Tombstone Tuesday-Emma Frances Andrews, Sarah Devine and Ellis Ball

City View Cemetery

Salem, Marion County, Oregon

Emma Frances Ball was born in Lawton, Van Buren County, Michigan on 17 October, 1860 married to John Andrews no chidren died on 23 September, 1926 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon

Ellis Judson Ball was born in Kankakee, Illinois in 1855 married to Grace Randall and Evora Hawkins two children surviving to adulthood died on 6 June, 1929 in Salem, Oregon.

Sarah B. Ball born 22 November, 1851 in Porter, Van Buren, Michigan married to Lawrence Hiesrodt and Benjamin Devine both men were soldiers in the Civil War and both died of what seems to be consumption.  No children with either marriage.  Died 4 May, 1931 in Salem, Oregon   

Tombstone Tuesday-Etta Mae Ellison

My Paternal Grandmother, Etta Mae Smalley was born in Arago, Coos County, Oregon to parents Andrew Smalley and Emma Tillman the last of 14 children.  She was first married to James Albert Claude Freeman in 1923 and had 8 children two of them twin boys who died in infancy.  That marriage ended in divorce in the 1940's and remarried in 1953 to Arthur Ellison.  She is buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Medford, Jackson County, Oregon.

Tombstone Tuesday-Ballard, Daniel W. & Deliah A.

                                                                                    

Webber Cemetery

Jewell County, Kansas

Daniel W. Ballard
Died Aged 79 years
March 2, 1897

Inscription:
CO A 10 IA VOL INF


Delilah A. (Hollingsworth) Ballard
Born: Mar. 12, 1825

Death: Nov. 4, 1904

Tombstone Tuesday-Willis R. and Sarah E. May

Arcade Cemetery

North Plains, Washington County, Oregon

Willis Richard May was born June 4, 1867 in Story County, Iowa to parents James Monroe May and Susannah Arminta Ballard. He died October 31, 1954 in Banks, Washington County, Oregon.

Willis married:

Sarah Ellen Hutchison who was born March 22, 1871 in Boone County, Iowa to parents Daniel Hutchison, Jr. and Margaret McMillan Gilliland.

They married on April 11, 1889 in Washington County, Oregon and were the parents of 11 children with 10 of them surviving to adulthood.

Tombstone Tuesday - Andrew & Emma Smalley

Norway Cemetery, Norway, Coos County, Oregon

Andrew Smalley born April 3, 1853 in Falls Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. He died March 12, 1943.

Emma (Tillman) Smalley was born August 26, 1856 in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. She died February 26, 1923 in Coos County, Oregon.

They were married in May 30, 1873 in Tunkhannock and were the parents of 14 children! My Paternal Grandmother, Etta Mae, was their youngest child born in 1901. They were married 28 years when she was born.

Tombstone Tuesday - Halvor Johnson

Arcade Cemetery

North Plains, Washington County, Oregon

This stone stands out as a lonely burial admist a fairly well laid out cemetery. I have been intrigued by it for as long as I have been researching my family history. I have long suspected that this could be the son of a long lost family member. The location is amongst other relatives.

The epitath says:

"HALVOR

son of Capt. I and Rose Johnson

Born May 15, 1903"

Who is this? The only possible clue of the passing of a Halvor Johnson is from the Oregon Death Index (Ancestry.com) which lists:

Halvor Johnson died August 6, 1906 Coos County, Oregon. No indication of how old he was. I am ordering this from the Oregon Archives.

Rose B or Rosabelle May was born March 13, 1871 in Story County, Iowa and was the daughter of James and Susanna (Ballard) May. Rose is last found on the 1880 census of Sheridan County, Kansas. I cannot find this family in the 1885 census for anywhere in Kansas. The Mays along with the Hutchisons and many other family members left Kansas the summer of 1886 where then they settled and intermarried in Washington County, Oregon. They were a tight knit clan. No one in the family nor any of the other older family members (no longer living) knew what happened to her. Even though a family notebook that noted births, marriages and deaths of everyone she is a blank spot.

I have searched for Rose in every method and way imaginable. I have even searched variations of I. Johnson by trying Irvin, Ives, Ivor, etc. even using the word Captain. Nothing....

One clue that possibly Halvor could be Rose's son is her sister named her son Halvor. This name is not a common one used in the family. Part of my search indicates that Halvor maybe a Scandinavian name so kept the thought in mind that "I" could be Ivor or Ives.

Will await for the death certificate and will post later if I learn anything new.

Tombstone Tuesday - Margaret (Gilliland) Hutchison

Only known photo of Margaret Hutchison probably taken in the mid 1860's in Iowa.

Margaret McMillan Gilliland was born October 24, 1830 in Holmes County, Ohio daughter of Archibald and Margaret (Withrow) Gilliland. She married Daniel Hutchison, Jr. in Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa at her parents home on July 4, 1850.

They were the parents of 5 sons and 4 daughters with the youngest being my Great Grandmother, Sarah Ellen Hutchison. Margaret died in Oregon, Washington County on the 23rd of April, 1909. Arcade Cemetery was established in 1886 and is located on Old Pumpkin Ridge Road just north of North Plains, Washington County, Oregon where Daniel, Margaret and all of their children and many other cousins, etc. make their final resting place. Both the Gilliland and Hutchison families have been well traced and left many descendants that have taken a big interest in their roots. Through the years, I have been in contact with these distant cousins and one thing that resonates with these folks in their strong sense of family and kindness and upmost generosity in sharing their pictures and data.

Tombstone Tuesday-George Henry Freeman & Mary Elnora Hutchinson

George Henry Freeman was born June 22, 1852 in Quebec, Canada. Most likely in Brompton Gore. His parents were James Freeman and Phebe Woodard. Mary Elnora Hutchinson was born January 21, 1853 in Wayne County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Jesse and Eliza Hutchinson. George and Mary were married December 24, 1871 in Isabella County, Michigan and had several children. They were buried in Salt River Cemetery, Shepherd, Isabella County, Michigan.

Tombstone Tuesday - Zilpha Sanders Crader

Zilpha Sanders Crader

Born February 20, 1910

Died May 13, 1913

Only child of Phoeba Alice Maud Freeman and George Washington Sanders

Fallon Cemetery, Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada

Inscription "You have been called home, It was God's will"

Tombstone Tuesday - Martha Ann Alexander

Martha Ann (Alexander) Freeman Born February 13, 1864 in Fulton County, Ohio Died October 10, 1943 at Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada Buried at Fallon Cemetery, Churchill County, Nevada Daughter of Charles G. Alexander and Laura Welch