Sunday's Obituary - Roseanne Creeden

I posted earlier about an obit card from the Mercer County, Ohio library for Roseanne Creeden and decided to follow up and see if they had the actual obituary. I was surprised to find that there was an article in the newspaper since Roseanne's guardian Timothy Creeden died in 1899 and her parents were listed as unknown on her death certificate. I knew from the 1900-1920 census records that Roseanne had been confined to the county infirmary for a number of years. She died on June 30, 1922. While the obituary states that she was a lifelong resident of Celina, I know from other records that she was born in Clinton County, Ohio to parents Patrick Creedan and Hannah Hoover.

                                                                 MISS CREEDEN

                                                    DIED FRIDAY AT THE COUNTY
                                                                         HOME

                                                  Following an Operation on Thursday—
                                                      Funeral Held Saturday Morning
                                                            at Catholic Church and
                                                                Burial at Catholic
                                                                      Cemetery

   Miss Rose Creeden died at the County Home Friday afternoon at 3. She had been an inmate at that place for 27 years and early Thursday morning became critically ill and was operated upon Thursday afternon for a ruptured gall duct, but was not strong enough to recover from the operation.
   At the time of her death she was 66 years of age and has always been a resident of Celina, her parents having preceded hir in death several years ago.
   Funeral held Saturday morning at 8 o'clock at the Catholic church with Rev. Father Isadore officiating, and burial at Catholic cemetery.

The obituary was published in The Standard, Celina, Ohio on Friday, July 7, 1922. Thanks to Ken of the Mercer County Library for looking it up for me.

Follow Friday - Week of July 5, 2013

Falcon Solo about to take first flight as Mom watches

Here are a few of my favorite finds for the past week:

• The Genealogy Insider asks what 2% of Ancestry.com users have in common. Hint: It has to do with searching!
• The Ohio Memory project's Digital Newspaper Portal has lists of links to digitized Ohio newspapers by title, county, region, time period and Civil War titles.
• Dayton Innovation Legacy has an interesting article on John H. Patterson, the founder of National Cash Register (NCR) credited with being a pioneer of the modern sales force and progressive employee policies.
• Yvonne shares a tip on recording the height of her family members in Measuring Up.
• Ellie's Ancestors recommends searching YouTube for videos of your ancestor's homeland and history.
• Abt Unk posts about how a German “Maibaum” (Maypole) tells the history of the town of Fredericksburg.
• Follow the continuing drama as a pair of Salt Lake City falcons raise their chick named Solo.

Those Places Thursday - Happy 4th of July!

This was one of our neighborhood parades with our bikes all decked out for the holiday. I'd forgotten that we even had red, white, and blue outfits! My BFF is on the left with me next to her and my sister in front of us. Those parades were great fun!

Wordless Wednesday - Mystery Photo

 

This is one of the more curious photos in my Dad's collection. It was unlabeled and probably taken in Celina, Ohio.

Tuesday's Tip - Check your Spam Folder!

Have you ever had someone email you about possible family links or one of your blog posts only to never be heard from again? I suspect my responses are winding up in their Spam or Junk folders a lot of the time.

Almost all email tools have a Spam or Junk folder where your email provider attempts to route emails it thinks are spam. The problem is that legitimate emails can get routed here too. I check my Spam folder daily and find at least one or two legitimate emails a week. In the case of my Yahoo email, I can designate the legitimate email as "Not Spam" and it will be moved to my Inbox.

Blog posts can also be routed to a Spam folder. Blogger divides comments into Published, Awaiting Moderation and Spam. It's a good idea to check the Blogger Spam folder once in a while just to make sure you didn't miss a valid comment.

To check for spam comments on your blog, first go to your Design page. For my blog, a Design button is visible on the top right of my blog page, but your location may vary depending on your template. This is the page where you can customize your blog template and settings. Once you're there, select "Comments" from the list in the left-hand column and you should see a list of Published Comments. The left-hand column has selections for Published, Awaiting Moderation, and Spam. Click on Spam and from there you can review any comments in the Spam folder. Since I started moderating my comments, I haven't received any comments in the Spam folder, but I suppose it's still possible.

My most recent contact was someone requesting more information about a Creedon family that was in the Guion Miller rolls. I emailed back to tell him that I would scan the rest of the information and to watch for another email. I didn't hear back which should have been a clue. I went ahead and scanned and sent the information, but didn't hear back again. Did he receive it and not answer? Or did it wind up in his Spam folder? I'll probably never know!