by Deb | Jan 22, 2021 | Bell Family, Generations Remembered, Hershey Family, Uncategorized, White Family
Cousin Bill McCord ran across a photo that belonged to Great Grandma Effie Long Bell and passed it along to me. The back of the photo reads “Isaac Long Barn of Landisville (it is really in Landis Valley), Lancaster Co., Penna. From this farm David Long came to...
by Deb | Sep 13, 2020 | Brown Family, Duart Family, Shoemaker Family, Uncategorized, White Family
It is with sadness that I share that my Mom, Martha B. White passed away on Friday, September 11, 2020 at Masonic Village, Elizabethtown, PA. She moved to Elizabethtown 5 years ago, so I have had the privilege to share her last few years. She has been such a trooper,...
by Deb | Sep 3, 2020 | Generations Remembered, White Family
Prospective Eagle Scout, Jonathan Garula has chosen cleaning and restoring the Gailey-White cemetery as part of his project. He and his volunteers have replaced both bridges, removed a large tree, filled groundhog holes, righted and cleaned the stones. Jonathan did...
by Deb | Apr 5, 2020 | White Family
I have been working on additional Patriots for the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) from my White and Brown family lines and have added three, with one more in the cue to be approved. The first is George Eckert, born in 1743, possibly Earl Township,...
by Deb | Jan 18, 2020 | White Family
It is with great sadness that I pass along the news of Mary Spencer Betts (daughter of Howard and Mary White Spencer) has left us to join Bill and Kerry. She had been fighting cancer for about a year and wasn’t expected to be with us until Thanksgiving 2019, but...
by Deb | Sep 9, 2018 | Generations Remembered, Uncategorized, White Family
On the hunt for more Revolutionary War ancestors after my visit to Yorktown, VA. I have now submitted two more on the White side of the family. They are George Eckert and Samuel Milliken/Milligan. Now the wait is on for the year it will take before they are...