My Trails into the Past

Author with grandmother, Anne Hork at airport before trip to Los Angeles, Summer 1969 Copyright © 2011 by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell, My Trails into the Past

"Father John Sullivan 1854 - 1932" That is what the tombstone of my great-grandfather, John H. Sullivan, reads.  I received this photo from one of my father's cousins, who lives in Southern California.  The photo does not say which cemetery he is buried in.  His death certificate states "burial Catholic Cemetery Pomona." So I visited the Catholic Cemetery in Pomona last June when I attended Jamboree.  This cemetery is Holy Cross Cemetery on 444 E. Lexington Avenue in Pomona.  I checked in with the office staff.  I had other Sullivan and Patterson family members to locate but they were unable to locate any record of John Sullivan, even checking the old ledgers.  There is another cemetery in Pomona, adjacent to Holy Cross called Pomona Cemetery.  John Sullivan was Roman Catholic and was not buried in Pomona Cemetery. So where is John located?  I wandered around the tombstones of his children who were buried there but did not f...

This is my first post for the Carnival of Genealogy.  The theme is Autumn Weddings. The first generation of Gorrells who married on October 6 were my husband's parents, George J. Gorrell and Thelma M. Nilsen.  They married in Sacramento, California on October 6, 1951.  They were married at the Westminster Presbyterian Church. The second marriage was their son, Brian E. Gorrell.  He married Patricia A. Lacki on October 6, 1984 in Watsonville, California. The third marriage was their granddaughter, Melanie L. Marmon.  She married Austin Hanzlik on October 6, 2006 in Idaho. How many families have three consecutive generations of marriages on the same day of the year? Copyright © 2011 by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell, My Trails into the Past