Virtual Cemeteries

Virtual Cemeteries

I created several Virtual Cemeteries on Find A Grave.

My Virtual Cemeteries

Dick Henthorn

22 May 2020

New Search on Find A Grave

New Search on Find A Grave

Find A Grave has announced a new more robust search option.  Here's a link to the announcement.

New Search on Find A Grave

Dick Henthorn

24 Oct 2019

The Fun of Sharing

John Ogden posted a Facebook request for a photo of William Henry Montgomery of Monroe Co., OH. I posted information about him from Find A Grave to my file. During that process I made a discovery and linked a daughter of William to the Jeffers, Jackson and Henthorn families that I have worked on for many years. Here's what I wrote to John Ogden. William Harvey Montgomery and Sarah Ann Stephens had a daughter, Margaret Maudena Montgomery, b. 17 Apr 1871 in Monroe Co., OH. I found her in Find A Grave. Here's the fun for me. She married James L. Jeffers, no date of marriage. He was born on 19 Aug 1863 in Monroe Co., OH. Surname is also spelled, Jeffries. I don't know if the couple had children. The paternal grandmother of James L. Jeffers was Deborah (Jackson) Jeffers whose grandparents were: Robert Jackson, Sr. and Mary Ann (Henthorn) Jackson. Some of the Jacksons became LDS and went to Utah. Years ago I worked on Jackson genealogy with Judge Norman Jackson of Salt Lake City. I met face to face with Norman a couple of times when he was in Washington, DC.. Dick Henthorn 18 sep 2018

Glesenkamp, Conger, Schumacher

I just discovered any interesting link on Find A Grave. Mary Glesenkamp, daughter of William Wilson Glesenkamp and Eliza Melissa Taylor, married John Ambrose Schumacher. Mary had a sister, Ruth Glesenkamp, who married James Abraham Conger.

John and Mary Schumacher lived in Woodsfield, Monroe Co., OH.

James and Ruth Conger lived in Delaware, Delaware Co., OH.

Several years ago I worked on the Conger family in general. In my Conger file I have information about James and Ruth Conger. Some of my Conger work is available online, hosted by a Conger friend.

Right now I am working on the Schumacher family of Woodsfield, Monroe Co., OH and Allegheny Co., PA. Does anyone have a summary style descendant list for the Schumacher family?

Dick Henthorn
26 Jul 2018

Using Find A Grave Cemetery IDs

Using Find A Grave Cemetery IDs

Find A Grave assigns each cemetery an ID number. Currently there isn't a way to search on a known cemetery ID.

When I asked about this on the Find A Grave Facebook page I was provided with a tip that will be very useful.  You can go directly to a cemetery by adding the ID number to the URL for cemeteries.

For example, I've been working with the cemetery assigned the ID number 212241. Here's a link to the cemetery using that ID number.

Senecaville, Guernsey Co., OH, Salem Baptist Church Cemetery

Here's what the URL looks like:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/212241

So, if you know the ID number of some other cemetery, just replace "212241" with your ID of interest and you can go directly to that cemetery.

Which reminds me of another tip, that I came up with on my own. In the RootsMagic place name list you can record information about a place. When I obtain cemetery details from someone else or from Find A Grave I like to record that information in the Place List "text" field. I'm going to try to form the habit of recording the cemetery ID number as part of that information. This will help me when I want to quickly go to a particular cemetery on Find A Grave.

Here's what I recorded in the Place List text field for the Salem Baptist Church Cemetery.

Note: 

This cemetery is called, Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Senecaville, Guernsey Co., OH on FindAGrave. Catharine (Foreaker) Fedorchak) in her Foreaker genealogy mentions it at least a dozen times as, Salem Baptist Cemetery and on page, 4b, lists the location as Richland Twp., Guernsey Co., OH.

Researcher, Richard E. Henthorn also believes it is located in Richland Twp., Guernsey Co., OH and as of Jan 2017 was called Salem Baptist Church Cemetery.
FINDAGRAVE: Cemetery ID# 212241

Dick Henthorn
5 Jan 2018

Find A Grave Issues

Find A Grave Issues

Here are a few Find A Grave issues that are driving me crazy.

1. Some people enter middle initials without a period.  This impacts searches.
2. West Virginia didn't become a state until 20 June 1863.  Place names for events prior to that should be entered as: Virginia or Virginia/West Virginia
3. I like to see women's maiden names in italics, i.e., Joan Melissa Doe Jones.

Dick Henthorn

14 Nov 2017

Find A Grave Corrections

This evening I took a look at the messages I've received on Find A Grave.

I've received many responses to messages I sent pointing out typos, inconsistencies and errors in the hundreds of memorials I have visited since I became a member. I'm pleased to report that almost everyone graciously acknowledged my comments and many indicated that they made the necessary changes.

A couple of respondents pointed out that I could make the changes myself using the Edit tab. I haven't learned how to do that yet. I'm uncomfortable changing the work of someone else unless I am in contact with them. Apparently, the way it works is the person who finds the error makes the correction and then it's forwarded to the person in charge of the memorial for review and approval. This speeds up the process and relieves the workload on those managing the memorials. Maybe I'll try that next time. There are always things to learn.

Dick Henthorn
27 Mar 2017

The Ancestry Insider: The New and Improved Find A Grave Shown at #RootsTech

The Ancestry Insider: The New and Improved Find A Grave Shown at #RootsTech:

A new version of FindAGrave will be released soon.  Here's a blog post that discusses what's planned and when it will happen.

Dick Henthorn
23 Mar 2017

'via Blog this'

John Woodrow Richmond and Helen Lucille Postlewaite

John Woodrow Richmond and Helen Lucille Postlewaite

Recently I prepared a 9-page PDF report about the family of John Woodrow Richmond and Helen Lucille Postlewaite and shared it to, my membership only, Henthorn Genealogy page on Facebook.

I worked on the Richmond family for many years.  More recently, I began compiling information about the Postlewaite family (There are several spellings for the last name, Postlewaite.)

The descendants of this couple have links to: Cecil; Dakan; Goddard; Parsons; Thomas; Weekly; Wood; Wykert; Yeater; and Yoho to name a few. Below I'm sharing the information I have recorded in the individual records of the couple.

I often record Social Security Numbers in my file.  I have a switch set to leave out the SSN when I create a report. You can see how that looks in the information about John Woodrow Richmond.

If this family is of interest, and you are willing to reciprocate, contact me to arrange sharing of information.

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John Woodrow RICHMOND was born on 14 Feb 1915 in Newdale, Wetzel Co., WV. He died on 11Nov 1977 at the age of 62 in New Martinsville, Wetzel Co., WV. He was buried in Nov 1977 in New Martinsville, Wetzel Co., WV, Northview Cemetery.

John Woodrow Richmond

PARENTS: Parson Seth Richmond and LaSena Florence Phillips

MARRIAGE: 10 Sep 1935 (25/312). No location given.
(Source: Ohio Valley Richmonds - Their Kith and Kin, Ethel L. Briggs, 1976, p. 83)

Problem: Was the middle name, Woodrow or Woodroe?

SS Death Index: John Richmond; b. 14 Feb 1915;issued: WV; d. Nov 1977; last place of residence: New Martinsville, WV; zipcode: 26155;

FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 55418177


John Woodrow RICHMOND and Helen Lucille "Lucille" POSTLEWAITE were married on 10 Sep 1935 in Wetzel Co., WV. Helen Lucille "Lucille" POSTLEWAITE, daughter of General Sherman POSTLETHWAITE and Eva Myrtle BERDINE, was born on 14 Jun 1920 in Pine Grove, Wetzel Co., WV. She died on 22 Mar 2010 at the age of 89 in New Martinsville, Wetzel Co., WV. She was buried in Mar 2010 in New Martinsville, Wetzel Co., WV, Northview Cemetery.

Helen Lucille Postlewaite

PARENTS: General Sherman Postlethwaite and Eva Myrtle Berdine
(Furnished by Richard E. Henthorn)

AKA: Lucille

FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 52241462

CHILDREN: Eleven


Richard E. Henthorn
7 Sep 2016

'via Blog this'

J. Roscoe "Ross" Tennant

J. Roscoe Tennant

PARENTS: Mahlon Tennant and Sarah Ellen Lemley

AKA: Ross; His first name is not revealed in his genealogy publications or on FindAGrave.
(Furnished by Richard E. Henthorn)

RESEARCHER: J. Roscoe Tennant, using the name, J. Ross Tennant, published at least three volumes of genealogy which were digitized by Google.  Some pages from a fourth volume is on Google books.
The title of the first volume was Memories of J. Ross Tennant and a Genealogy of the Family Originated by Richard Tennant.  Volume One is dated, 1942, Volume Two is dated, 1945, Volume Three is dated, 1946. All three volumes are included in one Google Books file.  There is no easy way to move from one volume to the next.  You just need to scroll through the pages.

URL: For the Google Books volumes.
https://books.google.com/books?id=EztWAAAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA48&dq=webb%20k.%20tennant&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=webb%20k.%20tennant&f=false

or use this TinyURL
http://tinyurl.com/gtpgul2
(Furnished by Richard E. Henthorn)

COMMENT: See the bottom of Page 27 in Volume One for the ancestry of J. Roscoe Tennant.  His name isn't listed.  He wrote, "I was born October 16, 1878." Note that some of the dates in this ancestry list do not agree with dates listed elsewhere.
Richard Tennant, Sr., 1744
Richard Tennant, Jr., 1777
Asa Tennant, 1816
Mahlon Tennant, 1845
J. Roscoe Tennant, 1878
(Furnished by Richard E. Henthorn)

RECOLLECTIONS: Boyhood Days
I am now almost sixty-three years of age, and have lived in a period of wonderful changes. I can remember when there was but one wagon on Jakes Run, and it belonged to Uncle Josey Tennant. My father often borrowed it to go to mill. In fact the whole community used it until they wore it out.

I remember the first bicycle on Jake's Run; a man from Mount Morris was riding it. My brothers and myself chased him almost to Mooresville, just to see him ride the thing. We couldn't understand how he kept on top of it. There was one big wheel, with a small one behind it. This was a wonderful sight for us.

I remember my father's first mowing machine, it was a "Woods;" and my mother's first sewing machine; I think it was a "Howe". I can remember watching mother spin wool into yarn. She had a large wheel and a small one, that she run with her foot. There was a reel on which she used to make her yarn into skeins. Many pairs of socks did she knit for us kids. I remember her knitting needles flashing in the light of * candle, or the light of a wood fire in the fireplace. By the fireplace sat an oven in which our bread was baked, and over the fire hung a crane, with iron hooks, on which she places pots and kettles containing meat, beans, potatoes, cabbage or whatever our mother might be preparing for us to eat. With the oven she made flat cakes, corn dodgers and apple cobblers. She often made berry dumplings in an iron pot. I will not say here what we boys used to call this, but you may guess if you want to. I wonder if any of the young people of today ever ate dried apples, or pumpkin dried on a pole and then cooked in winter, seasoned with butter and salt. Our mother was a wonderfully good cook, and anything she prepared for us was good enough for a king. God bless her!

I remember seeing father "walk" back-logs into the house on end, and dumping them in the back of the fire-place, which was about five feet long and three feet across the end. He then placed the andirons in front, and on them a fore-stick, and between the two enough dry wood to make a hot fire. When the back log got to burning good, it was fun to punch the fire with the shovel, and make the sparks fly up the chimney; and we often got burned at this game when embers would fly out of the fire-place. There were many black spots on the floor burned by hot hickory coals. Many fine timber trees were burned in fire places to make heat for the households of the community; but at that time they were good for nothing else but fuel.

We boys got one pair of boots a year, and they were often worn out before Spring came. Many times 1 have gone after the cows in the early Springtime barefoot, and when I would find the cows lying down I would scare them up and stand in the place they had been lying to warm my feet. Then the cows had to hustle into the milk yard, so I could get back to the fire.

I remember when we used to break young steers for oxen. We first broke them to the yoke, then we would hitch them to something, and teach them to work for us. We sometimes broke them to ride. My brother Nelson was riding one of the oxen past where Perry Moore lived, and his dog ran out and scared the ox. Nelson swore he went high enough to see Uncle Josey Tennant sitting in the entry of his house over Perry Moore's corn crib.

I remember my brothers Luther and Lem hauling hay in the bottom below the house. They drove the oxen into a swampy place, and the near ox got in the mud so deep they had to take him out of the yoke. Luther told Lem he would take Buck's place and help Berry pull the sled, and he stuck his head through the bow. Just then Lem felt a devilish streak and he jabbed Berry with the pitchfork; and Luther said he damn near broke his neck.

I remember the time that Arzie and I were throwing corn cobs at anything we could see. A fine large rooster was standing near us with his head up, and Arzie said, "I can come nearer hitting that rooster than you can." I threw one at the rooster, never thinking of hitting him. But so help me St. Pat I did hit him and killed him. My father saw this occur, and what I got was a caution to snakes.

I remember one time when Jasper Ammons came to Uncle Rod's Store with butter and eggs which were traded for groceries, such as sugar, coffee, etc. He said to me, "If you will go a piece with me we will eat some of the sugar." I went and we did eat some of the sugar; so much of it, in fact, that when Jasper got home his mother whaled him like all get out; and that night I had an, awful belly-ache, for the sugar did not agree with me.

I remember Loran Robinson, and I think he was about my age. His father, Frank, worked on a saw-mill close by our house, and Loran would often come with his father and play with us boys. One day we fell out over something and had a fight. Loran got the best of me, and I resolved to get even with him. When it was time for him to go home I was eager to go a short ways with him. I put a string on our pet lamb, and started with Loren, leading the lamb. We had the lamb trained so that if one of us pointed our finger at another person, the lamb would do his best to butt that one over. We didn't go very far until I let the lamb go and climbed the fence, and then pointed at Loran with my finger. The lamb knocked him down the first punch, and every time he would get up the lamb would knock him down again. I repented, and tried to get Loren to lay still, but he was scared and paid no attention to me. Someone came along, I think it was Dug Tennant, and took the lamb off of Loran. My Dad gave me a good old time lambasting, which I very well deserved.

When 1 was twelve years old my brother Arzie was fourteen, and Jud my younger brother was ten. What one didn't think of the other did. Almost every day in summer we were in swimming. We found a place in our swimming hole where there was blue mud, and we would cover ourselves with this and run foot races up and down the road. We didn't care a snap who saw us; in fact those who did see us laughed at us and didn't care either.

I remember when Arzie and I would carry a bushel basket of corn to the hog lot and pile it up. There were usually four hogs in the lot. When they would gather around the corn to eat, we would each grab one by the hair and jump on him, and we got many a hard fall.

Our days were not all sunshine, by any means. As each of us became old enough we were put to work in the corn field, or at what ever other work there was to do. I am glad to say that my brothers
all turned out to be good citizens, and are now grand-parents to children who are as old as we were at the time of which I write.
(Furnished by J. Ross Tennant, Vol. I, p. 54-6)

COMMENT:
Before closing the work of this book of history, genealogy and memories [Vol. I] I wish to make this statement. I have made an effort to get family records and history o families of Tennants and others connected with them, but in many instances I could not get replies to my inquiries.

The death of Thomas Ray Dille, who was making an effort to get a genealogical history of the Tennant family, has caused quite a set back in this work. However, I am now depending largely on W. B. Haught of Blacksville to complete our genealogy, and he has done a very nice job, so far. He has, very probably, the most complete record of our family in existence ; but it is not nearly complete. Every person who sees this statement, and has any family record connected with the Tennant family, should send it to Mr. Haught. His records, which he has offered to make and give to our organization, could be a very valuable asset to our family records.
J. Ross Tennant
(Furnished by J. Ross Tennant, Vol. I, p. 63)

FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 43998944

George W. Goddard

George W. Goddard

Today I worked on the family of George W. Goddard of Audrain county, Missouri.  He was mentioned in three lines on page 8 of the typed version of the 13 Nov 1899 genealogy letter written by Samuel Godard [Note: Samuel spelled his own surname, Godard.].

George W. Goddard was born on 22 Jul 1812 in Greene Co., PA and he died on 30 Nov 1873 in Audrain Co., MO.  His parents were Francis "Frank" Goddard and Hannah. He was married to Barbara A. Hepler who was born on 28 Oct 1822 in Lawrence Co., OH and died on 4 Feb 1906 in Audrain Co., MO.  They are buried in Mexico, Audrain Co., MO at the Elmwood Cemetery, Section H, Plot 106.

They had the following eight children:  Amanda; Eliza A.; Belle; Mary; Albert C.; Francis M. "Frank;" Laura; and Lena.  The names of: Amanda, Laura and Lena are on the the same tombstone.

George W. Goddard has FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 69607221

Dick Henthorn
3 Mar 2016

Hartshorn

I'm working on recording some information about the Hartshorn family of Wayne Township, Monroe Co., OH.  There was a link to Mobberly that got me interested  Many members of the family are buried at the Hartshorn Ridge Cemetery. FindAGrave records many of the burials.  Unfortunately many of the memorials don't list the parents of the deceased making it difficult to link the family members.

Has anyone else worked on the genealogy of this family?  Are you willing to exchange information?

Dick Henthorn
20 Oct 2015

Clegg Family

I continue to work on The Clegg Family project.  I'm extracting some of the information from the Clegg book by Blaine L. Clegg.  Some information is coming from FindAGrave.

There are links between the Clegg family and the Henthorn and Atkinson families.  I used RootsMagic drag and drop to import the Atkinson information from their file into my Charts file where I am working on the Clegg family.

At this point I have just over 200 pages of Clegg information.  I'm not certain about how much time I'm willing to spend on this project.  For the moment I'm finding the project interesting.

Dick Henthorn
7 August 2015

150th Anniversary of the Assassination of President Lincoln

Today, 14 Apr 2015, marks the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC.

Everton Conger played a role in tracking down John Wilkes Booth.  Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the part he played.

Everton Conger

Here are links to other articles I posted in the past.

Everton Judson Conger

Everton Judson Conger

Everton Judson Conger

Here's the FindAGrave link

[Note: I noticed that there is a broken link to one of my Conger reports included in the Wikipedia article. What a surprise!  [I didn't post that link.] I'll need to do some review to determine if I can fix this problem.  Perhaps an ancestor report for Everton Conger would be more appropriate.]

Dick Henthorn
14 April 2015

Don Knotts of West Virginia

Yesterday, folks on Facebook, were talking about the genealogy of comedian/actor Don Knotts of West Virginia.  As usual, what they posted was difficult to follow. I begin to think that I had one of his ancestors in my file. I asked for clarification. I was able to compare the answer with the information available on FindAGrave. It matched.  I did in fact have an ancestor in my file.

I keyed in enough of the available information to allow me to easily generate an ahnentafel report for Mr. Knotts. As time and interest permits I'll return to the FindAGave information and fill in more details.

Dick Henthorn
31 March 2015

Lemley and Headlee

The Lemley and Headlee families lived in the area of Mount Morris, Greene Co., PA.  There were a number of marriage between the two families

Eva Catherine Yoho, daughter of Johannas Yoho and Susanna Catherine Lau, married George Lemley, the son of David Lemley and an unknown mother.

Because of my interest in the Yoho family I also worked on the Lemley family for many years.

In the last couple of days there has been some discussion of the Lemley family on the Greene county Group on Facebook.

I'm working on a project to add information from FindAGrave to what I have about the Lemley and Headlee families.  At this point I have enough information to produce a 695-page descendant report for George Lemley and his descendants.

Dick Henthorn
25 March 2015

FindAGrave

I've been making good use of the memorial posts that others have done on FindAGrave. I thank them for their efforts.

I've created a few Virtual Cemeteries and I have shared suggestions for corrections with some of the people who posted.

I haven't created any memorials myself.

I'm frustrated by the number of inconsistencies I'm finding in what folks post. I'm not sure yet what is causing so many problems to crop up.  My initial inclination is to blame the problems on the failure to proofread the work.

Checking three things would improve the quality of what's being posted.

Compare:

• The dates of birth and death posted at the top of the memorial with
• Dates of birth and death listed in any shared obituary information with
• Dates of birth and death shown on any tombstone photographs.

If there's a typo fix the problem.  If the dates come from various sources and you can't be certain which is correct, make a comment in the "text" to let your reader know that you are aware of the inconsistency.

Dick Henthorn

5 March 2015

Rudolph Lemley and Jemima Pyles

Some information about Rudolph Lemley and Jemima Pyles was shared on the Greene county, PA page on Facebook.  There was a scan of a newspaper article about Jemima and a one-page scan of a page of typed genealogy. I've been working on this family for a couple of days.  I had the wife's surname as, Piles.  There is some good information about members of this family on FindAGrave.  They lived around Mount Morris, Greene county, Pennsylvania and Pentress, Monongalia county, West Virginia.

Dick Henthorn
24 January 2015

Projects

I'm working on some genealogy projects with my Yoho file.

Recent changes included:

• adding some Cunningham and Wiley information
• adding some Watson information
• adding Goudy information
• expanding the Henthorn, Higginbotham, and Ice information

There is more information available than I can process.  FindAGrave is proving to be a very useful resource.

If these surnames are of interest you may contact me for more details. I'm usually willing to exchange information provided the exchange is mutually beneficial.

Dick Henthorn
23 November 2014

FindAGrave

I've been learning more about FindAGrave.

My member number is: (#48542447)

My Profile Page

Here's a search box for the application.

Search 123.3 million cemetery records at by entering a surname and clicking search: Surname:

I created several Virtual Cemeteries. This kind of cemetery doesn't actually exist. Rather, it's a collection of links to the graves of people of interest. I populated two of the Virtual Cemeteries I created.  One is for members of my maternal line, the Hagstrom and Carlson family, and the other is for my paternal line, the Henthorn family.

Carlson and Hagstrom Cemeteries

Henthorn Cemeteries

I made Find A Grave Friends with several people who have made extensive posts about families of interest.  Friends show up in each member's profile.

Dick Henthorn
14 October 2014