This Week On My Family History Calendar

March 5-March 11

March 6~
       Martha Parnold Brazell (1795-1876), my maternal 4th great grandmother, died 141 years ago in Richland County, South Carolina. She is buried in the Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery.

Martha Parnold Brazell
Headstone
Old Macedonia Cemetery
Richland, South Carolina

March 8~
    Alice (Cook) Vaughn (1774-1859), my paternal 5th Great Grandmother died 158 years ago in Sumter County, South Carolina. She was buried in the Dargan Family Cemetery, which is now part of private property in the city of Sumter. 

Alice Cook Vaughn
Headstone
Dargan Cemetery
Sumter, South Carolina

March 9~
 My paternal Great Great Grandmother, Sarah Rebecca (Smith) Flemming Hudson (1835-1916) died 101 years ago in New Zion, Clarendon, South Carolina. Sarah died of influenza and was buried in the Midway Presbyterian Church Cemetery also in New Zion, Clarendon, South Carolina.

Sarah Rebecca (Smith) Flemming Hudson
Headstone
Midway Presbyterian Church Cemetery
New Zion, Clarendon, South Carolina

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Celebration Sunday~Genealogy Happy Dance!

You know the dance. You know you've done it. The one every researcher does after finding something new. The one where you want to jump up and down and shout to everyone around that you found the document, contacted a cousin who has the family Bible, made a DNA connection or found a whole new branch to your tree. The one that is met with glazed stares and eye rolls.
                                                          Celebration Sunday is a place to share your discoveries. 
This is a weekly series to enable everyone to tell about their Genealogy Happy Dance moment. This can be done by scrolling down and adding your story to the comments section. You may also put a link to a blog post.

                                                                 

My Happy Dance This Week:  
 A case of genealogy serendipity gave me chills a few days ago. After a post transcribing an ancestors letter, I asked if readers had any letters from theirs. A friend made recently at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy responded she had letters from an Uncle who had served in the South Pacific during WWII. 
Curious because my grandfather was killed on the Island of Peleliu in 1944, I asked where her uncle had served.
She responded that he also died in the battle of Peleliu.
His death date? Two days after my grandfather's.
Both served in the 1st Marine Division. My grandfather in the 7th Battalion, her uncle in the 5th. 
These battalions fought side by side on this small island. 
She shared a letter which was written to the family after the death of her uncle. It gave some details of the battle that took his life.
His experience on that small island in the South Pacific was most likely similar to the one that caused the death of my grandfather.
Two genealogists meet in a class in Salt Lake and discover they have loved ones killed tragically in one of the most bloody battles in the South Pacific. 
Chills. Genealogy Serendipity.
Weeping with the memory of lives lost too soon.
Dancing in celebration of the ties that bind. 

                                                                                     

                                                                                              Share your discovery!

                                                                                           Let the dancing commence!

Looking forward to reading about your Happy Dance moment!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Celebration Sunday~Genealogy Happy Dance!

You know the dance. You know you've done it. The one every researcher does after finding something new. The one where you want to jump up and down and shout to everyone around that you found the document, contacted a cousin who has the family Bible, made a DNA connection or found a whole new branch to your tree. The one that is met with glazed stares and eye rolls.
                                                          Celebration Sunday is a place to share your discoveries. 
This is a weekly series to enable everyone to tell about their Genealogy Happy Dance moment. This can be done by scrolling down and adding your story to the comments section. You may also put a link to a blog post.

                                                                 

My Happy Dance This Week:  Genfriends!

No matter if we've met in person or support each other online-

Thanks for your love and friendship Genfriends! 

                                                                                         

                                                                                              Share your discovery!

                                                                                           Let the dancing commence!

Looking forward to reading about your Happy Dance moment!

Thanks so much for stopping by!