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Rice-Blue
Cemetery North of Galesburg, Illinois
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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. |
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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 |