Vik-Thor's Journal

 A very merry birthday to my 2nd great Grandma, Tabitha (Green) Rose!  She was born 23 May 1857, so she would be 166 years old today. :)

I didn't know anything about her until I started doing genealogy research.

I have seen documents with her name spelled as Tobitha as well as Tabitha.

 today's anniversary is Henry Arthur Lannom, who was born 13 May 1907. He was the husband of one of my grandaunts, Ella Agnes Moore. They had one son, who died at about 1 year old, in 1938. Ella died in 1940, so no direct relatives in that line. Henry remarried shortly after, to a Lyla (Fleming) Shadowens, it was her 2nd marriage also. Not sure if they had any children together, she had a son from her former marriage. (I wonder if they are related to the Shadowens who ended up buying the house on Casper Lane from mom? would be neat if so...)

There are a couple anniversaries today in my Rose line:

My great-grandma Grace Florence Gibbs was born on 10 May 1892 in White County, Illinois. She married my great-grandfather William Henry Rose on Halloween, 1908, in Hamilton County Illinois. She was only 16 at the time, to his 20... I would like to learn more about the timing of their marriage, since their first child was born less than 6 months later. My grandpa Rose was their 6th child. Grace ended up divorcing William in 1932 for abandonment and adultery. They had moved to East St. Louis (that is actually where my Grandpa was born, along with several of his siblings...) where William worked as a blacksmith for one of the railroads. She ended up back in Hamilton County, with the kids, and sued him for divorce. She actually named the woman who he "had carnal relations" with whom he ended up marrying shortly after the divorce was granted. 
Anyway, Grace remarried, to a William Edward Swallow (or Swallows) and had a couple more kids. She died in 1961, and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Hamilton County, and I have visited her grave. 
I would like to get over to White county at some point, and do some research there, as several other ancestors are born there also.

the other anniversary is the death of her ex brother-in-law, my great grand-uncle Joel Rose, who died on 10 May 1958. I don't know much about him. He is buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in McLeansboro Illinois, but I have not yet visited his grave. His gravestone on Find a Grave notes that he served in WW1.

Grace's link is to her entry on WikiTree.com , while Joel's is to his entry on FamilySearch.org. they are both collaborative family trees. FamilySearch has the document images, but WikiTree to me is more fun. To find out more about WikiTree, visit: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:About_WikiTree