John F. Dillon Designed His Own Tombstone
Blog post by Randi Richardson It isn’t often that one designs their own tombstone or the designer of a tombstone is even known. And it isn’t often that one tombstone stands about among many others in a given cemetery. For those reasons the tombstones of John F. Dillon and the Dillon family at Rose Hill
Life Abbreviated: Earl C. Carpenter & Wife—Part 1 of 2
Earl Collins Carpenter was born July 29, 1878, in Illinois to Guy C. and Viola (Irish) Carpenter. Earl, typically referred to as E. C. or “Doc,” had two younger brothers, Guy, Jr., and George. His maternal great great great grandfather, Benjamin Irish, was a veteran of the Revolutionary War who died in 1795 when he
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