Find a grave

[Ruger Redhawk]

Every now and then I'll go to Find a Grave and look someone up. I've looked at several of the big gun names. Smith, Wesson, Oliver Winchester, John C. Garand. John M. Browning etc. Several times for the heck of it I looked up Bill Ruger and it showed nothing. They recently changed the site and did an upgrade. I had nothing to lose so I tried again just now and suddenly Bill Ruger appeared.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26019607/william-batterman-ruger

 

[Jeepnik]

You need another hobby. :mrgreen:

 

[Ruger Redhawk]

You need another hobby. :mrgreen:

I agree but I like read about people both dead or alive that have or had my same interests. I fascinated with the development of guns.

 

[Selena]

You need another hobby. :mrgreen:

It's been said that people die twice, once when they pass and the second the last time someone says their name. Perhaps his hobby is just a vehicle to make good and productive men immortal.

Lived long and prosper Amos Cooper.

 

[bogus bill]

There is a ghost town near me, "Grafton". It`s on the east edge of Zion NP. It`s where part of the movie "Butch Cassidy" was filmed. We took a RZR ride there last week and visited the old cemetery. There is a marker there that the woman "Was killed by Indians". I like walking through old cemetery`s once in awhile.

 

[tom black]

By using "Find a Grave" I've found several ancestors that I had no idea where they were buried. It's actually a neat tool to use.
Tom Black

 

[Ruger Redhawk]

By using "Find a Grave" I've found several ancestors that I had no idea where they were buried. It's actually a neat tool to use.
Tom Black

It is and you can really learn about who someone was.
I just look once in a while it's not liked I'm addicted to it. You non believers ought to check it out it might interest you if you think it will or not.

 

[blackhawknj]

I peruse it quite a bit myself, look up high school classmates who departed too soon, some other people-some of my teachers, e.g., also namesakes-I have a very rare German last name. I make a point of leaving messages for other veterans. My understanding is that someone must post or sponsor a memorial for someone's name to appear.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I like visiting old cemetaries, too. There are several near my home, one with markers going back into the 1700s. A former governor of Alabama is buried there. Another one nearby is the Coffee family cemetary, John Coffee was a General under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 and some of the Indian wars of that period. I made a few pics there the other day, I'll try to post some later.

 

[Ruger Redhawk]

I like visiting old cemetery's,reading about different people that's no longer with us. I didn't mean to make a big deal over Find a Grave but I thought it would interest most that they have added Bill Ruger.

My folks cemetery has the old Baseball player Jimmie Foxx buried not 75 yds from them in S.FL.

 

[powder smoke]

Old cemeteries are cool. Oldest grave I have ever found is Elliphat Senter 1697.
Not sure if I got the spelling correct of his first name anyhow pretty old. ps

 

[bogus bill]

Ed Gein used to go to them to dig up a date.

 

[Tom W]

We went to Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah last week. As I used to install memorials a long time ago I've always been interested in the old statuary and markers.While we were walking around our friend said that she smelled magnolias. We were overlooking the river, and there was a fair breeze, but no flowering trees, bushes or placed plants. What was really strange was that the fragrance was only noticable if we stood in a small area, just big enough to put both feet into. A step to either side or back and we couldn't smell it. I called over our friend's husband, who was busy taking photos, and suggested that he stand here and confirm what we noticed. He scoffed a bit until he stood in the exact spot, looked at me and quietly said that he smelled either magnolias or gardineas. He also stepped out of the space and smelled nothing. My wife went and got the car and we went back by the place, but there was no fragrance at all, except for the one little spot where one had to be standing to smell it.
I'm not a ghost type person, but since I was on the verge of death last January and all the stuff that I've been through since the surgery, I have been noticing stuff that I used to scoff at.....

 

[bogus bill]

I recall my dad telling me a story of when he was a kid. He woke early and smelled flowers in his bedroom. A few hours later a neighbor came over to tell the family that some old woman that used to live in that bedroom died that morning.
During the war my mom said she heard a radio playing a black spiritual, "Oh dem golden slippers" but couldn't find a radio turned on. At THAT time she wasn't particular religious (was later) but she felt it had something to do with her brother who was oversea`s in the war. She said it scared her and she got on her knee`s and prayed for Eldon. When he came home they compared the time frame and it was the very same time and incident that I just wrote about on the thread "How to crash a airplane". Just he and another guy out of 14 lived on his glider landing. On the same incident he later told me that a officer wanted him to load some collapsible cross`s on the glider for the invasion. He was always superstitious and didn't want to but of course he had to. He said the officer that called him superstitious strapped in next to him and got his head blew off by ground fire before they landed!

 

[Colonialgirl]

My Mom use to tell me a story about the time when she was a young girl how her Grand Father (My GREAT GRAND FATHER) came into her bedroom one very early Morning (around 3:00 AM) and sat on the edge of bed saying nothing; Then he got up and left. She found out later that morning that he had passed away at that time. She was his favorite Grand Daughter. So YES, She DID believe in Ghosts.

 

[Ruger77shooter]

My wife and I were passing through Natchitoches, LA a few weeks ago and saw signs advertising a "tour of cemeteries. It looked like it was a tour through various states and not just here in LA. I suppose that since Natchitoches is the oldest town in LA might be the reason it was on the tour. While I have no desire for doing something such as that, I always would stop at little cemeteries scattered throughout the woods where I hunted as a child. There were communities and even at least one sawmill town in the parts of the woods we hunted that were 15-20 miles from the nearest town. The only visible remains of the town were the cemeteries scattered through the area and the old mill pond.

 

[Rick Courtright]

My wife and I were passing through Natchitoches, LA a few weeks ago

Hi,

How do the locals pronounce that name? I've heard two variants, and if one of them's wrong, I think I know which one... but I'm not sure! :)

Rick C

 

[RSIno1]

By using "Find a Grave" I've found several ancestors that I had no idea where they were buried. It's actually a neat tool to use.
Tom Black

I've done this too. Now it's linked to the Family Search web site from the Mormon church so searching is easier and gets you a lot more info.

 

[bogus bill]

A boy was late getting home so he took a short cut through the cemetery. He fell in a open grave that was just dug for a funeral for the next day. He was short so tried and tried but couldn't get out. Finally he set down and waited for morning. A little later another small boy also was hurrying for home to the ghetto and also took a short cut through the cemetery and fell in the grave. The first boy sat in the corner and watched the other boy trying to get out. Finally he told him you aint getting out of here!
With that the kid jumped out. He later told his buddy's that he jumped for a limb. The group said so - you jumped up and grabbed the limb? No, he said, I missed it but caught it on the way down!