Diane May

A photo of Gertrude Carroll, b. 1895, Rock Hill, SC. Married 1st to William D. QUINN, 2nd to Charles FORBES, d.1935, Phila.Pa. Picture taken abt 1925.

Collin Edgar and Maude Forbes

Taken shortly after his marriage to Charlotte Parker

Taken shortly after marriage to Alfred Greenwood

A photo of Warren & Edith Tilton & son Harold. Warren was a son of William B. & Rachel M. (Egbert) Tilton, and grandson of Matthew & Henrietta (Freeman) Tilton, and great grandson of Hebron & Prudence Tilton of Martha's Vineyard.
People in photo include: Warren Tilton and Edith Tilton

John McCracken's 1820 Will. He was born about 1750 in Cumberland, Pennsylvania and died in 1820 in Jonesboro (Jonesborough), Washington County, Tennessee. His father, John McCracken and others were ambushed and killed by Native Americans "Indians" in 1757. He married Margaret Patton. John and Margaret's son, John was born in 1777 in Cumberland, Pennsylvania. John married Ann Kelsey. John and Ann's son, William Kelsey McCracken (born 1807) married Jane Patton. William and Jane's son, John Jerome "J.J." McCracken (born 1860 in Laurel County, Kentucky) was married first to Elizabeth Pinkston and married second to Eliza McWhorter (born in 1874 and died in 1964 in Laurel County, Kentucky). J.J. and Eliza's daughter, Lula (born 1901) married Charles Tuttle, the son of William and Louisa (Jones) Tuttle. They had one child together named Versell Elvin Tuttle (born in April 1922 in Ky and died in Feb 1993 in Butler County, Ohio). Versell's first wife was Beulah Parsley.

This is the grave site of my 3rd maternal Great Grandparents Richard B. FORBES & Nannie Vascoe Thompson COKER. Location is Crawfordville, FL.
People in photo include: Nannie Vascoe Thompson Coker

Riley Forbes, 1807 - 1887, Territorial settler of Mt Pleasant, Henry Co., Iowa. Married Laodicea J (Lydia) Heath in 1839 and remarried Emma Woodcock in 1863 after his first wife died. Riley was born in Butler Co., Ohio and was son of Joseph T and Margaret Crooks Forbes.

Riley Forbes 1817 - 1887 was a settler of Territoral Iowa and there married Lydia Heath in 1839. After her death he remarried Emma Woodcock in 1863. Riley was born in Butler Co., Ohio to Joseph T and Margaret Crooks.

A Yankee volunteer

This is an Edwin Forbes drawing of a Zouave soldier in Petersburg Virginia during the Civil War.

I'd never heard of a Zouave soldier but evidently many countries have had them. Begun in the French Army, they were light infantry troups that wore open shirts, baggy pants, and often "oriental" headgear.

During the US Civil War, both the Union (70) and Confederacy (about 25) had zouave units. Their battle tactics were different from other troups. They "utilised light infantry tactics that emphasised open-order formations, with several feet between soldiers, rather than the customary close order, with its characteristic 'touch of elbows.' They moved at double time, rather than marching at a stately cadence, and they lay on their backs to load their rifles rather than standing to do so. To fire they rolled prone and sometimes rose on one knee."

This drawing was done in Petersburg Virginia in 1864 and is of one of those soldiers. Quite a dashing figure!

Sergeant Aynsley Stuart Forbes, RNZAF, 1940: This photo was taken on the occasion of the awarding of his pilot's brevet ("wings") in 1940 before he was shipped to war at the beginning of 1941. Because he was born on the 17th of January 1920 and New Zealand didn't ship servicemen overseas until they turned 21, he stayed in New Zealand doing extra training even though he had joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force the day war was declared on the 3rd of September 1939. He first shipped to Canada to join the Commonwealth Air Training Plan to do continental flying training, then on to Europe to an Operational Conversion Unit and finally to 15 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command where he flew Wellington bombers and, later, Stirlings. He was promoted several times and finished the war as a Flight Lieutenant (equivalent to an army Captain). He flew 14 missions over occupied Europe, before being shot down over the Netherlands in January 1943 and spending more than 2 years as a Prisoner of War. He became an airline pilot after the war, for more than twenty years in New Zealand, then in Samoa.

The Marriage of George Murrary and Elizabeth "Betty" (Sivewright) Murrary, September 1, 1931 in Chicago Illinois.
People in photo include: George Murrary

A photo of Aynsley Stuart Forbes (1920 - 1974) badge