Help us honor WT member Dave Ebaugh who has passed away

Question

I am sad to announce that our WikiTree member, David Ebaugh passed away this month. For those who wish to offer condolences to the family, you can do it here on the Legacy website. 

Dave was a very active member of the USBH Project. His dedication, enthusiasm, and wit will be missed. I know he was also an active member of the Accessibility Angels. In honor of his life and work, we'd like to ask for help completing some of the tasks he had on his to-do list. You can see some of his list on his personal profile. He often created stub profiles and then went back and fleshed them out because he hated mostly empty profiles. Can you help us fill some of them out?

Here is a list of his US Black Heritage profiles: 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Ebaugh-51_Black_Heritage

If you add a biography and sources, but there needs to be more family profiles attached, please add the maintenance category: [[Category: US Black Heritage Project, Needs Profiles Created]]

You can see some of the other profiles he was hoping to work on here: 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Ebaugh-51_In_Progress

Thank you for helping us honor Dave! 

Comments

This is such a shock.  He was active only 12 days ago.  

I had only interacted with Dave on the Pollard discussion on the Super Bowl EPOW thread, but enjoyed the discussion and the support.  He will be missed.

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So sad to hear of this news.  I've admired Dave's work and I was shocked to hear this.  Best wishes to his family, rest in peace brother.

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Definitely will be missed here. Rest in peace, Dave.

Answer 1

He will be missed.  I'm so sorry.

Answer 2

RIP Dave, my friend.

Answer 3

My prayers are with his family, Emma. Thank you for honoring him in this way. I am sure he would greatly appreciate the completion of his work.

Rest well Dave.

Answer 4

He was inspirational!  What a great way to honor him, by working on his to do lists!

Answer 5

This is a big loss for us and our tree. I didn't interact with Dave, but saw his work and appreciated what he did. I'm working on adding his great-grandfather's siblings and the rest of his aunts/uncles in that line. He had that on his profile page as a "to do." Rest in peace, Dave.

Comments

Dave would love that you're working on his family's tree. Thanks, Nat!

Answer 6

I had just started getting to know him through the project. I will help out with some of the profiles he was working on. What a great way to remember and honor him.

Answer 7

Thank you for posting this Emma. It's very sad news.

Dave will be missed. He was passionate about disability advocacy and making websites accessible to people with disabilities. And his IT background made him an asset to the Accessibility Angels Project - he had been using his IT skills to test how WikiTree's website measures up against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

I was just looking back through my emails with him.

Dave was always up for a challenge. To simulate what it is like for people who lack fine motor skills in their hands, one day he volunteered to use WikiTree for the whole day without touching his mouse.

I got an email from him the next day saying, "The mouseless day could have gone better. :)" After an hour and a half, he had learned enough for the whole day and went back to using the mouse to get things done!

It was great to see him diving into the US Black Heritage Project and as Member of the Week.

In another of his emails, there's a postscript, "My friends think it's cool that I know a Paralympian!"

I replied that I was no different than him. But now I realise I was wrong. I don't measure up. Rest in peace, Dave.

Comments

What a great tribute, thank you so much for sharing more about him. I really am going to miss him. Rest in peace.

Answer 8

I did not know Dave personally, he sounds a very inspirational man, who will be greatly missed, my deepest condolences to his family and friends, he goes from being an angel here to an angel up above. R.I.P  xxx

Answer 9

Very sad news. My condolences to his family and friends, who will sorely miss him.

Answer 10

My sincere condolence to his family and friends for the loss of Dave, I only knew him for a short time as a member of the Accessibility Angels Project.

Answer 11

RIP Dave, and thank you for creating all of the awesome profiles! You will certainly be missed.