Yesterday, I went to Nine Mile Prairie for my first Artist’s Date (more on that later). Nine Mile Prairie is basically a piece of land (230 acres) that has never been plowed. It’s covered with natural prairie grasses and native trees and is one of the largest of its kind in the Midwest. It strikes me [...]
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I finally found James G and Susannah (Susan) WAITS and family in the 1870 Census! They’re in Ohio for the 1860 census and in Nebraska by 1880. So I decided to look at every census form of anyone with a name anything like WAITS. There they were in Illinois, of all places! Pittsfield in Pike [...]
Stork Shows He Still Runs Pretty Fast A Lincoln woman staged a race with the stork at 3 a.m Wednesday, but even with the aid of her husband, a cab driver, and two police officers, she still lost the contest, though only by a few yards. Mrs. Willie [...]
I took a little trip to Milford today to take a couple of photos for people on www.findagrave.com. One of the requests was for a military stone and the requester mentioned that it might just be a stone with his ancestor’s name and military information on [...] I thought it would be fitting today to show you Edwin William Waits’ tombstone, since he was a major part of my day yesterday. Edwin was born in Milford, Seward, Nebraska, USA and died in Marion, Oregon, USA. It’s my understanding that he was married with kids. Was it common back then to take someone’s body [...] |
  
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