Saturday afternoon (May 26) Preston and I set out to visit and decorate family graves in Adams, Taylor and Montgomery counties. It was his first time to go to all the cemeteries with me. He came prepared with pen and notebook. It was a hot, windy day. I made sure we had plenty of water and my camera. We began at Walnut Grove Cemetery on the north edge of Corning.
Where are buried my great-great-great grandparents on my paternal side, John Palmer Hull (1820-1887) and Rosina Edwards Hull (December 1, 1825-August 26, 1906). Rosina was born in Seton, East Riding, Yorkshire, England.
Their daughter, Agnes Georgina Hull Richardson was my great-great grandmother. Grandma Aggie was born October 18, 1850 and died March 25, 1943 - eight months before I was born.
Flora Viola Richardson Duncan (April 20, 1871-March 15, 1932) my great-grandma was the only child of Agnes and John Richardson. Agnes raised her daughter on her own after her husband John 'disappeared'.
Flora married Lemuel Daniel Duncan (March 27, 1865-January 17, 1919). Flora and Lemuel were married May 25, 1889. They had six children, the oldest of which was my grandmother, Bessie.
Second stop was Oak Hill/Calvary on the south edge of Corning. You can see by the flag how strong the wind was blowing.
My Irish grandparents are buried here in Calvary, the Catholic cemetery. William Lynam (December 4, 1832-March 30, 1898) was born in Cloonagh, Castletown-Geoghegan, West Meath, Ireland. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife and six children.
Catherine McDonnough was born in County Antrim, Ireland in 1832. She died February 24, 1912. She came to Ripon, Wisconsin in 1852 where she was married to William Lynam on April 19, 1856. These great-great grandparents of mine came to Adams County in 1878 where they first settled on a farm about a mile north of Brooks. They had eleven children, six of whom lived to adulthood.
Carved on this stone are these words: "Dear Mother thou art gone, we wish thee longer stay, but death he made us mourn, for taking thee away. So sudden was the stroke, so heavily it fell, such tender ties it broke..Dear Mother, fare thee well."
Prairie Rose Cemetery is in Jasper Township five miles south and two miles west of Corning. From my childhood home, it is a mile west and a mile south; or diagonally southwest across the section. Even though most of father's family is buried elsewhere, he wanted this cemetery, so near his farm, to be his last resting place.
Louis Lavern Lynam (May 6, 1917-May 24, 1978) was born in Jasper Twp., moved at a young age to Douglas Twp. where he began school at Highland. Then his family moved to Taylor County where he went to school at Spaulding #1 and lived until he married Ruth Voneta Ridnour in Bedford on October 10, 1937.
Ruth was also born in Adams County (Douglas Twp.)(January 25, 1919-December 16,2003). She started school at Grub Ridge in Hacklebarney north of Villisca, but ended up going to school mostly in Holt Twp., Taylor County. Mom and Dad lived their entire married lives on the Jasper Twp. farm south and west of Corning where their four children happily grew up.
Also buried at Prairie Rose is my sister, Betty Ruth Lynam Beavers (September 23, 1945-October 14, 1973.) She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the entirely too young age of 28, leaving a 10-yr old son and a 5-year old daughter.
Betty's son, Michael Eugene Beavers, (February 16, 1964-July 27, 2006) never seemed to be able to get over losing his Mom. Much to the sorrow of his family, Mikey made the decision to join his Mom in death. Mike had never married.
Next....on to Guss.....
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