America's National Game


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This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.




A Clash of Cymbals


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Ohio Cemetery Records


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This volume comprises all the cemetery records originally published in the fifteen volumes of The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly between 1898 and 1912. It consists principally of tombstone inscriptions from cemeteries in the following counties in northeastern and central Ohio: Athens, Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin (including the city of Columbus), Geauga, Guernsey, Jackson, Knox, Licking, Lorain, Madison, Pickaway, Portage, Ross, Trumbull, and Vinton.




Cedar Grove Cemetery Inscriptions, South Bend-St. Joseph County, Indiana


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The majority of names listed in this book are from tombstones that were "painstakingly recorded by laboriously walking through the cemetery ground. In conjunction with these is a chronological listing of names taken from a conglomeration of assorted material..." Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname and general include: the full name of the deceased, dates of birth and death, and occasionally other information such as place of death or military rank. "Realizing full well that the tombstones of Poles were inscribed in that beautiful, native language and that very few individuals can read or write same, all inscriptions have been translated except a few given names which are listed..." in a list of Polish Given Name Translations. A full-name index to buried names and a list of abbreviations add to the value of this work.










Tombstone Inscriptions of Orange County, Virginia


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The work in hand records tombstone inscriptions in 150 cemeteries, thirty-three church cemeteries, and some half-dozen proprietary cemeteries, resulting in the enumeration of perhaps as many as three thousand Orange County inhabitants, giving dates of birth and death and frequently specifying family relationships. To keep the data within practical limits, the author recorded the inscriptions of persons who either died before 1900 or were born before 1850.