"Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep. From which none ever wakes to weep. A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foes." Words from 1832 #hymn found at Walker #Cemetery in Bleckley County, #Georgia (images taken 2013) #epitaph #cemeteryphotography #blackandwhite #asleepinjesus

New on the Southern Graves blog: The life of Charley Andrew White (1873-1951). From the shadow of the Colfax Massacre to marrying into the Long political dynasty, his story spans the boom and bust of the #Louisiana timber industry. 🌲🪦 -- tinyurl.com/9j7x8rpx #genealogy #cemeteryresearch

Join Resources for Filling in Agricultural Labourers’ Lives with @janetfew.bsky.social - an interactive online workshop exploring sources and techniques for researching agricultural labourers in depth. 26 Feb 2026 | 14:00–16:30 | Online Book now: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...

Yep. Sunlight is the best medicine. 🐈‍⬛ 🌞 #caturday

Every time @velshi.com says, "DHS said," I am newly enraged. Why do I give a f*ck what they say?

Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.

New on the Southern Graves blog: A transcription of an 1847 #obituary for Thomas D. Walker of Pulaski County, GA from the Southern Christian Advocate. It's a fascinating look at the 19th-century "Good Death" ideal—complete with a rare, candid mention of a "spiritual lapse." -- tinyurl.com/mry2cpas

#MountMoriahCemeteryPhiladelphia #taphophile #CemteryLover www.inquirer.com/crime/mount-...

Ever heard of the "Patrons of Husbandry"? 🧑‍🌾 My latest post explores the life of Robert L. Walker (1853-1875) and his connection to the Longstreet #Grange in Pulaski County, Georgia. Read about this 19th-century agricultural fraternal order and a touching "Tribute of Respect." -- tinyurl.com/avhkyy6n

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In 1921, a white mob in Oconee Co, #Georgia, murdered John Lee Eberhart. New on the Southern Graves blog: The story of his family’s resilience and their subsequent journey to Detroit during the Great Migration—a movement driven by both hope and the trauma of the Jim Crow South. tinyurl.com/5n8njv8s

Today is publication day! The Open Access version is now online so you can read for free on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social With huge thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social @ecds-emory.bsky.social and @foxcenteremory.bsky.social Go to jimcrowintheasylum.com

Three family members. Seven years. One devastating disease. ⚰️ Latest post at the Southern Graves blog explores the heartbreaking timeline of the Edward W. Abernathy family and their battle with #Tuberculosis during the Depression. Story here - tinyurl.com/2y5jk664 #genealogy #deathrecords

Lafayette Eagleton served with the "Tough 'Ombres" of the 90th Division before being killed in action in September 1918. Years later, the US government sponsored a pilgrimage for mothers like his own, Emma Eagleton, to visit their sons' graves in Europe. Their story - tinyurl.com/3vwm8k6x #history

A list of dates is inherently boring until it clashes with the world around it. #truth #genealogy

In the first image, she's a kitten. 🐱 In the second, she's a cat. 🐈‍⬛ Both taken just today, about 30 minutes apart. She's maturing right before my eyes. It's a bit bittersweet -- my girl is growing up. 🐾 #catsofbluesky #petparent #catlife

19th-century marble from #Connecticut in a #Georgia garden #cemetery? 🏛️🚢 Trace the journey of the Hardaway sisters’ monuments in Rose Hill Cemetery: signed by J. Ritter of New Haven, they likely traveled the Atlantic coast to #Savannah before heading inland to Macon. - tinyurl.com/5n77a6n7

William E. Helms died on this day in 1895. Laid to rest at Cedar Hill #Cemetery in Cochran, Bleckley County, #Georgia. Pvt Co H 10 Regt Conf Cav #Confederate States Army Husband of Hester Mullis, and father of Joseph S. #inmemoriam #civilwar #familyhistory

A stunning marble memorial at Rose Hill #Cemetery is more than just art; it’s a snapshot of a family's grief due to a feared childhood illness in 1859. Today on the blog, I'm decoding Victorian mourning symbols and telling the tragic story of Eugene and Anna Napier. 👼 tinyurl.com/yw3udhyt

#Confederate 2nd Lt. William Redding Ross was wounded in the "right forearm, abdomen, & spine" in the Battle of #Atlanta on 22 Jul 1864. He was captured 16 days later & died in a Federal hospital that same day, 7 Aug 1864 -- Aged 19. Burial was in Rose Hill #Cemetery at Macon, Bibb County, #Georgia.

#Bluebird in a #cemetery. 💙 🪦

Burton A. Congleton (1824-1859) was a member of Washington Lodge No. 47 in Ellaville, Schley Co, GA. Per his request, his remains were buried in Rose Hill #Cemetery at Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. They "were deposited in their last resting place on earth...with the usual Masonic ceremonies." #mason

James Wakeman died at Indian Springs, #Georgia July 5th, 1861, aged 75 years. "In Heaven there is rest." Have good reason to believe his wife, Jerusha Cadwell (Usher) Wakeman is buried nearby. She died 25 October 1862. - Rose Hill #Cemetery in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. #cemeteryphotography

Latest up at the Rose🌹Hill #Cemetery 🪦 blog is about the 1887 scandal of Claud & Cleo Thorn, 2 young "disreputable" women from Ohio whose drowning deaths caused a sensation in Macon, #Georgia. Newspaper 📰 articles provided few answers & created more questions. 🤔 tinyurl.com/3tcs7nb4 #tombstonetales

Mary, Margaret, Anne and Elizabeth Barlee with their five dead sisters represented by skulls on coffins, all the daughters of Margaret Barlee, 1653, whose memorial they kneel and mourn on at Clavering, one of Essex's most interesting churches. #MementoMoriMonday #MemorialsMonday

#MetalMonday #MemorialMonday In a visit to St Lawrence's church, church stretton, I stumbled on a mortsafe. I've never seen one before. It's a fine example. Couldn’t read the name of the person whose grave it is.

Latest up on the Rose Hill #Cemetery blog explores the life of William George Lasch, a son of German immigrants who answered the call of his country during WWI. Though his life was cut short, his legacy lived on through 2 #namesakes. - tinyurl.com/mmh8bbrx #genealogy #history #WWI #legacy

Joanna Mae Walters (1923-1932) is a niece of a man I'm researching (William George Lasch). Very sad tale. Something similar actually happened to a first #cousin of mine in the late 1940s -- was shot by his grandfather while hunting squirrel. #familyhistory (Transcription in Alt Text)

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#Genealogy #Blogging Any #FamilyHistory bloggers here who would like to be added to my list of 105+ gen bloggers active on BlueSky? Time to update my post about bloggers, so pls let me know if you want to be listed! TY climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/01/gene...

Include me in that most. 🙋‍♀️

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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She's a loyal girl. 🐈‍⬛❤️

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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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

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... ) 😉

🪦 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