Beverly,
>Here's the info. on George Gerrish Quarterman you wanted:
Thanks.
What's the Neptune Society?
>1) Died 11/26/99 in Fort Worth, TX prostrate cancer
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>2) Cremated and he ashes were spread over the Pacific Ocean by the Neptune
>Society of Santa Barbara
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>3) A marker will be placed in Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida
>where his mother is buried Mary Ada Gerrish Quarterman
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>4) He enjoyed life to the fullest. Loved classical music and the arts. He was
>always
>joking around. A week before he died, the nurse ask him where he was and he
>said on the roof. She was worried, but I had to explain he was just being
>humorous.
There are two types of Quartermans: those with a sense of humor
and those without. It's good to hear you are of the former variety.
I won't say which kind I am. :-)
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>I am also still looking for an information regarding George's father, my
>grandfather.
>Joseph F. Quarterman. Wiley Jarrell found that possibly he moved to New
>Jersey after he divorced my grandmother.
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>He was born 1882 and died (?) 1941, father Joseph Melanchthon Quarterman b.
>1828 Georgia d. 1858 Florida
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>Does anyone have any information on him.
We know who Joseph Melanchthon Quarterman was; son of Rev. Robert Quarterman
and Eliza Winn Cassels.
His epitaph:
``A grateful tribute to pastoral faithfulness,
The trumpet of the watchman is still, but a new harp
is strung in heaven.''
For him we didn't have a son Joseph F. Quarterman, rather a
Joseph Melanchthon Quarterman Jr., married Eva Johnson in Florida,
died 1895. Is this the same person?
Or do you mean grandson, as in:
Robert QUARTERMAN
son: Joseph Melanchton QUARTERMAN
son: Samuel Cassels QUARTERMAN
son: Joseph ``Joe'' QUARTERMAN
daughter: Dorothy QUARTERMAN
I just realized this is the same Samuel Cassels Quarterman who
married Jessie ``Lou'' Owens, so you're a cousin of John Wellborn Martin,
just as you said. Family tradition often proves out.
John S. Quarterman <jsq@mids.org>