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Stephanie 🪦⛄️🎄🎁
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Baker by day, genealogy and tombstone 🪦 blogger by night.

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Include me in that most. 🙋‍♀️
rjmrim.bsky.social 🪖 🇺🇸 🌎 🇺🇦 @rjmrim.bsky.social · 1d
Most don't know some 21K #Soldiers deserted in #WW2, more than enough for a whole division;

#Death by Firing Squad: Eddie Slovik Became the Only U.S. #Soldier Executed for Desertion in #WWII

#USArmy #USA #Military #History

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December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Latest up at the Southern Graves blog is about the sensationalized #shooting #death of Manly Peacock (1877-1903), yellow #journalism, and the cultural blaming of #women. -- tinyurl.com/2t2xnha8

#cemeteryresearch #historicalnewspapers #Georgia #history #yellowjournalism #womenarealwaystoblame
Sensationalized Shooting Death of Manly Peacock (1903)
Manly W. Peacock, son of Albert, was born on 6 March 1877. Two of his brothers were Jefferson D. Peacock , mentioned previously in this spac...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Wonderful use of a ledger marker! All won't fit here, so full inscription in ALT txt.

Dolores Peacock Kingery
b. Jul 1, 1911 Cochran, GA
Parents: Ralph Harris & May Urquhart Peacock
Grad Brenau Col., 1932
m. Andrew Jackson Kingery of Summit, GA May 28, 1935
d. Nov 13, 1989 Macon, GA

#ledgermarker
Granite ledger marker for Dolores Peacock Kingery in Cedar Hill Cemetery at Cochran, Bleckley County, Georgia. Gravel background. Full inscription: Dolores Peacock Kingery Born July 1, 1911 Cochran, Georgia Parents: Ralph Harris & May Urquhart Peacock Graduated Brenau College, 1932 May Queen, Brenau, 1932 Phi Mu Sorority Married Andrew Jackson Kingery of Summit, Georgia May 28, 1935 Children: Andrew Jackson Kingery, Jr., 1937 Dale Peacock Kingery Taylor, 1945 Grandchildren: James Drew Kingery, 1962 Lynn Margaret Kingery, 1963 Brian Hardy Kingery, 1967 Lisa Anne Kingery, 1974 Mary Ben Taylor, 1987 Legacy: Our mother left us her beauty, her humor, her strength of will, and her faith in our future. Died November 13, 1989 Macon, Georgia "Dolores is with God, and God is with us, how grand!"
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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huddersfield.exposed
As someone who gets lots of local history queries, can confirm there's been a big increase in people starting their history research with GenAI/LLM (which just spews out fake facts and hallucinated rubbish) who then wonder why they can't find anything at all to corroborate it.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Portrait of Victorian mourning for Jane P. Ard Wright (1877-1898). Her die-in-socket headstone was a prevalent style for the late 1800s. The bas-relief Lily of the Valley carving (also popular) symbolizes innocence, purity, & humility. To be memorialized as both dau. & wife suggests recent marriage.
The monument is a marble "die in socket" headstone, a very common style for the late 19th century. The stone has weathered significantly, showing the characteristic graying and biological growth (lichen and mold) that creates that high-contrast, darkened patina over the white marble. The base appears sturdy, supporting the upright tablet, which features a decorative, arched top (tympanum). The bas-relief carving at the top is a showstopper Lily of the Valley bouquet tied with a ribbon around the stems. Jane P. Daughter of J. T. & S. C. Ard Wife of W. W. Wright June 10, 1877 May 25, 1898 The dates tell the saddest part of the story. Jane was born in the Reconstruction Era South and died just two weeks before her 21st birthday. To be memorialized as both a daughter and a wife suggests she had likely married recently but passed before establishing a long matriarchy of her own. It’s a poignant snapshot of a life ending right on the cusp of adulthood. Peeking in the background, you can see the rusted iron fencing—likely a family plot enclosure—which frames the stone beautifully and adds to the atmospheric, historic cemetery aesthetic.
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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St Michael, Ledbury.

John Hamilton, the beloved infant son of John Martin and Maria Henrietta, his wife.
Born April 23rd, 1850. Died March 18th, 1851.

Sculpture by John & Mary Thornycroft, featured at the Great Exhibition in 1851.

#adventangels #monumentsmonday
December 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Latest up at the Southern Graves blog is abt a young college student who accidentally stabbed herself with a fork. She died as a result. tinyurl.com/494ncknz

#Georgia Normal & Industrial College, est. 1889, evolved into today's Georgia College & State University.

#cemeteryresearch #history #gcsu
Injury Done with Fork Ends the Life of Cherry A. White (1909)
Decades before penicillin was widely available to the public, Cherry White had an accident with a fork. It cost her her life. Newspapers all...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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There would not be a social safety net in this country had Frances Perkins not dedicated her life to improving worker's rights. @hcrichardson.bsky.social points out how this #WomanInHistory directly affects our current lives.
youtu.be/s6x_7Kq0Psc?...
#ChildLabor #SocialSecurity
#SafeWorkSpaces
Frances Perkins | Episode 8, The Declaration in Action
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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helenczerski.bsky.social Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 3d
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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She's a loyal girl. 🐈‍⬛❤️
Tabby cat sleeping -- all curled up next to a laptop. Lamp and window in the background.
December 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Stewart S. Brown (1875-1946) : member of Col. Patrick Henry Ray's "Immunes" Regt. Recruits were from #Southern states & thought to have a natural immunity to Yellow Fever, which was prevalent in #Cuba. Mustered in & out of service at Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.

- Cedar Hill Cemetery in Cochran, GA
Military issued headstone for Stewart Brown states he was a member of Co. L, 3 U.S. Vol. Inf., Sp. Am. War. Inscription is in a recessed shield. Background of cemetery with many floral decorations. Trees can be seen farther in the back.
December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Latest up at the Southern Graves blog is a short post about the 1943 shooting death of World War I veteran Tom G. Padgett in Gastonia, North Carolina. -- tinyurl.com/3fape65z

#cemeteryresearch #veteran #WWI #homicide #crimeandcriminals #Georgia #NorthCarolina #familyhistory #southerngraves
Tom G. Padgett is Killed (1943)
The World War I veteran was shot in his left side with a pistol. Thomas Glover "Tom" Padgett was born on 10 July 1888 in Twiggs County, Geor...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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oneplacestudies.bsky.social
Members! Next week, in addition to our regular #OnePlaceWednesday here on Bluesky, we also have One-Place Wednesday LIVE taking place via Zoom, with three sessions during which you can get together and chat / ask questions about #OnePlaceStudies. Not a member? Why not join up and join in!
#OnePlaceWednesday LIVE! 10 December 2025. Image: A picture representing a laptop computer with 12 head-and-shoulder views of people engaged in an online chat. 10am – 12 noon GMT, 2pm – 4pm GMT, plus evening session (times TBC); via Zoom. . www.one-place-studies.org/events/ One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Latest up at the Southern Graves blog explores the #epitaphs on the #gravestones of three siblings in the Pace #family. Deep #faith is the running theme: one written by family, one a stanza of #poetry, and one a #Bible verse. -- tinyurl.com/3c26m3nm

#epitaph #cemeteryresearch #familyhistory
Three Pace Siblings and the Faith Inscribed in Stone
Born just months after the Civil War ended, Thomas B. Pace Jr. lived through Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the upheavals of early 20th...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Sacred to the Memory of
Fannie
Wife of Samuel Carnes
b. Apr 29, 1851
d. Dec 22, 1880
Aged 29 Yrs, 7 Mos, 23 Dys

'Tis well with thee. Nor anxious doubts, nor dark dismay disquieted thy closing day. But evermore thy soul could say, "My Father - Thy Will Be Done."

Rest, Dear One, Thy Labors Are Ended
Focal point is a gravestone resembling a miniature classical monument, with columns flanking the inscription and an arched pediment at the top—echoing the style of Roman or Greek temples. Background is a cemetery with several trees. Location: Cedar Hill Cemetery in Cochran, Bleckley County, Georgia. Closeup of monument and inscription for Fannie Carnes (1851-1880). Can clearly see the columns flanking the inscription.
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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New post up at the Southern Graves blog is about Charles Mullis (1813-1887), his three wives, and a general theory on how he went from being an uneducated farmer to a wealthy financier. -- tinyurl.com/3fdw8xec

#cemeteryresearch #Georgia #history #planterclass #AmericanSouth #ReconstructionEra
Charles Mullis (d. 1887): From Uneducated Farmer to Financier
An urn-topped obelisk in Cedar Hill Cemetery at Cochran, Bleckley County, Georgia, serves as a single monument to Charles Mullis and his thr...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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bookishnea.bsky.social Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 14d
I was congratulating myself for finding the occasional secret society symbol in cemeteries…

And then I found the Marlows.
Stones for E Morton & Doris Marlow. Doris was born in China & her father was a WWII vet. Across the two graves are symbols for no less than 13 groups. I only recognize the American Legion, the Lions Club, and the Freemasons.
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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"In the 1600s, English explorer John Smith wrote of how he and his men were attacked by Native Americans along the river. A document from the 1660s detailed how the Rappahannock Tribe was promised 30 blankets in exchange for more than 25,000 acres of their land."

Gift article - wapo.st/48Dnft9
Location of historic Native American villages was unknown — until now
Archaeologists have found what they say is proof of Native American villages mentioned by English explorer John Smith.
wapo.st
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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It does! Also made me think of the Sesame Street character, Mr. Snuffleupagus! 🐘 (Wikipedia link for those who are like, "huh?" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Snu... ) 😉
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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🪦 In the #Victorian Era (1837–1901), child mortality was heartbreakingly common. This Trunnell family gravestone, carved in bas‑relief with cherubs and flowers, memorializes three young siblings — symbols of innocence, grief, and the hope of heavenly peace. 👼

Cedar Hill Cemetery in Cochran, Georgia
Entire gravestone for the Trunnell children. The top of the arch of the tablet features a carving of a floral spray. Below that are three cherubs, representing each of the three siblings. The center cherub is playing the harp and sitting on a cloud. And below that is the full inscription: Hanson b. July 13, 1878 d. Aug 25, 1878 Jemmie b. Aug 30, 1879 d. March 24, 1883 Carter b. July 8, 1882 d. April 26, 1883 Children of J. W. & S. C. Trunnell Closer view of the three cherubs. Close-up of two cherubs taken from the left. Close-up of two cherubs taken from the right.
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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
Membership Benefits. Image: Front page of a copy of Destinations, journal of the Society for One-Place Studies. It has a photo of a chapel, and highlights some of the articles inside. • Quarterly journal Destinations • Monthly webinars by Zoom • Annual conference (online) • Member offers and discounts • Register your study / studies for free – each OPS gets a free profile page on our website • Be part of a supportive, worldwide community £10 per year; free for students under the age of 21. www.one-place-studies.org/join-us/ One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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3 little #lambs.

Children of Dr. Thomas Frank & Nancy Williams Walker.

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

#littlelamb #sufferthelittlechildren #cemeteryphotography #southerngraves
3 headstones for the children of Dr. T. F. & N. W. Walker. The inscriptions are largely unreadable, but each has an engraving of a lying lamb. Cemetery background, including a few trees, and even a few buildings farther in the distance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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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
Portrait of a headstone. Top portion is engraved with a mostly closed hand, except a single finger pointing up. Cemetery background.
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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She's definitely owning it! 🤎
liviladoodles.bsky.social Livila @liviladoodles.bsky.social · 18d
She is in her domain… #caturday
A white and beige cat looking at the camera while sitting in a makeshift cardboard tunnel with circle windows that she loves. She looks very satisfied and comfortable on her belly with both paws out front one further forward than the other
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM