Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Unbroken Chain of Gravestones

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another challenge for us today:

For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to: 

1)  Determine what is your longest unbroken line of ancestral gravestones - how many generations can you go back in time?  Do you have photographs of them?

2)  Tell us and/or show us in a blog post of your own, or in a comment to this blog, or in a Facebook status or a Google+ stream post.

This is a very interesting project. I worked on my father’s line this week and found four generations of female ancestors where I have tombstones. Thankfully either I took the photos or they were photos that my friends took for me.

My grandmother, Anna M. Sullivan Hork, was buried at the Los Angeles National Cemetery.[1]

Los Angeles National Cemetery - photo taken by L. Gorrell ©

Her mother, Anna M. Gleeson Sullivan is buried at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Anaconda, Deer Lodge Co, Montana.[2]

Mt. Carmel Cemetery, photo taken by L. Gorrell ©

Her mother, Margaret Tierney Gleeson is buried at Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Portland, Multnomah Co, Oregon.[3]

Mt. Calvary Cemetery, photo taken by L. McCorkle ©

Her parents, John Tierney & Ann Murray, were buried at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cemetery in Fallowfield (now Ottawa), Carleton Co, Ontario, Canada.[4]

St. Patrick's Cemetery, photo taken by S. Swindell ©

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[1] Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, photo taken by L. Gorrell, 1996.

[2] Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Anaconda, Montana, photo taken by L. Gorrell, Summer 1999.

[3] Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Portland, Oregon, photo taken by L. McCorkle, Summer 2004.

[4] St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cemetery, Ottawa, Canada, photo taken by S. Swindell, Summer 2007.

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