Pearl Harbor : Great-Uncle John High

Pearl Harbor, the "day that will live in infamy", touched my immediate family in a number of ways. Not only did my grandfather and several great-uncles enlist to fight the Japanese - but my great-uncle John High was on board the U.S.S. Oklahoma on that fateful day.

I didn't get much opportunity to ever really talk to him about his experiences, but I do know that I'm thankful to God that he survived the attack.

Today in my database : Mary Crosby (b. December 4, 1629)

Today's featured relative in my database is my maternal 10th-great grandmother, Mary Crosby.

Mary was born December 4, 1629 at Holme-on-Spradling, Yorkshire, England. Mary married January 16, 1646/47 at Rowley, Essex Co., MA to Nicholas Longhorne. Nicholas was born 1622 in Yorkshire, England and died February 12, 1687/88 in Haverhill, Essex Co., MA. Mary died November 29, 1667 in Rowely, Essex Co., MA.

I descend from Nicholas and Mary (Crosby) Longhorne through their daughter, Elizabeth, as follows:
Mary Crosby and Nicholas Longhorne
Elizabeth Longhorne and Abraham Hazeltine
Bethiah Hazeltine and Thomas Spofford
Elizabeth Spofford and Bennett Field
Bethiah Field and Seth Pierce
Gordon Pierce and Thirsa Smalley
Francis S. Pierce and Rebecca Page
Edmund G. Pierce and Catherine Groenendyke
William Francis Pierce and Clara Pennisten
Edna Muriel Pierce and Virgil Lee Wright (my great-grandparents)

Updating FindAGrave Memorial Pages

Today I spent a little bit of time updating and adding a few memorial pages to FindAGrave. If you haven't checked out that site, I would encourage you to do so. Right now, my plans are to continue to add memorial pages for as many relatives as I can and request photos of their tombstones. So far, I've had success with photographs of tombstones as far away as Massachusetts and Iowa.