Tombstone Tuesday - Col. Zollinger

Civil War hero, Union Army colonel, who lead troops at Murfreesboro, Shiloh, Franklin and Nashville. Was also with Sherman during the Atlanta campaign. Later became Allen County Sheriff and served as Mayor of Fort Wayne for 6 terms. Recognized for many municipal accomplishments and for having left $133,000 remaining in the city's treasury at the time of his retirement. 

 Headstone location:  Lindenwood Cemetery, Ft. Wayne, Allen County, Indiana

 Headstone Photo courtesy of Jim Cox

*Allen County Historical Scrapbook

June 1977

**Contribution compliments of Jim Cox, Ft. Wayne, Indiana

Military Monday - Robert Eudaley

Robert Eudaley was the son of David Eudaley and his wife, Sarah Jane Baldwin Eudaley.  Robert was born 8 JAN 1824 in Jefferson County, Tennessee and died 29 JAN 1901 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee of pneumonia.   He married 3 OCT 1871 in Davidson County, Tennessee to Martha Lanier (1838-1911). 

Robert & his wife, Martha were the parents of at least four children - Tennie B. (1872-1874), William F. (1876-1953), an unnamed child who died young, and Annie R. (1884- ? ).

Got my crayons out again...

I've talked before about adding "Color" to your ancestors file. Giving them "personality", bringing them to life.

An important part of my ANSLEY ancestors was music. My grandfather, David Ansley loved music and he enjoyed "pickin' & singing"... David is pictured above with one of his cousins and his guitar. David loved his guitar and singing and he did both very well!

I'm getting out my crayons today to add some color to my personal file - studmuffin & I are going to the Grand Ole Opry tonight. We bought our tickets last week on line. I was excited 4th row tickets in the front center section. I'll take it. When we picked up our tickets they are actually FIRST ROW! So cool. That story will defitinely go into our files!

Genealogy wise, we are off early this morning to the Tennessee state library & Archives in downtown Nashville. Our searches today for obits & death certificates on stufmiffin's lines - the HURST's and LIGON's. I've compiled lists of the names, dates and counties we are searching for and hope to get quite a few. I've not been to this archive in many years so I am hoping that things go well.

The hours are 8-6, and copies are .25 each from microfillm, so I anticipate spending a minimum of $20. We'll see.

So far our stay in Nashville has been delightful - so much history!

Enjoy your day!