Harvey Jarvis died around 1881. He was age 78.
Sarah Robinson Jarvis died around 1883. She was 80.
Let’s look back at their interesting lives. We’ll also see what happened with their long term care arrangement.
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The decade after the war was the Reconstruction era. But that optimistic term defied the reality that there were both winners and losers.
Two generations of Jarvis families were living in southeast Indiana. How did they fare?
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Continue readingChurch membership grew, but slowly, on the frontier.
Despite a large number of churchmen who crossed the mountains to save the sinful frontiersmen, less than one-third of Kentucky residents belonged to any religious denomination when it became a state.
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St. John’s Catholic Church and Cemetery in Hanover witnessed the life events of our grandparents from the 1870s through the 1950s.
Continue readingFrank Teply was baptized at the Borová Evangelical Protestant Church.
And his parents made their wedding announcements here. And his grandparents are buried here. And his great-grandparents are buried here.
Continue readingIf you want to decorate a Teply ancestor grave in Junction City, you go to St. Mary’s Catholic cemetery.
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