Saturday, September 1, 2018

Fiona took a tour of the family burial ground of the family while they've been on vacation of the last week.  It's one the 'pioneer' graveyards in the state, and there are a lot of the old IWW tombstones the labor group put on their dead.






Since we've been in the area since '47, there tend to be a bunch of dead ones, and you have to put them someplace, right?  They also toured the town, visiting the park named for Fiona's GX5/6 (Kate, correct me here.)


I was going to include a couple of the post offices pamphlets with their pictures from the Post Office, but decided against. 




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  1. I think IWW remains important. It is part of the long list of "lest we forget," and in this case, why there is a labor day.

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    1. Laurel Hill has only a couple of the trademark IWW used for their killed while members. There's one in Portland that has more, somewhere in SE around 30th....

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  2. Oh, that's cool. Charnel Mulligan is a great name.

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    1. Certainly not one that one sees often. It's interesting in that sometimes he and his son alternatively used 'Charnel' and 'Charnelton'.

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  3. Interesting history. I wonder what is the history or reason for the way the names were printed in a kind of over lapping curve?

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    1. Dunno, Tom. Guessing it was more to do with the person who designed it than what the family wanted.

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  4. I have a friend from Chicago (though he's lived in Indianapolis since we both came there in '69) who's father was an IWW man.

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    1. Not many of those still around, in terms of we who remember.

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  5. I love the name Charnel. Is there a history of that?

    XO
    WWW

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    1. I'll ask Emily, she's done a bit of research on the Mulligan's and Spores, both came around 1840's.

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