Place Index - 58

Illinois

Pope County

Alexander

Rowland, Indianna  B: 1861, D: before 1955
Smith, Fetcher  B: circa 1856
Smith, William R.  B: circa 1879

Bassett

Foster, Horace B. Jr.  B: 1829, D: 1915

Eddyville

Adams, Tennessee Caroline  B: 1843, D: 1919
Bethel, Charley  B: circa 1871
Bethel, Dora  B: circa 1870
Bethel, John D.  B: circa 1876
Bethel, Micha J.  B: circa 1865
Bethel, William Lee  B: 1879, D: 1955
Bethel, Woodford Lafayette  B: 1838, D: 1901

Golconda

(?), Anne Eliza  B: circa 1850
Davis, Elizabeth  B: 1811, D: 1874
Jackson, Tirey
Mercer, Amos Erastus  B: 1821, D: 1910
Tanner, Ada  B: circa 1867
Tanner, Charles E.  B: circa 1860
Tanner, Emeline  B: 1825, D: 1895
Tanner, Estelle  B: circa 1874
Tanner, Jane  B: circa 1862
Tanner, Levi  B: circa 1869
Tanner, Martha  B: circa 1856
Tanner, Nellie  B: circa 1872
Tanner, Thomas W.  B: circa 1865
Tanner, Thomas Wooten Jr.  B: 1828, D: 1906

Golconda North

Crotchett, Lorenzo Dow  B: 1821, D: 1906

Grand Pier

Davis, Abraham Gara  B: 1809, D: 1881
Davis, Charles F.  B: 1873
Davis, Daniel  B: circa 1864
Davis, Daniel  B: 1880
Davis, Elisabeth  B: 1869
Davis, George P.  B: 1867
Davis, Horace B.  B: 1846
Davis, John A.  B: 1866
Davis, John C.  B: 1844
Davis, Laura E.  B: circa 1879
Davis, Lemanfine  B: 1839
Davis, Mary M.  B: 1876
Davis, Susan Catherine  B: 1870, D: 1894
Davis, Thomas J.  B: 1863
Davis, William J.  B: 1878
Hobbs, Susan Catherine  B: circa 1848
Mott, Elizabeth A.  B: circa 1845
Nichols, Elizabeth  B: circa 1821

Lusk

Bebout, Uly Vern  B: 1917, D: 1985

Rock Creek

Barnard, Thomas Spencer  B: circa 1838, D: 1860

Union Twp.

(?), Elizabeth  B: circa 1846
(?), Jane  B: circa 1857
Langford, Charles Shannon  B: 1874, D: 1946
Langford, Martha V.  B: circa 1869
Langford, Richard  B: circa 1879
Langford, Samuel C.  B: circa 1872
Langford, Sarah I.  B: circa 1871
Langford, Thomas J.  B: circa 1844
Owen, A.C.  B: circa 1850
Owen, A.C.  B: circa 1850
Owen, Clinton V.  B: circa 1873
Owen, Mary Isabelle  B: 1878, D: 1962
Owen, Robert L.  B: circa 1871
Owen, Sarah E.  B: circa 1876

Posey County

Cynthiana

Knoles, Patsy R.  B: 1834, D: 1919

Mount Vernon

Foster, Mary Alice  B: 1871, D: 1935

prob. Fulton County

Powell, Cynthia Ann  B: 1812, D: after 1880

prob. Montgomery County

Birt, Abraham  B: 1790, D: 1860

prob. Pulaski County

Cantrell, Ephraim  B: 1792, D: circa 1850

Pulaski County

(?), Sarah Jane  B: 1838
(?), Sarah M.  B: 1859
Cantrell, Edwin Justin  B: 1889, D: before 1940
Cantrell, Ellen J.  B: 1865
Cantrell, Joseph  B: 1877
Cantrell, Martha  B: 1863
Cantrell, Nathaniel D.  B: 1849
Cantrell, Patrick  B: 1875
Cantrell, Ruth  B: 1893
Cantrell, Sarah Josephine  B: 1859
Cantrell, Stella  B: 1895, D: 1977
Cantrell, Stephen A.  B: 1869, D: 1946
Cantrell, William R.  B: 1857
Daniels, Oliver M.  B: 1880, D: 1956
Eastwood, Jeanette  B: circa 1868
Lentz, Arthur J.  B: circa 1934
Lentz, Arthur Roy  B: circa 1898
Lentz, Everett H.  B: circa 1921
Lentz, Irma R.  B: circa 1922
Lentz, Paul E.  B: circa 1926
Pettit, George J.
Walker, William Louis  B: 1862, D: 1898

Grand Chain Precinct

(?), Bertha  B: circa 1882
Main, David Jr.  B: 1879
Main, James G.  B: 1880
Main, Jane  B: 1867
Main, Sadie Maria  B: 1886, D: 1964
Pargellis, Helen Elizabeth  B: 1909, D: 2000
Pargellis, Wright Moore  B: 1885, D: 1956

Karnak

Main, Sadie Maria  B: 1886, D: 1964
Pargellis, Wright Moore  B: 1885, D: 1956

Mound City

Britt, Martha Drusilla  B: 1861, D: 1934
Cantrell, Stephen A.  B: 1869, D: 1946

736 Main Street

Cantrell, Stephen A.  B: 1869, D: 1946

Ohio

(?), Martha  B: circa 1835
Eastwood, Isaac  B: circa 1866
Eastwood, Jeanette  B: circa 1868
Eastwood, Mary N.  B: circa 1864
Eastwood, William  B: circa 1835

Ohio Precinct

(?), Jane  B: 1824
Cantrell, David  B: 1820
Cantrell, David  B: 1869
Cantrell, Matilda  B: 1867

Ohio Twp.

(?), Julea C.  B: circa 1837
Britt, Elias G.  B: circa 1867
Britt, Jackson  B: circa 1859
Britt, Levina  B: circa 1871
Britt, Martha Drusilla  B: 1861, D: 1934
Britt, William  B: circa 1834, D: after 1910

Olmstead

Cantrell, Stephen A.  B: 1869, D: 1946

Ullin

Daniels, Helen Lorine  B: 1913, D: 1916
Daniels, Mary Frances  B: 1918, D: 2001

Ullin Cemetery

Cantrell, Stephen A.  B: 1869, D: 1946

Villa Ridge

Shiloh Cemetery

Britt, Martha Drusilla  B: 1861, D: 1934
Walker, William Louis  B: 1862, D: 1898

Villa Ridge Cemetery

Wooldriege, Louis Harvey  B: 1879, D: 1939

Wetaug

(?), Sarah Jane  B: 1838
(?), Sarah M.  B: 1859
Cantrell, Ellen J.  B: 1865
Cantrell, Joseph  B: 1877
Cantrell, Martha  B: 1863
Cantrell, Patrick  B: 1875
Cantrell, Richard  B: 1832
Cantrell, Sarah Josephine  B: 1859
Cantrell, Stephen A.  B: 1869, D: 1946
Cantrell, William R.  B: 1857

Quincy

The Quincy Daily Whig

Salisbury, Alvin  B: circa 1837, D: 1880

Randolph County

Bremen

Barnes, Otis  B: 1873, D: 1966

Paradise Cemetery

Barnes, Edith Anna  B: 1896, D: 1986
Smith, Arthur Lee  B: circa 1894, D: 1963

Chester

Barnes, Edith Anna  B: 1896, D: 1986
Flannigan, William Wallace  B: circa 1875

Horse Prairie

Meier, Heinrich Friederich Carl  B: 1875, D: 1915

Richland County

Kellogg, Eliza  B: 1860, D: after 1951
Slover, Gilbert Russell  B: 1906, D: 1983

Dundas

Dundas Cemetery

Toland, Clifford D.  B: 1923, D: 1982

Olney

Clark, Beulah Isabella  B: 1911, D: 1994

Parkersburg

Woods, Emma Lucille  B: 1892, D: 1969

Rock Island County

Coppenbarger, Moses E.  B: 1872, D: 1911
Lake, Elsie I.  B: 1898, D: 1955
Rosenfield, Samuel A.
Schermerhorn, Adam  B: 1805, D: 1873
Schermerhorn, Martha  B: 1848
Schermerhorn, Mary  B: 1812, D: 1893
Sowers, Oliver Clyde  B: 1911, D: 2003
Westfall, Fred Wood  B: circa 1900

Cordova

Schermerhorn, Adam  B: 1805, D: 1873
Schermerhorn, Maria A.  B: 1835, D: 1920
Schermerhorn, Mary  B: 1812, D: 1893

East Moline

Chenoweth, Emmer Jennings  B: 1911, D: 1976
Debout, Roy Lymon  B: 1924, D: 1969
Derry, Violet Marie  B: 1917, D: 2011
O'Dell, Merle Jr.  B: 1925, D: 1977

Greenview Memorial Gardens

Derry, Violet Marie  B: 1917, D: 2011
Sowers, Oliver Clyde  B: 1911, D: 2003

Saint Marys Cemetery

Cresswell, Frank N.  B: 1902, D: 1978

Milan

Derry, Violet Marie  B: 1917, D: 2011
Sowers, Oliver Clyde  B: 1911, D: 2003

Moline

Rock Island Barracks

Drace, James Preston  B: 1838, D: 1914

Port Byron

Bailey, James  B: 1846, D: 1893
Bailey, Moses  B: 1805, D: 1852
Bailey, Theresa Lucretia  B: 1832, D: 1892
Marshall, Charles Boss

prob. Rock Island

Hughes, Ross E.  B: 1896

Rapid City

Hudson, Ida Bell  B: 1865

Rock Island

Alkire, Mary F.  B: 1863, D: 1942
Blickenstaff, Robert Eugene  B: 1943, D: 2001
Cantrell, Leonard  B: 1842, D: 1922
East, Cecile Garnet  B: 1894, D: 1983
Hughes, Arla J.  B: 1872, D: 1939
Slocum, Lyman Cruse  B: 1848, D: 1914
Van Valkenburg, Lucretia  B: 1806, D: 1893

Whites Addition

Stroops, Cletus H.  B: 1895, D: 1974

Rockford

The Morning Star

Pargellis, Stanley McCrory  B: 1898, D: 1968
Slocum, Eva
Slocum, Louis Lyman  B: 1877, D: 1975

The Register-Republic

Pargellis, Stanley McCrory  B: 1898, D: 1968

The Rockford Morning Star

Cantrell, J.D.  B: 1930, D: 1957
Cantrell, J.D.  B: 1930, D: 1957

Saint Clair County

Caskey, Sarah Ann  B: 1843, D: 1865
Young, Martin Van Buren  B: 1839, D: 1895

Belleville

Barnhill, Josephine Elizabeth  B: 1878, D: 1953
Bartholomew, Marshall  B: 1885, D: 1978
Bartholomew, Miles Marshall  B: 1844
Burgard, Pius Orvis  B: 1906, D: 2001
Free, Emmeline  B: 1826, D: 1875
Pollard, Mary Edna  B: 1927, D: 2012
Tilley, James Ninian  B: 1901, D: 1983

Walnut Hill Cemetery

Macek, Steve George  B: 1898, D: 1929
Sterling, Thena Ellen  B: 1916, D: 1955

Dupo

McClellan, Howard Dean  B: 1936, D: 2012

East Saint Louis Twp.

Brownlee, Addison McClung  B: 1846, D: 1911
Brownlee, John James  B: 1893, D: 1971
Brownlee, Katie  B: 1897
Cantrell, Mary Illinois  B: 1859, D: 1925
Nolen, Joe St. Clair  B: 1906, D: 1961

Swansea

Macek, Steve George  B: 1898, D: 1929

Saint Louis City

East Saint Louis

Claar, Edwin Orville  B: 1922, D: 1946

Saline County

Allen, Sarah A.  B: circa 1856
Barton, Ruth  B: 1922
Burnett, Charles L.  B: 1835, D: 1871
Burnett, William  B: 1772, D: 1856
Cantrell, Sarah Almeda  B: circa 1865, D: 1947
Chase, Eva  B: 1888, D: 1951
Chinn, Laura Glenn  B: 1904, D: 1937
Cowger, Joseph Nathan  B: 1901, D: 1957
Cowgur, Asa Adam  B: 1905, D: 1907
Cowgur, Cecil Aaron  B: 1907, D: 1990
Cowgur, Esther Marcella  B: 1916, D: 1975
Cowgur, Mary Elizabeth  B: 1910, D: 1910
Cowgur, Minnie Dearle  B: 1911, D: 1983
Cowgur, William Earl  B: 1902, D: 1907
Farley, James Gordon  B: 1919
Furlong, Ertla Everett  B: 1913, D: 1983
Garner, Adaline  B: circa 1867
Harris, Samantha Elizabeth  B: 1865, D: 1951
Johann, Wilhemenia
Keelin, Zada Jane  B: 1839, D: 1913
Lancaster, Gladys  B: 1908, D: 1942
Langford, Charles Shannon  B: 1874, D: 1946
McMurtry, Charles Adrian  B: 1925
McMurtry, Lois Ann  B: 1933, D: 1945
McMurtry, Silas Adrain  B: 1905, D: 1967
McMurtry, Steven Logan  B: 1879, D: 1924
McMurtry, Thelma Adis  B: 1911, D: 1992
McMurtry, Wanda Lou  B: 1928
Moser, Floy Vivian  B: 1900, D: 1914
Moser, Furman Ewing  B: 1902, D: 1973
Moser, Peter Ewing  B: 1870, D: 1951
Moser, Peter Finas Ewing  B: 1838, D: 1886
Odle, Uriah K.  B: 1862, D: 1950
Owen, Mary Isabelle  B: 1878, D: 1962
Reeder, Charles Richard  B: 1925, D: 1978
Reeder, Earl  B: 1882, D: 1960
Reeder, Edna Marie  B: 1926
Reeder, Elney Mae  B: 1886, D: 1935
Reeder, Ethney Chloe  B: 1887, D: 1982
Reeder, Freeman  B: 1922, D: 1978
Reeder, James Lewis  B: 1850, D: 1887
Reeder, Josephus  B: 1851
Reeder, Juanita  B: 1928
Reeder, Juel Everett  B: 1896
Reeder, Nathan  B: 1819, D: 1884
Reeder, Richard Gillison  B: 1854, D: 1896
Reeder, Shannon Ray  B: 1942, D: 1942
Reeder, Shirley Mae  B: 1936, D: 1936
Reeder, Thomas  B: 1855
Reeder, William Henry  B: circa 1852
Robertson, Roy L.  B: 1885, D: 1959
Shelton, Robert Lee  B: 1889, D: 1962
Short, Malissa  B: circa 1857
Stricklin, John William Deneen  B: 1904, D: 1952
Willis, Harrison  B: 1878, D: 1983
Young, Frances Ann  B: 1860

Douglas

Harris, Samantha Elizabeth  B: 1865, D: 1951

District 108

Harris, Samantha Elizabeth  B: 1865, D: 1951

Eldorado

Jordan, Richard  B: 1874, D: 1908
Langford, Nola Belle  B: 1904, D: 1992
Reeder, Freeman Richard  B: 1894, D: 1971
Sprague, Italene  B: 1895, D: 1973
Winters, Robert E.  B: 1871, D: 1962

Chapel Cemetery

Furlong, Ertla Everett  B: 1913, D: 1983
Shaver, Hazel  B: 1911, D: 1997

Galatia

Cowgur, James Adam  B: 1880, D: 1946
Foster, Julie Margaret  B: 1948, D: circa 1983
Jordan, Mary Parthena  B: 1867, D: 1933
Milligan, Emery O.  B: 1911, D: 1996
Odle, Sarah Caroline  B: 1861, D: 1956
Richey, Martha A.  B: 1848, D: 1929
Sprague, Scott  B: 1866, D: 1952
Sprague, Stella  B: 1889, D: 1967

District 107

Keelin, Zada Jane  B: 1839, D: 1913
Moser, Charles H.  B: circa 1872
Moser, Clarrus  B: circa 1874
Moser, George A.  B: circa 1865
Moser, James F.  B: circa 1867
Moser, Peter Ewing  B: 1870, D: 1951
Moser, Peter Finas Ewing  B: 1838, D: 1886
Moser, Silas E.  B: circa 1878

Ebenezer Cemetery

(?), Irene  B: 1898, D: 1979
Jordan, Mary Parthena  B: 1867, D: 1933
Medlin, Wedlin  B: 1894, D: 1975
Milligan, Charles Monroe  B: 1890, D: 1952
Milligan, William Thomas  B: 1844, D: 1924
Richey, Martha A.  B: 1848, D: 1929
Sprague, Dorothy  B: 1919, D: 1942
Sprague, James Scott  B: 1911, D: 1985
Sprague, Jessie B.  B: 1897, D: 1977
Sprague, Mary  B: 1899, D: 1998
Sprague, Scott  B: 1866, D: 1952
Sprague, Stella  B: 1889, D: 1967

Harco

Brushy Cemetery

Call, Betty A.  B: 1932, D: 2008
Sprague, James Leon  B: 1933, D: 2007

Harrisburg

Bartlett, Le Roy  B: 1878
Belt, Alice Della  B: 1873, D: 1941
Belt, Hiram Jonas Jr.  B: 1832, D: 1899
Belt, Horace  B: 1901, D: 1984
Belt, Norman  B: 1884, D: 1929
Cummings, Catharine Ellen  B: 1890, D: 1945
Foster, Lowell Mack  B: 1923, D: 1985
Foster, Monte Bennett  B: 1918
Foster, Richard Harold  B: 1913, D: 1973
Foster, Thelma  B: 1911
Morse, Richard  B: circa 1875, D: 1942
Nesbit, Eleanor  B: 1837, D: 1915
Powell, Floyd  B: 1904, D: 1975
Shelton, Robert Lee  B: 1889, D: 1962
Webster, John Elliott  B: 1874, D: 1956

Sunset Hill Cemetery

Shelton, Robert Lee  B: 1889, D: 1962
Sprague, Italene  B: 1895, D: 1973

West Lincoln

(?), Rose  B: 1880
Bartlett, Le Roy  B: 1878

Ledford

Foster, Forrest Lee  B: 1916, D: 1917

Lindale Memorial Cemetery

Harris, Samantha Elizabeth  B: 1865, D: 1951

Plainview

District 111

Allen, Sarah A.  B: circa 1856
Reeder, Andrew Jackson  B: circa 1868
Reeder, Elizabeth  B: 1860
Reeder, Homer  B: circa 1869
Reeder, James Lewis  B: 1850, D: 1887
Reeder, Josephus  B: 1851
Reeder, Lora  B: 1879
Reeder, Loretta Jane  B: 1862
Reeder, Loula  B: circa 1879
Reeder, Margaret  B: 1856
Reeder, Nathan  B: 1819, D: 1884
Reeder, Richard Gillison  B: 1854, D: 1896
Reeder, Thomas  B: 1855
Rutledge, Catherine Ann  B: 1825
Wise, Mollie  B: circa 1879
Young, Frances Ann  B: 1860

Post Office: Raliegh

Burnett, Charles L.  B: 1835, D: 1871
Burnett, William  B: circa 1859
Karnes, Julia Ann  B: 1836, D: 1865

Raleigh

Burnett, Charles L.  B: 1835, D: 1871
Burnett, Mary Jane  B: 1861, D: 1932
Karnes, Julia Ann  B: 1836, D: 1865
Wright, Elizabeth Dieademia  B: 1846, D: 1924

Raleigh Precinct

(?), Mary A.  B: circa 1817
Karnes, Americus  B: circa 1840
Karnes, Andrew  B: circa 1842
Karnes, Daniel  B: circa 1846
Karnes, Francis M.  B: circa 1834
Karnes, George  B: circa 1787
Karnes, George  B: circa 1848
Karnes, Julia Ann  B: 1836, D: 1865
Karnes, Nancy  B: circa 1844
Karnes, Thomas  B: circa 1850
Karnes, William  B: circa 1838

Raleigh Twp.

Odle, James  B: circa 1859, D: 1935

Rileyville

Ebenezer Cemetery

Cantrell, Sarah Almeda  B: circa 1865, D: 1947
Jordan, Mary Parthena  B: 1867, D: 1933
Medlin, Paul  B: circa 1920, D: 1974
Moser, Floy Vivian  B: 1900, D: 1914
Moser, Furman Ewing  B: 1902, D: 1973
Moser, Peter Finas Ewing  B: 1838, D: 1886

Stonefort

Oxford, Sidney Sorado  B: 1868, D: 1899

Sangamon County

(?), Ellender  B: between 1807 and 1808, D: 1880
Adams, Fannie Burch  B: 1875, D: 1945
Alexander, James M.  B: 1875
Alexander, Sarah S.  B: 1820, D: 1905
Alkire, (?)  B: 1824, D: 1827
Alkire, Amanda  B: 1815, D: 1895
Alkire, George Nave  B: circa 1808, D: 1889
Alkire, Harmonus  B: 1804, D: 1896
Alkire, John Davis  B: 1832, D: 1909
Alkire, John Nation  B: 1796, D: 1877
Alkire, Leonard  B: 1830, D: 1884
Alkire, Lydia  B: 1821, D: 1908
Alkire, Margaret J.  B: 1833
Alkire, Melissa Elizabeth  B: 1808, D: 1900
Alkire, Nancy  B: 1811, D: 1896
Alkire, Suzannah  B: 1810, D: 1898
Ambuehl, John Andrew  B: circa 1884, D: 1949
Argo, Jeremiah  B: circa 1821
Bailey, George W.  B: circa 1824
Baker, Thomas A.  B: 1877, D: 1960
Barnes, Laura E.  B: 1863
Bates, Asaph  B: circa 1828
Bates, Elizabeth A.  B: circa 1858
Bates, Isaac D.  B: 1852
Bates, John T.  B: circa 1856
Bates, Joseph W.  B: circa 1860
Bates, Theresa E.  B: circa 1854
Black, Anna Laura  B: 1863, D: 1942
Black, Reuben D.  B: circa 1811, D: before 1840
Bonham, Garrett  B: 1813, D: 1870
Brancher, Rachel  B: 1821
Brisentine, Anna Mary  B: 1883
Brisentine, Maggie Harriet  B: 1881
Brisentine, Mamie  B: 1886
Brisentine, William  B: circa 1832, D: before 1880
Brisentine, William Lewis  B: circa 1856
Brown, Martha  B: 1861, D: 1888
Bumgardner, William Nick
Canterbury, Margaret A.  B: circa 1849
Cantrall, Ada Ellen  B: 1873
Cantrall, Adam M.  B: 1815, D: 1882
Cantrall, Albert D.  B: circa 1869
Cantrall, Alfred L.  B: 1877
Cantrall, Almyra J.  B: 1837, D: 1857
Cantrall, Andrew Jackson  B: 1829, D: 1842
Cantrall, Ann  B: 1812, D: 1852
Cantrall, Anna  B: 1806, D: 1855
Cantrall, Arthur Wiatt  B: 1876
Cantrall, Barton R.  B: 1856, D: 1906
Cantrall, Benjamin Franklin  B: 1870, D: 1943
Cantrall, Charles  B: 1861
Cantrall, Charles S.  B: 1826, D: 1875
Cantrall, Charlotte  B: 1871
Cantrall, Clarissa  B: 1833
Cantrall, Cora M.  B: 1878
Cantrall, David Austel  B: 1907
Cantrall, David P.  B: 1818, D: 1892
Cantrall, Deborah  B: 1817, D: 1882
Cantrall, Dorothy  B: 1805, D: 1855
Cantrall, Eleanor  B: 1819, D: 1894
Cantrall, Eli  B: 1859
Cantrall, Eliza  B: 1813, D: 1876
Cantrall, Eliza  B: 1852
Cantrall, Elizabeth  B: 1808, D: 1878
Cantrall, Elizabeth  B: 1851
Cantrall, Elizabeth E.  B: 1820, D: 1850
Cantrall, Ethel B.  B: 1881
Cantrall, Fannie P.  B: 1843
Cantrall, George H.  B: 1882
Cantrall, Harriett  B: circa 1837, D: before 1880
Cantrall, Harry  B: 1880
Cantrall, Henry  B: 1849
Cantrall, Henry  B: 1906, D: 1974
Cantrall, Hiram P.  B: 1842
Cantrall, Jacob Ernest  B: 1883, D: 1967
Cantrall, Jacob M.  B: 1841
Cantrall, Jane  B: 1840
Cantrall, Jasper H.  B: 1847
Cantrall, Jeremiah S.  B: 1848
Cantrall, John A.  B: 1850, D: 1857
Cantrall, John D.  B: 1844, D: 1863
Cantrall, Joseph W.  B: 1874
Cantrall, Joshua L.  B: 1828, D: 1882
Cantrall, Joshua Mitts  B: 1810, D: 1891
Cantrall, Joshua P.  B: 1843
Cantrall, Julia Ann  B: 1847, D: 1933
Cantrall, Lafayette  B: 1849
Cantrall, Levi  B: 1787, D: 1860
Cantrall, Levi  B: 1838
Cantrall, Levi L. Jr.  B: 1822, D: 1863
Cantrall, Lewis Edward  B: 1858, D: 1885
Cantrall, Lucinda Jane  B: 1847
Cantrall, Lula F.  B: circa 1879
Cantrall, Mahala  B: 1818, D: before 1876
Cantrall, Mahala E.  B: 1845, D: 1887
Cantrall, Margaret A.  B: 1855
Cantrall, Martha  B: 1857
Cantrall, Martha Jane  B: circa 1844
Cantrall, Mary A.  B: circa 1866
Cantrall, Mary E.  B: 1844
Cantrall, Mary Eleanor  B: 1848, D: after 1880
Cantrall, Mary Ellen  B: circa 1854, D: 1935
Cantrall, McDonald  B: 1833, D: 1872
Cantrall, Melissa E.  B: 1868
Cantrall, Minnie  B: 1884
Cantrall, Miranda  B: 1850, D: 1881
Cantrall, Miranda J.  B: 1826, D: 1908
Cantrall, Nancy Ann  B: 1840, D: 1917
Cantrall, Nettie  B: 1884
Cantrall, Nora J.  B: circa 1876
Cantrall, Oscar  B: 1880
Cantrall, Pency  B: 1853
Cantrall, Percy Wilson  B: 1892, D: 1976
Cantrall, Rachel  B: 1824
Cantrall, Rachel  B: 1853, D: 1916
Cantrall, Robert Hale  B: 1851, D: 1935
Cantrall, Samuel Denny  B: 1816, D: 1884
Cantrall, Sarah Emma  B: 1862, D: 1941
Cantrall, Sarah M.  B: 1869
Cantrall, Stephen L.  B: 1815, D: 1875
Cantrall, Susannah  B: 1820, D: 1863
Cantrall, Thirza  B: 1812, D: 1851
Cantrall, Thomas Carsey  B: 1810, D: 1856
Cantrall, Thomas J.  B: 1842
Cantrall, Turner H.  B: 1834, D: 1863
Cantrall, Wilbur  B: 1877
Cantrall, William  B: circa 1874
Cantrall, William F.  B: 1829
Cantrall, William Graham  B: 1784, D: 1867
Cantrall, William Graham  B: 1837
Cantrall, William H.  B: 1869
Cantrall, William J.  B: 1831, D: 1896
Cantrall, William J.  B: 1855, D: 1862
Cantrall, William M.  B: 1822, D: 1864
Cantrall, William M.  B: 1849, D: 1895
Cantrall, William Mack  B: 1853
Cantrall, Young M.  B: 1836, D: 1863
Cantrall, Zebulon Graham  B: 1835, D: 1896
Cantrell, Sarah  B: 1812, D: 1887
Cantrell, Thomas  B: 1820, D: 1865
Cantrell, Zebulon  B: 1818, D: 1864
Center, Elizabeth
Center, Thursey  B: 1818, D: before 1880
Claypool, William R.  B: 1831, D: 1907
Claywell, Adaline  B: circa 1827, D: after 1900
Claywell, Benjamin F.  B: circa 1838
Claywell, Jesse Barriman  B: 1831, D: 1891
Claywell, Julia Ann  B: circa 1817
Council, Flora J.  B: 1859, D: 1913
Crawford, William
Denny, Esther
Denny, Raymond C.  B: 1877, D: 1877
Drone, Henrietta  B: circa 1849
Duncan, William Henry  B: 1843
Ealey, John N.  B: circa 1859
Earley, Mary  B: circa 1842
England, Frances  B: 1792, D: 1835
Engle, (?)  B: 1825, D: 1825
Engle, Almira  B: 1834
Engle, Clerrinda C.  B: 1833, D: 1834
Engle, Elizabeth  B: 1846, D: 1912
Engle, Francis M.  B: 1832, D: 1834
Engle, Isaac Jr.  B: 1834, D: 1915
Engle, James H.  B: 1835, D: 1837
Engle, John Martin  B: 1827, D: 1913
Engle, John Menard  B: 1826, D: 1890
Engle, Joseph Powell  B: 1831
Engle, Levi Jr.  B: circa 1805, D: circa 1860
Engle, Rebecca  B: 1836, D: 1838
Engle, Sarah  B: 1831
Engle, William A.  B: 1801, D: 1870
Estell, Elizabeth  B: 1822
Eunice, L. Elizabeth  B: circa 1841
Fagan, Elizabeth J.  B: circa 1834, D: 1853
Freeman, Ettie
Freidinger, Frances Anna
Gaddis, Eva
Gerky, Michael
Godfrey, Nancy Adeline
Goff, Lorena  B: 1870, D: 1954
Graham, Emma E.  B: 1853
Graham, Mary Ellen  B: circa 1841
Grant, Julia A.  B: circa 1815, D: circa 1899
Guyott, Edward
Hanna, William Anson  B: 1870, D: 1929
Hedrick, Rebecca  B: 1828, D: 1908
Hendricks, Earl Chester  B: 1885
Hendricks, Joseph H.  B: 1846, D: after 1896
Hendricks, Parley  B: 1876
Hendricks, Zella May  B: 1880
Hoag, Laura E.  B: circa 1855
Holland, Fanny  B: 1835
Holland, Milam  B: 1837
Horn, Benjamin Francis  B: 1846
Hornback, Andrew Trumbo  B: 1807, D: 1895
Hornback, Hiram P.  B: 1830, D: 1902
Hughes, Hugh D.  B: circa 1812, D: 1862
Hughes, Pauline  B: 1835
Hughes, Robert T.  B: 1813, D: 1875
Jennings, James
Jones, Alexious Leander  B: 1838, D: 1898
Jones, John Strother  B: 1842, D: 1844
Jones, Joshua  B: circa 1842, D: 1891
Jones, Katherine  B: 1858, D: 1933
Jones, Strother Gaines  B: 1813, D: 1901
Jordan, John  B: 1817, D: 1894
King, Eliza J.  B: circa 1834
King, Elizabeth C.  B: 1826, D: 1896
Kingsberry, Lucy  B: circa 1834
Langston, Beulah  B: circa 1869
Langston, Emily  B: 1832, D: 1872
Langston, Ida S.  B: circa 1868
Langston, James B.  B: 1836
Langston, John  B: 1834, D: 1864
Langston, John O.  B: circa 1864
Langston, Joseph D.  B: 1805
Langston, Mary A.  B: circa 1862
Langston, Sarah A.  B: circa 1862, D: before 1880
Langston, Theresa  B: 1834, D: 1856
Langston, William C.  B: 1830
Lanterman, Daniel W.  B: 1845
Lilly, Elizabeth J.  B: 1838
Long, Stella Gertrude  B: 1886, D: 1954
Mallory, Egbert Ormond  B: 1831, D: 1916
Mallory, Erminia R.  B: 1869, D: 1966
Mallory, Henry E.  B: circa 1874
Mallory, James Dawson  B: 1839
Mallory, John Thomas  B: 1825, D: 1878
Mallory, Rollin Valentine  B: 1849, D: 1927
Mallory, Thomas J.  B: 1861, D: 1889
Manley, Elmira  D: 1932
Mann, Sarah A.  B: circa 1834
Margrett, Edward Lawson  B: circa 1868
Masters, Justina  B: 1857, D: 1906
McClelland, Mary Luticia  B: 1864
McLemore, Eleanor  D: before 1861
McLemore, John W.  D: 1871
McLemore, Priscilla D.  B: 1814, D: before 1848
Mellinger, Deborah A.  B: 1862, D: 1917

(cont.)

• A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
  — Will Rogers
• A fool and his money are soon elected.
  — Will Rogers
• A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
  — Will Rogers
• A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
  — Will Rogers
• A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
  — Will Rogers
• About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
  — Will Rogers
• Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
  — Will Rogers
• Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
  — Will Rogers
• All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
  — Will Rogers
• America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
  — Will Rogers
• America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
  — Will Rogers
• An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
  — Will Rogers
• An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
  — Will Rogers
• An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
  — Will Rogers
• Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
  — Will Rogers
• Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
  — Will Rogers
• Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
  — Will Rogers
• Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
  — Will Rogers
• Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
  — Will Rogers
• Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
  — Will Rogers
• Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
  — Will Rogers
• Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
  — Will Rogers
• Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
  — Will Rogers
• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
  — Will Rogers
• Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
  — Will Rogers
• Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
  — Will Rogers
• Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
  — Will Rogers
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
  — Will Rogers
• Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.
  — Will Rogers
• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
  — Will Rogers
• Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
  — Will Rogers
• Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
  — Will Rogers
• Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
  — Will Rogers
• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
  — Will Rogers
• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
  — Will Rogers
• I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
  — Will Rogers
• I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
  — Will Rogers
• I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
  — Will Rogers
• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
  — Will Rogers
• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
  — Will Rogers
• I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
  — Will Rogers
• I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
  — Will Rogers
• I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
  — Will Rogers
• If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
  — Will Rogers
• If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
  — Will Rogers
• If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
  — Will Rogers
• If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
  — Will Rogers
• If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
  — Will Rogers
• If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
  — Will Rogers
• If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
  — Will Rogers
• If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
  — Will Rogers
• I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
  — Will Rogers
• In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
  — Will Rogers
• In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
  — Will Rogers
• Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
  — Will Rogers
• It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
  — Will Rogers
• It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
  — Will Rogers
• It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
  — Will Rogers
• It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
  — Will Rogers
• Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
  — Will Rogers
• Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
  — Will Rogers
• Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
  — Will Rogers
• Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
  — Will Rogers
• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
  — Will Rogers
• Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
  — Will Rogers
• Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
  — Will Rogers
• Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
  — Will Rogers
• Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
  — Will Rogers
• Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
  — Will Rogers
• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
  — Will Rogers
• One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
  — Will Rogers
• One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
  — Will Rogers
• Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
  — Will Rogers
• People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
  — Will Rogers
• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
  — Will Rogers
• People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
  — Will Rogers
• Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
  — Will Rogers
• Politics is applesauce.
  — Will Rogers
• Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
  — Will Rogers
• So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
  — Will Rogers
• So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
  — Will Rogers
• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
  — Will Rogers
• The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
  — Will Rogers
• The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
  — Will Rogers
• The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
  — Will Rogers
• The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
  — Will Rogers
• The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
  — Will Rogers
• The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
  — Will Rogers
• The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
  — Will Rogers
• The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
  — Will Rogers
• The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
  — Will Rogers
• The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
  — Will Rogers
• The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
  — Will Rogers
• The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
  — Will Rogers
• The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
  — Will Rogers
• The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
  — Will Rogers
• The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
  — Will Rogers
• The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
  — Will Rogers
• The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
  — Will Rogers
• There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
  — Will Rogers
• There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
  — Will Rogers
• There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
  — Will Rogers
• There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
  — Will Rogers
• There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
  — Will Rogers
• There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
  — Will Rogers
• Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
  — Will Rogers
• Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
  — Will Rogers
• This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
  — Will Rogers
• This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
  — Will Rogers
• We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
  — Will Rogers
• We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
  — Will Rogers
• We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
  — Will Rogers
• We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
  — Will Rogers
• What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
  — Will Rogers
• When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
  — Will Rogers
• When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
  — Will Rogers
• When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
  — Will Rogers
• When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
  — Will Rogers
• Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
  — Will Rogers
• Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
  — Will Rogers
• You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
  — Will Rogers
• You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
  — Will Rogers
• Every person you will pass on the street today is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
  — Sam Harris
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do one thing every day that scares you.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do one thing every day that scares you.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Never allow a person to tell you 'no' who doesn't have the power to say 'yes.'
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Work is always an antidote to depression.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do …
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• It's your life-but only if you make it so.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Courage is exhilarating.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The giving of love is an education in itself.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• All of life is a constant education.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt