Reflections From the Fence

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Tombstone Tuesday, Guess Who - - Probably Found Him

Leah from the Internet Genealogist (and 3 other blogs), left a comment on my post about Guess Who, suggesting plugging the dates from this headstone into the SSDI and see what came up.

So, the challenge was stated and Carol went directly to the SSDI, never really had much interest, never gave it a second thought, but, once challenged! LOL

So, one name came up with these dates, ONLY one:

Richard B. Trudo, last residence: Memphis, Saint Clair, Michigan

Interesting that the Social Security Death Index says Memphis is in Saint Clair County, Find A Grave says it is in Macomb County, Place Finder (RootsMagic) says it is in Macomb County, and Wikipedia says, "city on the line between Macomb and St. Clair counties." There, I learned two things today, the name of Guess who and that Memphis lies in two counties (and had a population of 1129 in the 2000 census.)

Thanks Leah, solved that little mystery.

Tombstone Tuesday, Guess Who

Wild One's share all kinds of information in our email. I have been cleaning out old email, VERY old email, don't ask, I have no excuse that will stand up to your ???? It is what it is. LOL

That lousy excuse made, it is kinda fun reviewing the old stuff we have chatted about. Diane, our non-blogging WO sent this along a while back (OK, I'll fess up, it was May of 2008). I re-discovered it this AM. I emailed her and got her permission to use the photos (thanks Chuck and Diane).

This is from Memphis Cemetery, Memphis, Macomb County, Michigan.

Remember, clicking on the photo will open it to a new page, where it is a bit larger, click the ole back button to return to Reflections From the Fence.

Now, here is a close up of the headstone on the left side of this photo: