Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Tombstone Tuesday - Soulos

Tom T. Soulos
1885 - 1965
Tom Theodor Soulos was born on August 15, 1885, in Calaurkata, Greece. 
He registered for the draft in Seattle on April 26, 1942. He apparently never married. 
He died March 31,1965, in Seattle, King County, Washington. He is buried in the Evergreen-Washelli Memorial Park in Seattle.

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Festus La Chester
1909-1948

Festus La Chester (Lachester) was born in 1909 in Washington State. He was a Native American of the Makah tribe. His family appears on the 1913 Indian Census Roll showing his parents to be Sebastian and Jessie (Ward). He also had a brother, Donald, enumerated at that time. They lived at Neah Bay, Clallam County, Washington.

Festus married Ada Jimmicum. They had at least two children: Festus III (1931-2001) and Stella (1938-1953

Festus died on January 5, 1948, in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington. He is buried in the Neah Bay Cemetery.

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Tombstone Tuesday - Aitchison

Clarence L. Aitchison
1905 - 1968
Mildred (Tepley) Aitchison
1910 - 1999

Clarence Aitchison was born on October 2, 1905, in Washington State. His parents were Andrew Rutherford and Margaret (Savage) Aitchison. He married Mildred Tepley on December 25, 1931, in Buhl, Twin Falls County, Idaho. Mildred was born on January 31, 1910. According to the 1940 U.S. census, she was born in Czechoslovakia. However, on the 1920 census when she was living with her widowed mother, her birthplace is listed as Wisconsin. Her mother, Annie, is a young widow at the age of 36, born in Moravia and having immigrated in 1904.

Clarence died on April 21, 1968, with Mildred following many years later on November 3, 1999. Clarence and Mildred are buried in the Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise, Ada County, Idaho.

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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Tombstone Tuesday - Armatage

Samuel Armatage

Samuel Armatage is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery in Georgetown, Idaho.
Click here to view his find-a-grave memorial.


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