Kathy Wait Myers

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Tombstone Tuesday – Blue Mound Cemetery, Milford, Nebraska

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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 [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – Edwin William Waits (1892-1963)

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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My first findagrave.com experience

I finally feel like I’ve accomplished something!  At least something that I can share with the world…

I spent this afternoon posting burial information on Find A Grave!  Find A Grave is a site where you can add and request photos of the headstones of your ancestors.  This comes in really helpful for genealogy research not only [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – Mystery broken stone

Headstone?  Some other kind of marker?

This stone is placed between a Mother and Father WAIT in the Seward Cemetery, NE.  I took a picture of it, but don’t even know if it’s a tombstone.  It would be helpful if [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – misprints

My great grandmother Uella’s name was completely wrong on her headstone.  It seems like everyone in that generation had several names that they went by, but don’t you think they would make a point of getting it right the first time on a headstone?  Apparently, she was still alive then!  First, she loses her husband… [...]

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