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If you have a family biography that you would like to donate to us, please feel free to email me, Deanna West You may also mail me a copy of your family biography to Deanna West, 8074 W 200 N, Michigan City, Indiana, 46360. Please include your e-mail address and full name when sending us a biography. No living persons date of birth should be included on the file, to respect Internet courtesy and overall privacy. Libraries and private individuals are welcome to print out a copy of these biographies for use as a research guide. We recommend that one always use Standards For Sound Genealogical Research set forth by the National Genealogical Society. As of Oct 3, 2009, all biographies should be submitted to be put on site and not link to other sites. This is due to folks shutting down their sites for biographies that they had stored on it and when sites are closed out by owner, the links become broken. |
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LaPorte Family Biographies
Terry or Terrey family - I am looking for a photo of my great grandfather, John Thomas Terrey, who was a county commissioner in LaPorte County, IN in the early part of the 20th century. He was also a secretary in the Masonic organization either during the last part of the 19th century or the first part of the 20th century. His father, Thomas Terrey, an English immigrant, may also have been a Mason in LaPorte County. They lived in Union Mills and are buried at Union Mills Cemetary. - Pat Terrey Rinderle at - rinderle@att.net
La Porte County History Articles
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www.indyspotlight.com/hoosierhighways.htm
"Under the wide
and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly
die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for
me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from
sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."
Those lines are
borrowed from Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, Requiem. The poem speaks to the
honor we give to those sacred places where those we love come to final rest:
the cemetery, memorial park, or graveyard. As the only animal on earth that
takes such great pains to memorialize the passing of our species, we do it with
tenderness and reverence.