Tombstone Tuesday #3: Sidney D. Rogers and Susan Elizabeth Lloyd Rogers

Tombstone Tuesday is a genealogy blogging prompt where the blogger posts and shares about a tombstone.  Today's post is about Sidney D. Rogers and Susan Elizabeth Lloyd Rogers.

Based on information in the 1900 US Census, Sidney D. Rogers (1865-1924) and Susan Elizabeth "Bettie" Lloyd (1868-1918) were married sometime in 1884-1885.

Rogers Family plot marker.  Image from FindAGrave.com.  Image ©S. Curry.

Josiah W. Bagby

Tuesday, February 4 is World Cancer Day.  It is a day to raise awareness about cancer.  So today's post will be about Josiah W. Bagby who died of cancer in 1913.

Tombstone Tuesday #1: Lula and John Bagby

Today, let's make a virtual cemetery visit.

Riverview Cemetery was initiated by the city of Richmond in 1887 and is immediately west of Hollywood Cemetery on the James River. Riverview was laid out in a curvilinear design, with six roundabouts amid winding avenues, all overlooking the picturesque falls of the river.

Rachel Ann Biddle Miller

Happy Birthday Rachel!  

This week it is Rachel's 200th birthday!   I have not been able to locate a birth certificate for Rachel or any other document that states her birthdate, so using the information on her tombstone I calculated her birth date as October 27, 1819. 1819!

Memorial for Rachel Ann Biddle Miller, photo by  Janet Allen-Barnes, downloaded 2019.10.17 from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68326184

What was Ohio like in 1819?  Let's travel back in time...

The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, at the close of the Revolutionary War, and transferred what was known as the Old Northwest from Great Britain to the newly formed United States.  The first colony in the Old Northwest was settled soon after in 1787 and called Marietta in the part of the territory that would later become Ohio.  Many of the early settlements in Ohio, like Marietta, were the result of settlers setting off from Pittsburg, PA and traveling on the Ohio River as it flows towards the mighty Mississippi River.  The Hocking River branches off of the Ohio River just south of Marietta.  Pioneers followed this river inland to settle in the river's basin, forming many early communities in Ohio.