I live in S.W. Missouri. Retired in July of 2017 and now enjoy my hobbies of genealogy, playing bluegrass and old time music with my friends, history research (thinking about writing a book or two), and tramping around old cemeteries looking for unique, interesting and historical stones as well as sometimes helping people to find markers of ancestors or folks for whom they are searching.

Anyone is free to use photographs or biographical information that I have posted. I feel Find A Grave is an incredible research resource tool and any thing I post is for you to use if you wish.

If your settings show that you do not accept messages, I may not approve your edits. If I am not able to contact you if I have questions concerning the edits, then I will not approve the edit.

Transfers. I am perfectly fine in transferring any memorials if you wish to manage it, except for my family memorials

I am also the author of History Chiseled in Stone-Who they Were, Death in the Mines. This is a book about miners killed in mining accidents in SWMO and SEKS in the late 1880's and early 1900's. This book is available in many of the museums in the area or can be purchased by direct contact to me.