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These photos are from “Oak Grove Cemetery Comes Alive,” an event that included living history tours of the cemetery, with several presenters speaking about the lives of men and women buried there who were involved in the CW in one way or another.…

These are photographs from the Beth Church and Cemetery Memorial Day Commemoration. This small cemetery was started in 1836, with the church being built soon after. Members of the church community began commemorating Memorial Day at Bethel Church in…

These photos are from the “Washington County CW Soldiers Monument Dedication” at Rockland Cemetery in Belpre. The monument commemorates the 4500 Washington County soldiers who served in the CW and the more than 150 who are buried at Rockland…

This event, sponsored by the Jackson County Historical Society on Memorial Day weekend 2011, honored the last the last Confederate and Union Veterans from Jackson County Ohio. The photographs show the placement of wreaths at the graves of Barak…

Photograph of Pancho Barnes posing in front of her plane.

Photograph of Pancho Barnes taken sometime during the 1929 National Air Race in Cleveland.

Photograph of Florence Lowe Barnes, also known as Pancho Barnes.

Pancho Barnes (far right) posing with other participants, including Amelia Earhart (middle with roses) in the first all Women's Air Derby held during the 1929 National Air Races at Cleveland.

Lowe's intended flight from Cincinnati shown in red. Actual flight in blue.

Publicity photograph of Florence Leontine Lowe Barnes, a.k.a. "Pancho" Barnes. Barnes was the grand daughter of Civil War Balloonist Thaddeus Lowe.