Surname Saturday – Barnes Family in County Offaly (King’s Co.), Ireland

Our Barnes clan from County Offaly, Ireland died out with the family of John Barnes (1870-1949), his wife Bridget Larkin Barnes (1879-1934), and their only son, John Joe Barnes (1914-1998). Their son didn't marry, and after his death the family farm went to the Larkin family. I took this photo of their gravestone at the … Continue reading Surname Saturday – Barnes Family in County Offaly (King’s Co.), Ireland

Surname Saturday – Ida Lockard Eisenberger (1866-1933)

Ida Jane Lockard Eisenberger was born in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on 23 December 1866 to Washington and Elizabeth Remick Lockard. When she was fifteen she married a local boy, also from the same township, named Harry Eisenberger. This picture, that our family had kept of Ida, had been torn in half.  In … Continue reading Surname Saturday – Ida Lockard Eisenberger (1866-1933)