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eemsreno

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Today I took a ride to a nearby cemetery to find my Great, Great, Great grandfathers grave site. He is buried about 10 miles away.




Then I went to a closer cemetery that has my Great, Great,Grandpa, My Great Grandpa , My Grandpa, and my Dad. About 5 miles away.

I guess I never stayed far from the nest that was started around here in 1853 By G,G,G,Grandpa John.
 

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I have great-not sure how many- great grand mother who was a Ripley believe it or not. Lived in 3 centuries. Born 1798 died 1901. Buried in Hamilton Iowa Cemetery.

No antibiotics and still lived over 100.
 

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I have great-not sure how many- great grand mother who was a Ripley believe it or not. Lived in 3 centuries. Born 1798 died 1901. Buried in Hamilton Iowa Cemetery.

No antibiotics and still lived over 100.
I may never die. Unless I go to Arkansas!
 

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I have the Ancestry of our family here in my hand and my G,G,G,G,G,G,G,G,G, Grandpa came to this country from France in Oct. 1688.

My G,G,G, Grandpa was the one that first moved here to Iowa. In1853
 
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I have great-not sure how many- great grand mother who was a Ripley believe it or not. Lived in 3 centuries. Born 1798 died 1901. Buried in Hamilton Iowa Cemetery.

No antibiotics and still lived over 100.
I have a couple of Great Aunts that managed that. 103 & 104, born in 1897 and 1898. My G Grandma, twin to one of the Aunts, was born in 1898 and died in 1999. Didn't quite make the 21st century, but she was fighting dementia, so I was glad she found peace in the end.

@eemsreno - GGG Grandpa grew a nice tree! Too bad it's gone now.
 

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very cool post..... like finding old cemetery's to explore , makes a nice Sunday ride in some very remote places at times .
 

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My family is so scattered..... When I was growing up....here, there, and everywhere....I thought everybody did the same. Unfortunately, my closest (geographical) relatives, which are my bio-parents, consider me the black sheep of the family. I think it'd pretty cool to have the whole famn damily living that close.
 

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My family came from a bunch of immigrants. They moved around and nobody really kept any records.
I had to move my parents out of their house last year. While we were going through everything I found my Grandmothers bible and these 2 pictures printed on metal plates
This is my Grandfathers family. He's the young boy on the left. He was born in 1897 in Tellico Planes, TN
The 2 adults are my great Grandfather and Grandmother. I never knew them or the others in the picture.
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My Grandmothers family came from Georgia. She is the baby 2nd from left.
She was born in 1911. I never knew my Great Grandmother in this picture or why there is no man in the picture.
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I grew up in Iowa and hey hey Big Bob I was born in Webster City, Hamilton County seat. Anyway I dated a girl in high school that liked beer and searching out old cemeteries. She wanted to do naughty things, 'I just said no', saving myself don't ya know.
 

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Most of my family came from SE Ohio near Gilmore/Gnadenhutten and there was all sorts of family lore, including that our name was an acronym for a group fighting the King of England. I got into Ancestry.com for a while several years ago which was interesting for a month or so. Found that none of the lore was true, my Dad's side was Dutch, and they were one of the first boats to settle in what was New Amsterdam on Staten Island in about 1609 iirc.

A good part of the family is on this hill top and someday I will be too. What's a cemetery without a canon and flag?
 

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About 8 years ago I got a casual interest in my G grandfather (1847 - 1879), after a little research I became obsessed with finding more information about him. I discovered that no one knew where he was buried, and so that became my quest.

After much research, help from a smart wife, and some incredible good luck we stumbled upon his unmarked grave site. I passed the hat with my family and we had a very nice headstone installed. (Lots of research on our part and on the part of the very helpful Mayor of the town he is buried in gave us "100% confidence" [words of the mayor] that it is indeed my ancestor buried in that plot.)

Some of the interesting things I found out about him was that he fought in the civil war (at 14 or 15 years old), was captured, escaped from a POW camp in Texas, and returned to his unit to finish the war, even though the "rush" was long over he followed gold fever to California, and met my G grandmother on his was to Cal. He panned a small fortune returned to Utah and married his sweetheart.
 
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