27 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in Kentucky, Wednesday's Child
This was taken in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, KY. I suspect this was a baby from the Smyser family, since it is next to other stones with the Smyser name on them. See more Wordless Wednesday here.
26 Tuesday Feb 2013
Posted in Illinois, Taphophile Tragics
Well, it’s a bit of a mystery this evening as I type this post. I chose this photo because I thought this person’s name was unusual, Phelix Gilder, and was sure I could find some information ……
And then, nothing. He’s not even listed on Find-a-grave, so I think I’ll spend a bit of time tomorrow at work and see what I might be able to dig up. I found this marker in the Warrenville Cemetery in Warrenville, Illinois. So, I just may update this post soon.
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20 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in Kentucky, Wednesday's Child
I found this stone in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY. Unfortunately, the stone is so worn that no names are visible, but the three lambs tell me there are children buried here.
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18 Monday Feb 2013
Posted in Indiana, Taphophile Tragics
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Esther Wickersham, Wife of Isom Wickersham, Deceased 1st Month, 1st, 1896, aged 59 years, 6 months, 28 days. Her marker is found in the Old Carmel Cemetery in Carmel, Indiana.
On FindaGrave, someone had found more information about her husband, Isom. That person found this: Isom (called “Joshua” on the 1850 census) Wickersham was born 03 Jan 1833 in Wayne Co.,IN. He was the son of William G WICKERSHAM (B.16 Mar 1809/D.30 Jun 1855) and Idema A LLOYD (B.04 Jun 1836/D.01 Jan 1896). He married Esther E O’Reper on 07 Jul 1853 in Wayne Co., IN.
I found the Wickershams in the 1860 census, which shows Isom as a farmer, and lists him, Esther, and three children: Drodema (sp?), William and Mary. I found him again in the 1880 census, which lists his as “Isam” – and which lists him as a farmer, with Esther, his wife, and three children: William, Meary and Rachel.
It’s interesting to note that there were quite a few people with the last name Wickersham in the Indiana census, especially in the 1880 census.
13 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in Missouri, Wednesday's Child
In Mount Olivet Cemetery, Kearney, MO. 
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12 Tuesday Feb 2013
Posted in Illinois, Taphophile Tragics
Welcome to Week #9 of Taphophile Tragics on this blog! My list of links is Powered by Linky Tools . Please Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list… which will open in a new page (sorry ….. unless I pay for the full WordPress, this is the best the Linky can do).
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Clarissa E. Brown, wife of Charles R. Brown, died July 6, 1866. She’s found in Big Woods Cemetery in Eola, Illinois. And ….. I haven’t been able to find much else about her, unfortunately. At least her stone is still readable and in good condition.
08 Friday Feb 2013
Posted in Wisconsin
I saw this in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, WI and zoomed in to capture what was on this plaque:
In memory of dearly beloved Jacob Robert Nunnemacher, Born July 30, 1919, S/Sgt. Co. B 87th Mt. Inf. Regiment, 10th Division – U.S. Army, He died heroically in action, at Torre I’ussi – Italy, April 14th, 1945
Looking for more information on him, I found him mentioned on a page from Dartmouth University.
In his 2005 book, The Boys of Winter: Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War, Charles Sanders recalls how Jacob Robert Nunnemacher, son of a Milwaukee department store owner, chose to come to Dartmouth:
“Jake took one look at the Dartmouth Ski Team roster and knew it was the place for him. It was the Who’s Who of college ski racing, probably of all time. . . . Though Olympians Ted Hunter, Linc Washburn and Warren Chivers were among the stars who had graduated after leading the team to near sweeps of the U.S. collegiate races over the previous four seasons, Howard Chivers, Charles McLane, Percy Rideout, and Olympians Dick Durrance and John Litchfield all remained. . . . So off Jake went that fall to join the legendary Dartmouth ski circus.”
Their leader was Coach Walter Prager, a Swiss émigré and internationally recognized skier. At least, he was recognized by everyone but the U.S. government, which initially drafted him into the Coast Guard. His son, Kari Prager ’69, a California businessman, says, “He didn’t even know how to swim. In Switzerland all the lakes were freezing—recreational swimming was not something you did when he was growing up. . . . They were just kind of fussing around, getting him through training, when the 10th Mountain Division was started, and that division had a lot of hand-picked troops that knew how to ski, how to climb—knew something about Alpine sport. And so he was plucked out of the Coast Guard. And, because of his experience, they made him a sergeant.” Despite not knowing English well, and knowing less about the Army, First Sergeant Prager was ready to lead. Years later, Kari found among his father’s effects a Bronze Star he earned in combat; though his father never talked about it, friends said he earned it while shuttling food and ammunition to his troops in the midst of a mortar barrage.
The division entered combat in August 1943, securing the Aleutian Islands in Alaska from Japanese incursions. It was there that the first soldier with a Dartmouth connection, a former ski instructor named Roger Day Emerson, was killed in action. In December 1944, the 10th crossed the continent and the Atlantic Ocean to fight in the European theater. Well regarded for their thorough training, they joined the effort to recapture the Italian mainland, in particular the strategic, fortified enemy points that lay along the spine of the Appenine Mountains in northern Italy. Dartmouth soldiers again distinguished themselves; several at the cost of their lives. In February 1945, Staff Sergeant Roger William Herrick ’40 was felled by shrapnel while attacking a German machine gun nest on Mt. Belvedere. In April, three more alums—First Lieutenant Robert Whitbeck ’31, Captain Joseph Jonathan Duncan ’40, and Sargeant Jake Nunnemacher ’40—were killed over the course of ten days in a final, successful move to crush the German resistance.
At that point, the war was largely over for the 10th Mountain Division. German forces surrendered in early May, and the Japanese the following August. One hundred and two men of Dartmouth came home and—like McLane who earned his doctorate and taught, and Prager who coached the 1948 U.S. Olympic ski team—got on with their lives.
I also found a really interesting story about the 10th Mountain Division on NPR, as well as an entire Wikipedia article.
06 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in Wednesday's Child, Wisconsin
Kenosha, WI. See more Wordless Wednesday and Wordless Wednesday bloggers.
05 Tuesday Feb 2013
Posted in Illinois, Taphophile Tragics
Welcome to Week #10 of Taphophile Tragics on this blog! My list of links is powered by Linky Tools — Please Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list… which will open in a new page (sorry ….. unless I pay for the full WordPress, this is the best the Linky can do).
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Ephram, son of Richard and Eliza Joles, dies June 27, 1888. Died at the age of 12 Yrs, 11M, 14D.
Found on Find-a-Grave — “The remains of Ephraim Joles, a gipsy lad 12 years of age, who died June 27 at Tracy, Lyon county, Minn., were brought here yesterday and interred in Oak Ridge cemetery. IL State Register, Springfield, IL 7-3-1888”
He is buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. Although he is missing his head now, what is left of the figure is still quite striking.
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