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Follow Flowers on the Family Tree on WordPress. Flowers on the Family Tree. Stories and thoughts about my ancestors. My 4x great grandfather, James Parks died from typhoid fever while he was serving in Co. H of the Ohio 159th infantry regiment during the Civil War.
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all. Monday, 21 December 2015. George William Bottomley 1888 - 1947. One of the enlistment posters produced after the East Yorkshire raids. More than a thousand shells were fired during these raids, and afterwards the attack became part of a British propaganda campaign. You can read more about the raids here.
Well, hats off to ancestry. com today because they made me look at my tree in a different light and pointed out an ancestor that I might have taken little notice of for some time to come. How did they do that? This was an interesting perspective, and not one that I had taken a look at yet. What last name did they come up with? Still, I was glad that ancestry pointed out this remote ancestor to me, so I de.