Neighbor Gets Sourced

She's not from Frog Hollow proper, but rather she's living down near Molly's Hole - that is, just up and around the bend from Burnside Bridge on Burnside Bridge Road.  She's close enough for around these parts to be called a neighbor.  Julie Stinar is the subject of at least a second article about her chickens, her lovely free-ranging chickens.  I blogged another article about her once before.  Julie's farm, Evensong, is the kind where you can take your kids to see where their food comes from.  There, my girls saw and cooed over baby pigs for the first time.  I hope the Stinars make Sharpsburg their long-time home.

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Find a Grave

The other night I received a message on Ancestry.com from an archivist at Monocacy Cemetary in Beallsville, where many of my maternal grandmother's family are buried. He was looking for a better picture of my great-great grandfather than one I had posted on the site, so that he could post it on his findagrave.com page. When I went to his page and then followed the links of several others that he sent me, I found some great photos and a lot of details I didn't know before. Great site for family history diggers!

Some other family grave pages I came across:

• Mary Astlin - Great-Grandma Beall's mother
• George Astlin - Great-Grandma Beall's father
• Benjamin R. Poole - Granddaddy's grandfather
  

Ancestry: Beth-Judy-Helen-Charles Wade Poole-John Elgin Poole