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This is the blog of a prune picker. (Native born Californian) Retired oilfield. I am an old man. I blog a lot about my body and getting old. As I approach death life gets more interesting. More interesting is not good. I still drive. I attend sports, music, and civic events. I am writing my memoirs. I attend swim class three times a week. Some of my blogs might be interesting. A lot of my blogs are silly and trivial. None are very long.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

On the trail of grandfather graves.


Monson Grandfather Data

Relation to me.
Name
Lifespan
Where born.
Where died.
Cemetery

8th Great grandfather
Thomas
1612-1685
Rattlesden, England
New Haven, Connecticut
Grove St,
New Haven

7th Great grandfather
Samuel
1643-1693
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut


6th Great grandfather
Samuel
1669-1741
New Haven, Connecticut
Wallingford, Connecticut


5th Great grandfather
Solomon
1763-1765
Wallingford, Connecticut
Morristown, New Jersey


4th Great grandfather
Samuel
1717-1790
New Haven, Connecticut
Fayette County, Kentucky


3rd Great grandfather
Samuel
1763-1833
Rowan, North Carolina
Harrison County, Kentucky


2nd Great grandfather
Joel
1791-1860
Bourbon County, Kentucky
Harrison County, Kentucky


Great grandfather
Abner L
1825-1875
Harrison County, Kentucky
Pinhook, Robertson County, Kentucky


Birth Grandfather
James Mart
1856-1939
Bracken County, Kentucky
Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky
Highland,
Ft Mitchell,
Kentucky

Foster Grandfather
Charles Morton
1851-1919
Nicholas
County,
Kentucky

Alden,
Kansas
Alden Valley, Alden, KS

Father
Charles Abner
1881-1957
Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky
Downey, Los Angeles County, California
Pomona, Pomona, CA


Charles Elbert
1925-
Pomona, Los Angeles County, California

Arlington,
Virginia


I am in genealogy mode today. As part of working on the Monson tree I have given myself the challenge of visiting and taking a picture of all my grandfather graves that are buried in the US. The first of these graves is the grave of Thomas Munson who was buried in 1685 in New Haven, CT. His father is buried in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. I understand there is an ocean between me and Rattlesden.

Five of the graves are in Kentucky. I have a picture of the grave of my grandfather James Mart Monson. Only four Kentucky graves to go. They are in three adjacent counties. There is, I think one grave in New Jersey. Three graves are in Connecticut. It should not involve a very large amount of travel to accomplish my picture taking mission.

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