Tombstone Tuesday - February 17, 2015 Harold and Kathyrn Hedger

Sarah Kathryn Florida Castor was born on August 4, 1907 in Hamilton County, Indiana.  She was the daughter of Howard Castor and Ida May McDonald. They resided in Noblesville, Indiana.  She married Harold Hedger on October 22, 1928.  Harold Hedger was the son of Charles Hedger and Cora Smith. He was born on January 27, 1907 in Pendleton, Indiana.

Harold Hedger  and Kathryn Castor Marriage license application

Harold died on February 13, 1988 in Brandenton, Florida.  Kathryn died February 19, 1995 in South Barre, Vermont according to her death record.  She was like at a son's home.

Happy Hunting,


Jan

Tombstone Tuesday - February 3, 2015

Charlotte Fox Morgan

 Charlotte Fox born in Canada around September 12, 1800.  I have yet to identified her parents.   She married David Morgan in Louth, Ontario.  They are recorded in the 1861 Ontario Census in Louth, Ontario.  By 1870, David has died and Charlotte has immigrated to Michigan where she is living with her daughter Susan Hayner in Romeo.  She is still residing with the Hayner family in Romeo at the time of the  1880 census as well in Romeo.
 
 She died on February 10, 1882 and is buried in the Romeo Cemetery.  Charlotte's stone is two pieces. The top piece read Charlotte wife of David Morgan and the bottom states that she died on February 10, 1882 at the age of 82 years, 5 months and 28 days.  All those years of living in Romeo, I wish I had known that we had relatives in this cemetery.  Now that I am living in Michigan, I plan to visit this cemetery next summer. 

Romeo Cemetery

Top half of stone

Bottom half of stone

David Morgan

 This photo is of David Morgan, Charlotte's husband.  Charlotte and David had three daughters all born in Louth Ontario.  They were Dorothy, Susan and Charlotte.  Dorothy and Susan married Hayner brothers, Robert Wesley and Thomas Hayner.  Both of these young Hayner families settled in Michigan. I am a descendant of the Robert Wesley linage.

Happy Hunting,
Jan

Long time...

It has been a long time since I have been here.  A lot of things have changed.  We moved.  I had to pack my genealogy stuff first and it went into storage for a few months.  We moved from Illinois to Michigan, about 7 1/2 hours away. We now live in a small farm town on Lake Huron.  It is quiet and much different than the suburbs of Chicago.  We love it!  Moving is a huge job after living in the same place for nearly 20 years.  It really consumed the whole year of 2014...between getting the Illinois house ready to sell, sell it, our belongings packed, a new house found and bought, belongs brought here and unpacked....I must say...I do not want to do that again. It took me months to unpack and put things away. So glad it is done!

I also had wonderful new distracts, like a fully planted garden.

Garden

Garden Bounty

Pumpkin patch

Raspberry patch

But best of all, I have three sisters and one brother who all live nearby.  We get to walk together, shop together and spent as much time as we want together.  I have lived away from them for 33 years.  It is like coming home! It is wonderful.  I did not realize that I filled so much of my time with other activities because I lived away from them.

Our new old home..

No sooner did we get here and begin to get settled and it was time to start canning the stuff from the garden.  Needless to say, my genealogy research was put on a back burner and that has been where it remained.

On Monday I will be going to Florida with my sister, Pam, to see my sister Sue and her husband Bob.  While we are there I will visit with a relative who will share with me old photo's from our Canadian Hainer and Densmore families. I am taking my PC and a portable scanner so I can scan them into my computer.  I am excited to get back at the hunt.

In April we will be traveling to Boston for the marathon (my brother will run it) and along the way we will stay in Niagara.  While there I plan to see Corlene Taylor, another Hainer relative so I can provider her with the Hainer photos.  She has wanted to get them for years but had no opportunity.  I am excited to be able to help her out.

So I am planning to start blogging again...regularly.

Happy Hunting,

Jan