Tombstone Tuesday: Truman Elnathan ROWLEY

Photograph by Don & Wendy McCallum
FindaGrave volunteers

TRUMAN E. ROWLEY
US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
FEB 4 1912
JAN 26 1993

Husband of my great-great-aunt, Eva Edna (Pemberton) ROWLEY
Allied Veterans Memorial Cemetery
Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan

Tombstone Tuesday: Eva Edna (Pemberton) ROWLEY

Photograph by Don and Wendy McCallum (FindAGrave)

Eva E. Rowley
Wife of Truman E. WWII Vet
July 17, 1916
June 24, 2001

My great-great-aunt
St. Denis Catholic Cemetery
Lexington, Sanilac, Michigan

Eva was the younger sister of my great-grandfather, John Vital "Jack" PEMBERTON. She was the 8th of thirteen children. She married Truman Elnathan ROWLEY on 26 Oct 1938 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Croswell, Sanilac, Michigan. She was the last of her 12 siblings to pass away.

Tombstone Tuesday: Lovell Henry and Vera Delores (Barnes) PEMBERTON

Photograph by Don and Wendy McCallum (FindAGrave volunteers)

PEMBERTON
LOVELL H.
1915-1972
VERA D.
1918-1995

My great-great-uncle and aunt
St. Denis Cemetery
Lexington, Sanilac, Michigan

This is the tombstone of my great-grandfather's younger brother, Lovell Henry PEMBERTON, and Lovell's wife, Vera Delores BARNES. Lovell was the third son and seventh child of Lovell Hugh PEMBERTON and Alvina Mary LESPERANCE. He was born 4 Jul 1915 in Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan, and died 22 Aug 1972 in Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan. He married Vera Delores BARNES, daughter of William BARNES and Eileen A. BLAKE, 10 Nov 1934 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Croswell, Sanilac, Michigan. Vera was born 10 Sep 1918 in Croswell, Sanilac, Michigan and died 3 Jan 1995 in Tucson, Pima, Arizona.

Tombstone Tuesday: Daniel and Mabel Crysler Pemberton Beedon

Photographed by Tami Lindsay

BEEDON
MABEL E.
1910-1989
DANIEL R., SR.
1911-1985

My great-grandparents
Woodland Cemetery
Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan

This is the grave of my great-grandmother, Mabel Ellen (Crysler) Pemberton Beedon. Daniel R. Beedon, Sr. was her second husband. She married him 16 Apr 1954 in Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan. Mabel was the mother of my maternal grandfather, John Peter Pemberton.

Tombstone Tuesday: Mary Margaret "Maggie" PEMBERTON

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MARY MARGARET PEMBERTON

MAY 7, 1946-OCT. 27, 1969

My great-aunt

Kinney Cemetery

Wadhams, St. Clair, Michigan

My great-aunt, Maggie, died at only 23 years of age. She was born disabled and died of complications due to epilepsy (status epilepticus). Her older sister, Evelyn, died due to epilepsy as well in 1948, when Maggie was only a year old. There is some discrepancy in Maggie's date of birth. I believe the tombstone is correct, as it coincides with her birth certificate. Her death certificate and obituary give her birth date as 21 May 1946. This is my great-aunt Barb's birthday (though a different year), so I'm not sure if my great-grandma was confusing their birthdays when she gave the info for the death certificate and obit.

Tombstone Tuesday: Lovell and Alvina (Lesperance) PEMBERTON

(Photographed by Don & Wendy McCallum - FindAGrave Volunteers)

PEMBERTON
LOVELL H.
1878-1952

ALVINA M.

1882-1961

My great-great-grandparents
St. Denis Catholic Cemetery
Lexington, Sanilac, Michigan

Tombstone Tuesday: Evelyn Marie PEMBERTON

EVELYN MARIE PEMBERTON
FEB. 29, 1936
FEB. 28, 1948

My great-aunt
Elk Township Cemetery
Peck, Sanilac, Michigan

According to Evelyn's death record at the St. Clair County Courthouse in Port Huron, Michigan, she died from continuous epileptic seizures and edema of the lungs at age 11. My great-grandmother actually had two daughters who died from this same cause. I will feature her other daughter's grave in a future Tombstone Tuesday post. What is interesting about Evelyn is that she was born on Leap Day, and if she had lived just one more day, she would have died on Leap Day. Now that would have been weird.

Tombstone Tuesday: Theodore Lewis "Teddy" PEMBERTON

Photograph by Tami (Pemberton) Lindsay

THEODORE LOUIS PEMBERTON
OCT. 30, 1932 - NOV. 15, 1935

My great-uncle
St. Mary's Cemetery
St. Clair, St. Clair, Michigan

According to his death record at the St. Clair County Courthouse, Teddy died of starvation, bronchial pneumonia, and whooping cough at age 3. My great-aunt, Barb, told me that he died in my great-grandmother's arms. She was not yet born at the time, but this is the story that she had heard from her mother, my great-grandmother.

Tombstone Tuesday: Franklin Mearl PEMBERTON

Photograph by Don & Wendy McCallum (FindAGrave volunteers)

FRANKLIN M. PEMBERTON
NOV. 26, 1933
FEB. 3, 2008

MARRIED DEC. 22, 1961

JANET M. PEMBERTON
JUNE 28, 1934

My great-uncle
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Fort Gratiot, St. Clair, Michigan

Tombstone Tuesday: John C. PEMBERTON

Photograph by Sherry (FindAGrave Volunteer)

JOHN PEMBERTON
CO. C.
1 MICH. CAV.

My great-great-great-grandfather
Centennial Cemetery
New Haven, Macomb, Michigan

Tombstone Tuesday: John Vital "Jack" PEMBERTON

JACK V. PEMBERTON
FEB. 19 1908
NOV. 22 1950

My great-grandfather
Elk Township Cemetery
Peck, Sanilac, Michigan

Tombstone Tuesday: John Peter PEMBERTON

JOHN P. PEMBERTON
MICHIGAN
SGT US AIR FORCE
WORLD WAR II
NOV 18 1928
OCT 12 1970

My maternal grandfather
Caswell Cemetery
Kimball Township, St. Clair, Michigan