Corel Cousins

This Tombstone Tuesday is the hardest I’ve written.  Donald Charles Bishop was my dad.  He married the great-great granddaughter of James Pickens Corel.
Donald Charles Fletcher was born to the youngest daughter of Clifford Romaine Fletcher and Margaret Edna Cowan on October 16, 1950 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.  As a young child, he went to [...]

Over Memorial Day weekend I had the opportunity to talk with my grandparents about our family history and I was able to go through some old photos, scrapbooks, and other items that had been saved over the years.
I was awestruck when I saw this first photo of my great great grandpa, James Henry Corel  (son [...]

John Beasley Corel was the sixth child and fourth son born to Emma Augusta Miller and James Henry Corel (son of James Pickens Corel) on Monday, June 27, 1904 at 3 PM in Wakarusa Township, Douglas County, Kansas1.  I often wondered where the middle name of Beasley came from….
In early March 2009, I was surfing [...]

As I try to keep themes going, as much as I can, this Tombstone Tuesday post is a follow-up to my post last week in Smile for the Camera ~ A Noble Life.
William Conrad Hahn was born March 19, 1903 in Bartlett, Labette County, Kansas to Margaret Violet Burns and Adam Hahn.  After his mother, [...]

This photo portrays the two things held most dear to my ancestors.  Family and farming the land, and in my opinion, nothing could show more nobility than those two facets combined as they are in this photo.
William Conrad “Con” Hahn is photographed with his grandson, “Sonny” Laughlin, playing on the tractor in 1954.
Conrad Hahn was [...]