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Stephanie 🍁🍂🦃
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Baker by day, genealogy and tombstone blogger by night.
New post up at the Southern Graves blog is about the 1876 #killing of prominent cotton buyer William Thomas McVay of Cochran, #Georgia. See >> tinyurl.com/yvzhvpfj

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! 🍂

#crimeandcriminals #reconstructionera #southerngraves
Killing of William Thomas McVay (1876)
Homicide at Cochran, Georgia William Thomas McVay was born on 24 August 1835. He married Martha Ella Linder in Laurens County, Georgia, on 4...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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As is now traditional at this time of year, we are pleased to announce our special Black Friday offer: One year’s membership of the the Society for #OnePlaceStudies, with all of its brilliant benefits, for the same bargain price that it has been ever since we launched – just £10! #OnePlaceWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
3 little #lambs.

Children of Dr. Thomas Frank & Nancy Williams Walker.

Cedar Hill #Cemetery in Cochran, Bleckley County, #Georgia.

#littlelamb #sufferthelittlechildren #cemeteryphotography #southerngraves
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
M. W. Rogers
b. Apr 2, 1853
d. Mar 9, 1885

What to me is life without thee
Darkness and despair alone
When with sighs I seek to find thee
This #tomb proclaims that thou art gone

Cedar Hill #Cemetery in Cochran, Bleckley County, #Georgia

#epitaph #cemeteryphotography #fingerpointingup
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
She's definitely owning it! 🤎
She is in her domain… #caturday
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This box is way cooler than the stuff it came with. Cozy, too. 🤗

Happy #Caturday, y'all. 🐈‍⬛

#catsofbluesky #cozykitty #thegrinchismyteddybear
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Raindrops cling to the velvet white #magnolia.

Image taken at Greensboro City #Cemetery in Greene County, #Georgia.

#cemeteryphotography #magnoliabloom #nature #flower
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Congratulations! 🎉 It's beautiful.
My photo of "Foggy Mountain" finished in 2nd place in the fineartamerica photo contest "Leaves on the Ground" out of 279 images submitted this week! #trail #ElkKnob #fog #foggy #autumn #fall #blueridgemountains #WataugaCountyNC #WataugaCounty #hiking #landscape #photography #bluemoonistic
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I didn't know Basil or Virgie, but the ceramic photo on their #mausoleum marker is downright adorable. (Cedar Hill #Cemetery in Cochran, Bleckley County, #Georgia)

#ceramicphoto #porcelainpicture #cemeteryphotography
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
New post up at the Southern Graves blog. It's about the old jail (1807-1895) in Greene County, #Georgia, and the lone #execution that took place there in 1873. (Spoiler alert: it was botched.) tinyurl.com/wktknn7j

#georgiahistory #history #crimeandpunishment #deathpenalty #historicalmarker #oldjail
Execution of George Copelan (1873)
Behind the Greene County courthouse in Greensboro, Georgia, stands an old rock jail. It was built in 1807 and remained in use until about 18...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A Good Man
A Devoted Husband
A Loving Father

He Served His Country In Combat
Territory During World War II

In Sacred Memory Of
Edward Copelan Evans
April 1, 1913 - February 9, 1948

Greensboro City #Cemetery, Greene County, #Georgia

(Parents to follow.)

#epitaph #cemeteryphotography #WorldWarII
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
You ask me to conform to your life, your sleep schedule, then you get me up at this ungodly hour. ⏰ Why, lady, why? 🥱🐈🐾

🎶Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr🎶

#catsofbluesky #softkitty #sleepykitty
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Gravestones for Martha (l) & son Robert Goodlow Harper (r), who d. at age 2 yrs & 10 mos. Robert's stone bears a caterpillar on a leaf below a butterfly: he was a caterpillar on earth, but transformed to a butterfly in heaven (my interpretation). -- Greensboro City #Cemetery, Greene County, Georgia.
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
😇❤️
Northern cemetery, Kiel
I know it's kitsch, but somehow I like it, so lost between the trees
#visualzen #kitsch
#modernart #photography
#kiel #cemetery #autumn
#derechtenorden #schleswigholstein
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Two more obituaries posted to the Southern Graves blog -- Mrs. Sarah D. Willis, d. 1859, and her step-son Edwin S. Willis, d. 1842.

"Our Mother's gone, She sleeps in Jesus."

"Like the snow drop on the river,
A moment white -- then gone forever."

tinyurl.com/mj97hhrp

Greensboro City #Cemetery, GA
Sarah D. Willis and Step-Son Edwin Sleep in Jesus
Greensboro City Cemetery, Greene County, Georgia © 2013-2025 S. Lincecum Southern Christian Advocate  (Augusta, Georgia) Thursday, 28 July...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Nothing to see here. Just garlic being garlic in a warm-ish November. At least I know the cloves I planted are alive and well! 👩‍🌾

#fallgardening #mothernature #realfoodcomesdirty
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In personal genealogy research, an obit with no family details but more flowery words can be disappointing. Yet, I ❤️ to read those for other people! 🤭

Here are 2 for James B. Nickelson, d. 1852 in GA. 1st says he was a great guy. 2nd says, yes, and now I'm going to preach! >> tinyurl.com/5fxajds6
Two Obituaries for James Nickelson (d. 1852)
James Blake Nickelson was born 4 October 1808 in Georgia. On 5 March 1833 in Richmond County, James married Anna Maria Willey. For the Novem...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I couldn't go to sleep 💤 without saying Happy #Caturday, y'all. Night, night! 🌚

#catsofbluesky
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Julia Eveline
Wife of Dr. John T. Dickinson of Albany, GA
Died Aug 6th, 1867
Aged 35 years

Greensboro City #Cemetery, Greene County, #Georgia

#cross #wreath #obituary #cemeteryresearch #cemeteryphotography #genealogy #familyhistory
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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A Tale of Two American Cemeteries Bound Together by the Long History of American Racism 🗃️
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A Tale of Two American Cemeteries Bound Together by the Long History of American Racism
Arlington, Virginia
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November 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Latest up at the #Southern #Graves blog. It's a short post that shows the southern dichotomy well: an #epitaph and #obituary praising #Christian devotion, alongside the reality that the same person directly participated in the profound #injustice of #slavery. >> tinyurl.com/23qep4vg
Sacred to the Memory of Samuel Davis (1787-1875)
Samuel Davis Born April 16, 1787 Died Sept 7, 1875 For more than thirty years he was a member of the Baptist Church, and died trusting in Je...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
In Memory of
John E. Jackson
b. Nov 4, 1807
d. Feb 16, 1887

A sinner saved by grace.

Greensboro City #Cemetery, Greene County, #Georgia

#epitaph #savedbygrace #headstone
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Happy #WhiskersWednesday from a very drowsy Tabitha.

#catsofbluesky
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Image and caption by my grandfather, dated 1957: Martyrs' #Cemetery, also known as Sidi Al Khattab Cemetery, is situated near the Kasbah in Rabat, #Morocco, overlooking the #Atlantic #Ocean. Grandpa was stationed near there in the mid-1950s.

#familyhistory
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Georgia tried to block it, but a new museum will open on December 2 at Stone Mountain to tell the story of the largest Confederate monument in the world. The museum will explore the monument and its connection to white supremacy. 🗃️ www.reuters.com/world/us/bat...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM