Something to doooo! Genealogy?

[digitS']

Well, I know that you are all waiting with bated breath, anticipating the family connection to Aunt Sis .

(You have to be patient with me, I'm a result of in-breeding! Just-kidding . . . maybe.)

No, Aunt Sis Lurinda was my paternal great great grandfather John's younger sister. Henry was John's son (my great grandfather). Henry and his Aunt Lurinda were fairly close to the same age. Well, both Lurinda and Henry married Claborns, brother Benjamin & sister Lizzy. So, my grandfather (Henry & Lizzy's son) knew Lurinda as Aunt Sis. !!

But, there is so much more to the story than just the names! You think? Lizzy died when her children were only 5 and 2 years of age. Henry never remarried. In fact, he died before the boys were grown. Henry's Aunt Sis raised those 2 boys.

Lurinda's husband Benjamin, died a year before Henry's death. I'd guess that their daughter Sarah (an only child) must have been of help raising the 2 boys. By the way, Aunt Sis lived to be 97 years old. I nearly met her (missed her by || this much! )

If I was interested in the genealogical record, would I just follow Henry's family? What about Lizzy & Benjamin's family? And, might I have completely missed the role Aunt Sis played?

Want to have some "fun?" Search for a name like Claborn, Cliborn, Cleborne, Cliburn, Clayburn, Clayborn, Clayborne, Claiborne, Claibourne . . . . . etc. etc. etc.!

I can tell you that like Sylvia's grandfather, Benjamin was a Civil War veteran. One was Union, one was Confederate. If that was all we know about these 2 men, what difference does it make? Now since Aunt Sis and Sylvia's grandfather were both born in Illinois, if they had met and married, Aunt Sis would never have been Aunt Sis! And, I wouldn't have . . . uh, umm . . .

Steve

 

[ninnymary]

Jackb, do you think Steve got a headachne? He was pretty winded there. lol

Mary

 

[thistlebloom]

Jackb, do you think Steve got a headachne? He was pretty winded there. lol

Mary

Winded or windy?

 

[NwMtGardener]

Steve = winded
Marshall = windy (too many beannnnnnnns)

 

[ninnymary]

NwMtGardener, I think you got it right!

Where are they by the way? You would think their ears would be burning. lol

Mary

 

[jackb]

Jackb, do you think Steve got a headachne? He was pretty winded there. lol

Mary

Mary, Happy New Year by the way1 Gee, I hope Steve does not just quit at the Civil War. I would like him to work through WWI and WW2 right up to the day before yesterday. Busy hands are happy hands.....
jackb

 

[digitS']

Wait, a minute!

I thought I was suppose to be going backwards in time. So, this is how you maintain that time-traveling perspective, Jack . . .

I recently saw a picture of Sylvia's son Elmer at about 20 years of age. Elmer was my Great Uncle and my pen-pal when I was a kid! I guess I started writing to him when I was about 6 years old and after he stopped to visit us on his way back to Edmonton. I know that these letters continued until I was in high school .

We began to go our separate ways then and Uncle Elmer didn't live much longer. It is too bad that I never saw him but that once and he spent his final years living with his daughter in sunny California. He sent me a picture with him sitting under a tree and eating a peach .

None of my ancestors were in WWI. They were either too old with lots of kids - or one of those kids. Both of my parents were born during that war.

WW 2 was a mess for my family! Not in the way that Bobm describes but, so many of the brothers and brothers-in-law were in that war. I have related elsewhere on TEG how very much opposed to that Sylvia's daughter, my grandmother was! Sylvia had passed away by then.

I am wondering if my Mormon cousin is ignoring me about, perhaps, locating our grandmother's birthplace. You see, that family was Church of the Brethren. Also! That Missouri county was kind of in the middle of the "Mormon War" about 50 years before my family got to that corner of the country. The Mormons packed up and moved - there was even bloodshed! The pacifist folks that moved in later didn't have anything to do with that but I'm not sure what a 2nd generation Mormon thinks are about them living in Daviess County Missouri. . . and, about Sylvia being the orphaned daughter of a Church of the Brethren pastor.

My family has copies of, not a sermon, but a speech that fella gave. (I'm going back to the Civil War again . . .) Anyway, he was speaking before, I believe it was the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. His thesis was that any government subsidies for a transcontinental railroad should be put on hold. Yeah, he wanted those resources to go for rail lines that tied North & South together. This speech was given just a year or 2 after that war.

Isn't it odd that just about as soon as one of those railroads was built to the Pacific: his daughter was on it!

One of my Mormon uncles claimed that Sylvia and her family came out West in a covered wagon. That used to cause me to look away and smile . I guess I could have asked, "You mean they followed along side that railroad in a wagon all the way out here?!" And so, family history is written . . .

Steve

 

[jackb]

Fascinating, utterly fascinating, don't you agree Marshall?

 

[ninnymary]

I think Marshall is buried in his beans.

Mary

 

[digitS']

Oh yes, we had milk cows, JackB. There were never more than 3 and Grandma told Mom never to learn how to milk them. That was okay; a person needs standards. Maybe I should say, boundaries.

That sure brings us up to the mid-20th century. Lots of important things in these people's lives left out. Some a matter of official record but I was just reading how even a census account of an important family in the 19th century was screwed up because the surname was written as the worker heard it. That problem made the newspapers in 1860, ha! Gov'ment never gets anything right!

A Big "Thing" with Aunt Sis was that Dad's oldest brother told me she was a "full-blooded" Indian. Despite being officially born in Illinois, she lived almost her entire life on what had been the Choctaw nation. Still, she was supposed to be Cherokee. Dad's mom said that Grandpa was Indian "on both sides."

I haven't figured it out. And, I never will. Even with the "immediate" relatives. They were like fallen leaves, long before any sort of wind a 1st or 7th grandson could stir up today.


Steve