Tombstone Tuesday: Alfred & Katherine VanNess:

My sister Michele and her friend went to Cedar Grove cemetery to photograph The VanNess’s tombstones. There was only one headstone the rest were flat monuments with nothing on them. There were two other monuments; one stated Wife the other Husband. We know from Cedar Grove Cemetery tombstones inscriptions and interment that Alfred A VanNess is buried in section CAT-844-2A, his wife Katherine (Jones) is buried in section CAT-844-2C. Arthur VanNess (I believe to be their son) is buried in section CAT-844-3B, Harold VanNess (relationship not established) is buried in section CAT 844-2B and Lillian(VanNess) Quillian, Alfred and Katherine's daughter is buried in section CAT-844-3C.

The headstone looks like it was knocked out of place or maybe the ground in uneven it looks like someone tried to fix it?

The symbol on the headstone is hard to read. I looked up the VanNess family crest and this symbol does not look like it.

Does anyone have any idea what it might represent?

Tombstone Tuesday- My Grandparents

My Gradparents; William Albert and Cecelia K (Jacquinot) Halley

William Albert Halley was born on 15 May 1916 in Girard, Crawford, Kansas, to Theodore and Mary (Payne) Halley. William died on 08 Aug 1979 in Mays Landing, Atlantic County, New Jersey.

Cecelia K (Jacquinot) Halley was born on 30 Dec 1915 in, Girard, Crawford, Kansas, to Napoleon J. Jacquinot and Elizabeth (George) Halley. Cecelia died on 06 July 2010 in Mays Landing, Atlantic County, New Jersey.

William and Cecelia married on 20 Oct 1936 in Greenbush, Crawford County, Kansas.

They had three children; Sonya, William and Joan

William retired from the Navy and was a veteran of the Korean war and WW II.

Tombstone Tuesday

Green-Wood Cemetery

My sister and her friend spent a Saturday afternoon at Green-Wood cemetery and sent me some photo’s.
 

Green-Wood Cemetery is located in Brooklyn, NY on 478 acres of hills, valleys and ponds, was founded in 1838 and was once considered to be the fashionable place to be buried. 

Green-Wood Cemetery even has an online burial search that goes back to 1850. To learn more about the cemetery or search their online burial site  go to Green-Wood Cemetery

Tombstone Tuesday

My Great Grandparents:
Johann & Mary Krohn
Johann emigrated from Hungary with his wife Maria (Mary)and Maria's brother Albert Bruck
Departed from Bremen Germany on 4 March 1905 and arrived in the United States, at the port of New York on the 21 of March 1905, on the vessel Main

My 3rd Great Grandparents

Andrew Knaus
Birth: 1824 in Hannover, Germany
Death: 15 April 1896 in New Brunswick, N. J

Mary A Knaus
Birth: abt. 1820 in Hannover, Germany
Death: 23 April 23 1897 in New Brunswick, N.J

My Third Great Grandmother

Catherine W. Goffine


Birth: 08 Jan 1815 in Guelf, Luxembourg, Belgium

Death: 21 Jun 1906 in Osage Mission ( St. Paul), Neosho, Kansas

Occupation: Kept house

Mother of 11 children

My 3rd Great Grandfather- Nicholas Amos George

Birth:   05 Sept 1809 in Fouches, Luxembourg, Belgium

Death: 20 Sept 1887 in Osage Mission (now St. Paul), Neosho, Kansas

Marriage to Catherine W. Goffine- 18 Feb 1839 in Pittsburg, Allegheny, PA

Occupation:  Farmer