Showing posts with label Shell Banks Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shell Banks Cemetery. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Tombstone Tuesday, Shell Banks Cemetery, Fort Morgan, Baldwin County, Georgia, Part 2

More interesting monuments and memorials found at Shell Banks Cemetery, Baldwin County, Alabama. Also see my post here.

First up, two men obviously loved and admired, and accomplished as well.


Devoted Husband
And Father
Officer and a
Gentleman & Phd'


Beloved Husband Father
And Grandfather
(If you look closer you will see he was a
US Treasury Special Agent and a
Member of the Fraternal Order of Police)


Above: This Daughter of the Confederacy
marker was found on the plot of
Genevieve Courtney
Jan 14, 1914 to March 18, 1980


Above: No concrete ledger here,
one made of bricks and shells instead.
Monument reads:
In Memory Of
Joseph L. Strong
Mar 23, 1890
Jun 25, 1892


Above: Believe this to be the marker for a burial,
but I do not know for whom.
The silk poinsetta blooms are tucked between two sea shells.
Man spotted a small reptile who had claimed one of these shells as a good hiding place.


Above:
Barbara A. Ewing
(Nearby is Harold F. Ewing, his marker is identical, yes, wood,
appears to be a 4 X 4, names painted on, and fading.)


Above, Cinderella Hanson.
Love her name, so sad, only 4 years old.


Above:
Our Little
Bradley
Age
(Note: Nothing more is known by this blogger about Bradley.)


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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Tombstone Tuesday, Shell Banks Cemetery, Fort Morgan, Baldwin County, Georgia

This cemetery is steeped in history,  many burials can be found on the Find A Grave site for this cemetery.  I found so many interesting stones and stories here that I will take two posts to share them all.  In no particular order, but interesting to me:


Wife
Hazel R
Nelson
July 27, 1923
June 12, 2001
(I just love the angels on each side of her monument.)


So touching, three children's hand-prints and their names inscribed at the end of this ledger stone.  Believe the names are Mickey, Kyle and Susy.  They are at the end of the ledger for:
Jack Lee Woods
SA YUA Navy
World War II
May16, 1929 - Oct 22, 1999


In Loving Remembrance of
My Husband
Oliver L Todd
Born
May 14, 1881
Was Drowned
Sept. 27, 1906




Who are Mr and Mrs. Hamilton?


Mary Ewing
Wife of George Ewing
Born 1854
Died 1899
(If you look at the bottom left of the handmade monument, you can see where this stone was made or dedicated in May of 1952.)
Man and I both just loved the use of marbles on this hand made memorial.


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