By Kathy Wait Myers, on October 6th, 2009

James WAITS is my 5th great grandfather. In other words, he’s my grandfather’s grandfather’s great grandfather!
James was born in Berkeley County, Virginia (which is now West Virginia). His tombstone says he was born in 1760, but a deposition that I read in his Revolutionary [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on September 29th, 2009

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 [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on September 15th, 2009
Reason WAITS was my great great great grandfather James G WAITS’ brother, and the source of the letters that I quoted a couple of weeks ago in this post.
For some reason, Reason has been on my radar a lot this week so I thought it would be fitting to post these photos of his very [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on September 8th, 2009
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 [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on September 1st, 2009

Yesterday, I was drawn to my WAITS ancestors in Ohio and thought I would look through all of the records in www.findagrave.com that listed WAITS in Brown County, Ohio. It sorts them according to the name of the cemetery and I was almost immediately rewarded with [...]
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