Childhood Memorial Day Memories
I remember Memorial Days from when I was in elementary school, in Lebanon Indiana. School had just gotten out for the summer and so it was a day of celebration as well as remembering. This was in the days before …
Fred E. Pluff, World War Veteran
The veteran who was given the service medal I wrote about last was Fred E. Pluff. I have been working on developing a family tree for him in an effort to discover whether there are living descendants. It turns out …
A World War I Service Medal from My Town
In the beginning of February my local historical society received an inquiry about a medal found among a family’s other military keepsakes. The medal was from World War I, and had the town name and a soldier’s name on the …
Clifford Boothby Salt (1918-1983) – 52 Ancestors # 52 Resolution
Last year one of my resolutions was to write about my father, thinking that 2018 in December would be appropriate. He would have turned 100 years old on 16 December this year. When I started writing this post, I had …
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Susan Wilcox Justice – 52 Ancestors # 51 Nice
I have written previously about my 3g-grandmother Susan Wilcox Justice, but she meets the definition of nice for this week’s theme. Although she died before I was born, so I never met her, she was reportedly a gentle person, seeing …