Missing…..

  This is my great great great grandfather, David Frank Ribelin.  For many years I hit a brick wall when looking for any information about him.  Then a couple of years ago, David took our daughter to a conference in Illinois.  We discovered that he would be very close to where the Ribelins lived.  He went cemetery hopping in Morgan County Illinois and found some great treasures.  This picture  of his headstone was taken in Bethel Cemetery in Murrayville, Illinois.

We see here that his first wife, Lydia (nee Crouse) died at the age of 34.   In 1875, David Ribelin married Indiana Noll.  Her picture is below.  Now the only thing I am missing is Lydia’s picture to make this complete.  I have made so many acquaintances on the Internet and we have shared information and pictures.  I am hoping that some day I can meet someone through here, or our family tree on Ancestry.com that has a picture of Lydia Crouse Ribelin.

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This is where it all started……

I have loved genealogy ever since I was a young girl.  This picture was in an old photo album that my parents had.  I loved this picture!  It intrigued me.  I have always loved old things.  I learned how to do heirloom sewing so that  I could re-create things like her dress.  And look at her bottle!  Wouldn’t you love to have one like that in your possession?  I do not know this baby’s name, but she helped get me started in my quest for knowing my roots.  The album that her picture is in belonged to my great great grandmother Elizabeth Ellen Ribelin.  She married Cornelius Corwin Taylor, and they lived in Morgan County, Illinois.  There are lots of neat old pictures in there which I will share over time, but I really hope that someday I will learn the name of this little girl.

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