Howey Part Two

 

Rice-Blue Cemetery North of Galesburg, Illinois

Located 5 miles North of Galesburg, IL, on highway 150.  Turn left at the Kozy Inn Tavern, travel past the red barn, and make a left into a pasture with the lane mowed. (If you past the Nance Memorial Cemetery on the left you have gone too far.)  Continue up the lane to the cemetery

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As found with Catherine McKee Howey's marker down and remade into a wooden type.  The McKee family graves as directly to the North side. William M. Howey (1833-1869) and Catherine McKee Howey's(1837-1904) graves.  Williams has been broken in three places and patched.
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McKee's overgrown site as found.

McKee's site after we clipped and cleaned it.
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Entrance step on North and South 
sides before cleaning.

Concrete post hold iron tube with sway chain.  
Each middle holds this cherub with tassel.

1920 Trip Taken by the Douglas Rollan Howey, Sr. Family

The information is taken in part from all photos obtained and computerized as part of the Howey genealogy. In 1920 took a trip to Los Angeles, CA,  Douglas Rollan’s brother who owned orange grooves. The trip took 3 weeks out, 6-8 weeks to visit, and 3 weeks to return. There was a caravan of six cars with other going besides the Douglas Rollan Howey, Sr family. The accompanying photos were taken with a box camera and provide by William Donald Howey.
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Berthoud Pass at the Continental Divide in Colorado. June 1920. Tip of Berthoud Pass July 8, 1920 with storm cloud approaching. Tom Ellyson, Mammie, & another holding snow at Berthoud Pass.
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Someone holding Betty, Mammie, unknown, Josephine, Dad, Bill, and Uncle Tom Ellyson. 1917 Reo in front with Model T at back. Uncle Tom Ellyson, Aunt Mammie (Helen Marion), and Josephine on the ferry crossing the Greene River in Utah. The Reo with Dad and William
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