Tombstone Tuesday: The Walsh Sisters

Tombstone Tuesday is a daily prompt at Geneabloggers which asks bloggers to create a post including an image of a gravestone of one or more ancestors; it may also include a brief description of the image or the ancestor.

St. Paul’s Catholic Church Cemetery in Portsmouth, Virginia is the final resting place of my paternal grandmother and grandfather, Julia Mary Walsh Slade and Fred Robert Slade.

from Findagrave
by Maggie

Julia Mary Walsh Slade

6 Sept 1907 Portsmouth, VA – 17 Apr 1982 Portsmouth, VA

Fred Robert Slade

8 Nov 1901 Princess Anne County, VA – 4 Feb 1983 Portsmouth, VA

Granny’s sister Catherine Barany(Aunt Cat) is also there:

Image from Findagrave
by Maggie

Catherine Walsh Barany

 12 Oct 1909 Portsmouth, VA – 2 Oct 1969 Portsmouth, VA

The youngest of the Walsh sisters Theresa Murray (known as Tate) is in the St. Patrick Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Image from Wikimedia

Theresa M. Walsh Crewes Murray

10 Mar 1913 Portsmouth, VA – 18 Mar 1987 Lowell, Massachusetts

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