What treasures lie buried in your attic?
Ancestral Burial Sites• Bell• Family Stories• Yesterday
Historic St. Peter’s Churchyard, Beaufort, SC
A story of two wives, a broken gravestone, and Catholic Beaufort.
Ancestral Burial Sites• Family Stories• Grayson• Today• Yesterday
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Aspen Hill, MD
Gate of Heaven is a peaceful site, and a recent addition to Maryland's rich Catholic history.
The final resting place of the Grayson family has been rejuvenated and respected in proper form.
"You never forget," Bill Grayson said. "Three and a half years is a long time out of your life."
I am the proud possessor of my great-grandfather's (less notable) walking cane.
Wake Island was a glimpse of heaven. It is also closer to hell than we will hopefully ever come.
There are quite a few documents available that chronicle the experiences of the Bell men during the Civil War.
The South Carolinians, "taken completely by surprise, fled precipitously in the utmost confusion."
The men marched north to join with the Army of Tennessee for what would be the last stand of the Confederacy.