My ggg-grandmother Hester Jane (Ingram) Hicks was born in Crowan, Cornwall, England in 1822, and died on October 24, 1889, in Scales Mound, Jo Daviess Co, Illinois. When she was 20 years old, she married Henry Hicks. The marriage took place in Cornwall, England, on March 28, 1842. According to her son Alfred’s biography published…
Category: cemetery
Singer Catholic Cemetery
I’ve been wanting to visit Singer Catholic Cemetery in Guilford Twp, Illinois. Clement, the infant brother of my great-grandmother, Viola (Bausman) Davis Hickman, is buried here. I tried to find this cemetery by myself but was unable. Fortunately, my mom’s friend Tom Townsend had been to the cemetery and graciously volunteered to take my parents…
Biography: William Passmore
William Passmore is not a direct ancestor of mine. His daughter Elizabeth Edna Passmore married James T. Davis, a nephew of my gg-grandfather John B. Davis. Passmore was the coroner for the suicide of William Davis, brother of James T. Davis. His ties to the Davis family are why I’m posting his biography published in…
Rebecca (Firestone) Smith Headstone – Thank You RAOGK.org!
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness is a fantastic website where dedicated volunteers agree to do a free genealogy research task at least once per month in their local area purely as an act of kindness. I’ve used the website three times and am always amazed when they are able to get my information. In July…
Cemeteries
I’ve added cemetery pages for Pioneer Cemetery in North Judson, Indiana Mount Calvary Cemetery in Dubuque, Iowa Linwood Cemetery in Dubuque, Iowa There are Lightcaps buried in all three of these cemeteries. In addition to Lightcaps, family names at Mount Calvary include Strelesky, Sanders, Uhlrich, and Heitz. Linwood Cemetery has Uhlrich, Hatzenbuhler, Hornung, and Woodward….
Forgotten History 