Genabloggers - Tombstone Tuesday - The Fergusons

 
Mound Cemetary, Jasper County, Illinois

John and Stella (Dolly) Ferguson were among the maternal great-grandparents
of my husband David Lee Peterson

Tombstone Tuesday - Garnett Ferguson

Garnett Ferguson
daughter of Murl and Naomi Ferguson
Mount Cemetery, Jasper County, Illinois

Tombstone Tuesday - Ferguson Family

The tombstone of my husband's maternal great-grandparents John and Stella "Dolly" Ferguson in Mound Cemetary, Jasper County, Illinois.

Tombstone Tuesday - Addie F Ferguson

Without finding this tombstone we  would not know about Clifford or Raymond.

Tombstone Tuesday - Agnes and Jacob Pabst

Cemetery of St Anthony Church, Oberselters, Nassau, Hesse, Germany. Some of their ancestors migrated to the United States. Most likely it was St Louis or Texas.

Tombstone Tuesday - War Memorial

Memorial to the soldiers from the village of Villmar, Germany who died in WWI. Caspari is the family name of my Great-great-grandmother.

Tombstone Tuesday - Burl Ives

Mound Cemetary, Hunt City Township, Jasper County, Illinois. The cemetary used by my husband's maternal ancestors, the Sempsrotts and the Fergusons.

This tombstone resides in the cemetery of St Anthony church in Oberselters, Nassau, Germany. Amazingly the Burbach family has lived in this tiny village for over 200 years. To be sure, remnants of the family have emigrated to the United States in the 1840s/50s. The destinations selected ranged from Milwaukee, WI to St Louis, MO, and the hill country of Texas.  My G-g-grandfather Georg left Oberselters about 1847 and settled in Villmar, Nassau, Germany where he met and married Catharina Caspari.  They has three sons before they emigrated to Milwaukee in 1856.  Sadly, their oldest son, Adam, was buried in Villmar in 1854.  George was one of eleven children which may explain why the family name still appears in the parish cemetery.

Anna Burbach

Anna Burbach - Oberselters, Nassau, Germany

In December of 2003 my husband and I traveled to Germany to visit our daughter and her family. While there, we made a visit to Oberselters, Nassau, Germany. My great-great-grandfather, Georg Burbach, traveled from Oberselters to Villmar and married Catharina Caspari in 1848. We were very lucky to find the family name still present in the cemetery in Oberselters. Usually one only retains a grave, in Germany, for 20 to 30 years.

Addie - too young

When we found this tombstone, we found two children we never knew about. It all happened between census reports.