Tombstone Tuesday-Broken Flower Bud
A broken flower bud was most often carved on the tombstone of an infant or a young child and symbolizes that their life was cut short. They died too young. Their life ended too soon.
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Broken bud, 1863.
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Broken bud, 1878, Ridge Slater Cemetery.
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Broken bud, 1857, Ridge Slater Cemetery.
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Broken bud, 1857, Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Schumm.
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Broken buds with cross, 1874, Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Schumm.
Karen
Greetings from the Chattanooga, Ohio, area. Yes, Ohio has its very own Chattanooga, aka Chatt, a small village in west-central Ohio, near the Indiana border. I have been doing family history research for over 20 years and am a Board-Certified genealogist, certified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists®. My main genealogical interests are family research, cemetery research, and historical and genealogical research of the Chatt area, with a focus on two area Lutheran Churches, both named Zion Lutheran, one in Chatt and the other in Schumm, Ohio. Family names I am researching include Miller, Schumm, Brewster, Rueck, Reid, Headington, Huey, Bryan, Whiteman, Schinnerer, Scaer, Breuninger, Bennett, and a few others. I belong to several lineage societies, including the Daughters of the American Revolution, U.S. Daughters of 1812, First Families of Ohio, and First Families of Mercer and Van Wert Counties. I am also a retired dental hygienist and our church organist. I hope you enjoy Karen's Chatt.
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My husband’s family also settled in Schumm Ohio.
His name is David Gunsett, father Harry Gunsett,
Grandfather Daniel Jacob Gunsett. I would be interested if you ran across the Gunsett clan in your research.
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Yes, I have written about some Gunsett connections in the Schumm area. I suggest using the search feature on Karen’s Chatt’s home page, searching for Gunsett. That should bring up the Gunsett-related blog posts. Thanks for writing!
Karen,
Thanks for all the information you share with us. When you had your problems several months ago, my e-mail address apparently got eliminated. It too me this long to finally realize I was not getting your blogs. I did enter my address in the regular box twice, but apparently it did not go through. So could you please put me back on your list.
marthalawler@yahoo.com
Thanks again, Martha Fisher Lawler
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For some reason, after having all those technical problems late last year, not all the e-mail notifications get sent out. Unfortunately, we cannot seem to get that fixed. It appears to depend on the person’s e-mail service. I get the notifications on my Bright.net account but neither Joe nor I get notifications on our G-mail accounts. I know, it is strange. I will add your e-mail to the subscriber list manually, but you still may not receive the notifications. Yahoo.com may be like G-mail and they don’t get delivered. I am not sure if it is spam setting. You might check that. Otherwise, all I can say is that I still write 2 blog posts every week and you can read them (and all posts I have ever written) by going to Karen’s Chatt home page. Sorry about the glitches. Thanks for writing.