My father came from western(Jefferson Co)PA via the Navy to Norfolk,VA during WW2; met my mother(yeh! those Southern gals finally licked those Yankee boys-of course Daddy said he wanted to get away from those deep snows!)
They moved to Corpus Christi TX, where the witches and bats brought me one Halloween morning, the first of their 7 kids. The Navy moved us from TX,to VA,to CA and back to TX(last time was in Kingsville--go Brahmas!)almost every 2-3 years and we only called Tidewater VA 'home' because most of Mama's family were still here--the Navy just didn't seem to have a base in Reynoldsville PA for some reason.
Both of my Crawford grand-parents died before my folks married and the last time I visited the Beechwoods in Jefferson County PA,I was about 7;so there isn't much I remember...I only recently found out that there was a French/German gg-mother(MaryAmandaRishelle)in this Scots/Irish(Calhoun,Hetrick,Smith,Tuner)family stew!! Thanks in part to Find A Grave...That's OK;because my husband has been trying to tract down his recently found(no one told him about any Leprechauns!)Irish side(Watchorn)who married into the Needham's and Wrights(anyone from Purple Valley Canada out there?),and his Finnish Grandmother's Mattson side from Republic, Michigan.And they married into the Pennsylvania French/German Ambrose/Boyer's from Miami/Jay County, Indiana...How everyone finally got together from such diverse backgrounds still amazes the 2 of us...
My mother's family of Talley's, Whitlock's, Sweeney's, Martin's, Heath's, Tyler's, Baskett's, Waters' and a few Crowe's came from Virginia's 'burned counties', of King William, Hanover, Henrico, and New Kent; and the Gethsemane Church yard has a lot of her family resting there.
I ended up going to Shenandoah Jr College(now I really feel my age-the place has been a University for a while now)in Wincester,VA where I met my future husband in my second year..a Music Ed/Flute Major;also a Navy Brat.. Ironicaly, we now live less than 3 miles from the area we both lived/went to school here in Va Beach--but never met until we went off500 miles to college.
I have worked 25+ years on midnight shift at a local Hospital ER(someone has to do 'the paperwork'); and sleep days; when the weather is nice, some times we will take trips to a few cemeteries in the area--
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Update, Summer of 2015; thanks to Find A Grave's Request section, I happened to see someone asking for a picture of their loved one buried just across the street from us.
While I can't 'claim' the request on the stone; because the Jones Memorial Park is not mapped out as orderly as some may be used to(I even have found a stone located in the dirt road)--(but I am having a fun, hot time looking for that stone. If the heat and the thunderstorms don't get me; the mosquitoes surely will;-)..Serendipitously I was able to get this person in contact some LIVE family here just in time for their Summer reunion. Yahoo! Best news EVER!!!
If anyone that belongs to Find A Grave happens to see my name on anything attached to the Jones Memorial Park and would like to have management transferred to them...I will be tickled to so; just add Find A Grave into the subject line, thanks....

Another year, another update. August 2016; finally I have had a chance to get to visit some of my FAG kin folk. Many are resting in Oakwood off Nine Mile Rd in Richmond and I met some really nice people in the office. The secretary was amazing; I'm in awe at how she can go through those old, old books to find grave sites. She has met Mike Tyler of FAG and Mike you have done an outstanding job on that map!! She told us that it took you 4 years to complete--WOW!
The folks at Washington Memorial were great and helped my Uncle to locate a grave that 'had a tree near here' last time he visited. I took extra pictures and will be putting them up as I can.
Loads of fun and topping it off with finding a real treat of a 90 years young cousin from my Glass/Waters/Heath family. I hope to go again.

My father came from western(Jefferson Co)PA via the Navy to Norfolk,VA during WW2; met my mother(yeh! those Southern gals finally licked those Yankee boys-of course Daddy said he wanted to get away from those deep snows!)
They moved to Corpus Christi TX, where the witches and bats brought me one Halloween morning, the first of their 7 kids. The Navy moved us from TX,to VA,to CA and back to TX(last time was in Kingsville--go Brahmas!)almost every 2-3 years and we only called Tidewater VA 'home' because most of Mama's family were still here--the Navy just didn't seem to have a base in Reynoldsville PA for some reason.
Both of my Crawford grand-parents died before my folks married and the last time I visited the Beechwoods in Jefferson County PA,I was about 7;so there isn't much I remember...I only recently found out that there was a French/German gg-mother(MaryAmandaRishelle)in this Scots/Irish(Calhoun,Hetrick,Smith,Tuner)family stew!! Thanks in part to Find A Grave...That's OK;because my husband has been trying to tract down his recently found(no one told him about any Leprechauns!)Irish side(Watchorn)who married into the Needham's and Wrights(anyone from Purple Valley Canada out there?),and his Finnish Grandmother's Mattson side from Republic, Michigan.And they married into the Pennsylvania French/German Ambrose/Boyer's from Miami/Jay County, Indiana...How everyone finally got together from such diverse backgrounds still amazes the 2 of us...
My mother's family of Talley's, Whitlock's, Sweeney's, Martin's, Heath's, Tyler's, Baskett's, Waters' and a few Crowe's came from Virginia's 'burned counties', of King William, Hanover, Henrico, and New Kent; and the Gethsemane Church yard has a lot of her family resting there.
I ended up going to Shenandoah Jr College(now I really feel my age-the place has been a University for a while now)in Wincester,VA where I met my future husband in my second year..a Music Ed/Flute Major;also a Navy Brat.. Ironicaly, we now live less than 3 miles from the area we both lived/went to school here in Va Beach--but never met until we went off500 miles to college.
I have worked 25+ years on midnight shift at a local Hospital ER(someone has to do 'the paperwork'); and sleep days; when the weather is nice, some times we will take trips to a few cemeteries in the area--
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Update, Summer of 2015; thanks to Find A Grave's Request section, I happened to see someone asking for a picture of their loved one buried just across the street from us.
While I can't 'claim' the request on the stone; because the Jones Memorial Park is not mapped out as orderly as some may be used to(I even have found a stone located in the dirt road)--(but I am having a fun, hot time looking for that stone. If the heat and the thunderstorms don't get me; the mosquitoes surely will;-)..Serendipitously I was able to get this person in contact some LIVE family here just in time for their Summer reunion. Yahoo! Best news EVER!!!
If anyone that belongs to Find A Grave happens to see my name on anything attached to the Jones Memorial Park and would like to have management transferred to them...I will be tickled to so; just add Find A Grave into the subject line, thanks....

Another year, another update. August 2016; finally I have had a chance to get to visit some of my FAG kin folk. Many are resting in Oakwood off Nine Mile Rd in Richmond and I met some really nice people in the office. The secretary was amazing; I'm in awe at how she can go through those old, old books to find grave sites. She has met Mike Tyler of FAG and Mike you have done an outstanding job on that map!! She told us that it took you 4 years to complete--WOW!
The folks at Washington Memorial were great and helped my Uncle to locate a grave that 'had a tree near here' last time he visited. I took extra pictures and will be putting them up as I can.
Loads of fun and topping it off with finding a real treat of a 90 years young cousin from my Glass/Waters/Heath family. I hope to go again.