



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July 7 - July 13

July 8-

 My paternal 3rd great grandfather, William A. Martin (1813-1887) was born 206 years ago in North Carolina. William lived much of his life in the Statesville, Iredell County area and may have been born there too. 

William A. Martin
Headstone
Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina

July 13-

 My great-great grandmother, Bessie Mae (Eargle) Price (1878-1943) would be 141 years old. She was born in Aiken County, South Carolina and was the daughter of George David Eargle (1827-1886) and Elvira America (Booth) Eargle (1834-1898).

Bessie Mae (Eargle) Price
1878-1943
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November 12-November 18

Nov. 18~ 
  My paternal 3rd great grandfather, William A. Martin (1813-1887) died in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina 130 years ago. He is buried in Bethesda Presbyterian Cemetery in Statesville.

William A. Martin

Headstone

Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina

photo credit: Joy Steele. Used with permission

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September 15-October 1

September. 27~
  Matilda C. Martin (?-1876), my paternal 3rd Great Grandmother died 140 years ago in Iredell County, North Carolina. She is buried in the Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina.

Matilda C. Martin
Headstone
Bethesda Presbyterian Cemetery
Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina

 September 29~
 My maternal Grandfather, Gilbert Ernest Roberts, Sr. died 71 years ago. He was killed in action on the island of Peleliu while serving in the Marines during WWII.  He is buried in Quaker Cemetery, Kershaw, Camden, South Carolina. 

Gilbert Ernest Roberts (1920-1944)

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Wednesday's Child~James Ransom Early

"Budded On Earth to Bloom in Heaven"

James Ransom Early
1915-1916
Picture courtesy of FindAGrave contributor
Joy Steele
used by permission

                              Buried in Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina is the son of my                             paternal Great Grandfather, Jubal Ransom Early (1888-1964) and  second wife Nancy (Horton) Early (1892-?).  

                                 

Death Certificate of James Ransom Early
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                                                             Sadly, James died of intestinal problems at the age of 15 months. 

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Nov. 15-Nov. 21

   


Nov. 18~ 
  My paternal 3rd Great Grandfather, William A. Martin (1813-1887) died in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina 128 years ago. He is buried in Bethesda Presbyterian Cemetery in Statesville.

William A. Martin
Headstone
Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina

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Sept. 27-Oct. 3

Sept. 27~

     

   Matilda C. Martin (?-1876), my paternal 3rd Great Grandmother died 139 years ago in Iredell County, North Carolina. She is buried in the Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina.

                                

Matilda C. Martin
Headstone
Bethesda Presbyterian Cemetery
Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina

Sept. 29~

  

  My maternal Grandfather, Gilbert Ernest Roberts, Sr. died 71 years ago. He was killed in action on the island of Peleliu while serving in the Marines during WWII.  He is buried in Quaker Cemetery, Kershaw, Camden, South Carolina. 

Gilbert Ernest Roberts (1920-1944)

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Wednesday's Child- Infant Daughters

Double Marker for Emma and Minnie Early
Bethesda Presbyterian Church
Statesville, Iredell, NC
Photo courtesy of Joy Steele Findagrave.com

                " Infant daughters of R. T. Early and Ellen C. Martin"
 This double marker for Emma F. and Minnie B. Early does not have dates of birth or death.  According to church records Emma and Minnie Early were baptized in May 1880.
  The girls are buried in Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery Statesville, Iredell, NC

     Their parents, Ransom Taylor Early (1829-1888) and Ellen C. Martin (1850-1926), are my Great Great Grandparents.

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National Volunteer Week-Thanks Find a Grave Volunteers!

   In a post from Jen Baldwin at Ancestral Breezes  I learned that it was National Volunteer Week. Jen suggested that we remember to thank those that have helped us on our genealogy journey.

 I want to thank all the many who volunteer at Find A Grave.  For those who may not be familiar with the site, Findagrave.com is a virtual cemetery where volunteers collect and add information from cemeteries from around the world.
 It is a free site and easy to search.

 In the last few months I have been the recipient of  some of the fine work that these volunteers do.

 I was able to find out where my Third Great Grandparents, William A. and Matilda Martin were buried from a volunteer who photographed and made memorial pages for those buried in Bethesda Presbyterian Cemetery, Statesville, Iredell County, NC.
  All I had was a clue that they may have been buried in Statesville, NC.
 A search on Find A Grave led me right to them.
 Now I not only have where my Marin's are buried but where several other of the family members are buried  as well, including their daughter, my Great Great Grandmother Ellen Caroline Martin Early.
 The only information I had on Ellen Caroline Martin Early was that " it was thought that burial would take place in Statesville".
From the burials recorded on Find A Grave from this cemetery I learned that my Great Grandfather, Jubal Ransom Early, had been married before he married my Great Grandmother, Emma Ruth Baker, and had at least one child from that marriage.

Find A Grave Memorial
William A. Martin
1813-1887
Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Statesville, Iredell, NC

 The Memorial pages for this family and Memorials for other family lines I have found on this great website were graciously transferred over to me by those that had been maintaining them.
 I have made Memorial Pages for my family members who did not have one. In doing so I have come across wonderful photo volunteers.
 I now have pictures of many headstones that I did not have before.

One volunteer even was brave enough to patiently explain the importance of photographing headstones to a family who owned property where some of my family are buried. I have heard others have tried to get onto the private property that the Dargan Family Cemetery is on.Several have been told they could not have entrance in order to take pictures of the remaining headstones. I don't know what this particular volunteer did or what changed, but he was able to get the owners to let him gain access to the small cemetery. The photo's are now added to the Memorials on Find A Grave!

William Vaughn 1764-1857
Dargan Family Cemetery, Sumter, SC
Picture Courtesy Michael Dillingham,  FAG

 I have many similar stories of great volunteers who have helped me on Find A Grave.  From traveling many miles, taking pictures, transferring Memorials, photographing and making Memorials for whole cemeteries, to checking the cemetery office for me for available records, these are incredible people who are a true help to those of us who can't always travel to where our ancestors are buried.

  Now I want to pay if forward. I have signed up on Find A Grave to be a volunteer photographer for the cemeteries in my community.

 Thanks so much Find A Grave Volunteers and thanks Jen for making me aware of National Volunteer Month!


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