James Hendrickson – Great-Grandpa The little I know about my great-grandfather, James Hendrickson, was told to me by my Aunt[…]
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Get Well Cards – Then & Now
The Stories We Wish We Knew In February 1931, my great-grandmother sent this get well card to my dad. At[…]
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Sarah Josephine Dimmitt Great-Grandmother
Samuel Broyles Dearing 2nd Great-Grandfather
Robert McClelland Hume 3rd Great-Grandfather
Rachel Knox Brooks 4th Great-Grandmother
Rachel Brooks was born about 1787 in Pennsylvania. On April 9, 1807, she married Joseph Knox in Highland County, Ohio.[…]
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Philip Reger 4th Great-Grandfather
Peter Schor my Moravian 4th Great-Grandfather
From the Moravian Church in America baptismal record: Petrus Schor was born in Bethania, N.C., June 7, 1771 and baptized[…]
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Nancy Gregory 3rd Great-Grandmother
Nancy Caroline Gregory was born about 1797 in Washington County, Kentucky. On 13 September 1819, she married Wiley Hatton.[…]
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Mary Phillips 3rd Great-Grandmother
Mary Polly Phillips was born 11 April 1806 in Surry County, North Carolina. She died 1 February 1864 in Chapel[…]
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John Snow 3rd Great-Grandfather
Emily Dickinson and I Did the Same Thing
This is the second in a series of story-saving techniques I’m an avid reader of Emily Dickinson poems and letters[…]
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