Thursday, May 23, 2013

family history found at the cemetery!

We visited the cemetery where my Grandpa and Grandma Franklin are laid to rest.  Brandon had been up the week before and helped Dad clean it up and cut the grass, etc. 


 Also found that Grandma's sister and husband are buried in the same cemetery at Thompson Chapel Baptist Church. Jennie Keeter Quinn and Mitchell Quinn.  There were lots of Keeters in this cemetery! 
 Just to the left of the grandparents is a small marker and flowers for my brother Stephen Anthony, who died a few hours after birth, on October 25 or 26 in 1956.  To the right of the grandparents is a small marker for my great grandmother, Granny Tina Keeter.  






While doing family history research on line, my sister Debbie found that in one census, Granny Keeter actually lived with the family of  J.J. Bates for a time, so we are not sure if she was adopted or what. We were excited to find his tombstone also.