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My mother was a Daniel whose family history goes back the the Daniel brothers who were paid for their Revolutionary War service with tracts of land in Georgia. Her parents were the first of their long-entrenched Georgia families to leave Georgia and head for Texas. Needless to say, there is a record of a couple of them having owned a slave or two but none of them were big plantation owners--they were just small farmers who happened to own a couple of slaves. No, I am not ashamed of them and I see no reason to be. It was the era they lived in and was acceptable at that time.
My mother and her siblings always believed that their brother's wife administered poison to him which caused his death. (c. 1935) To me, a premeditated murder like this is a far more egregious sin.
I think a lot of us had first cousins marrying. I know I did. My own grandmother married at age 15 and it wasn't scandalous at all in those days, that I know of. People didn't always live long so they had to start early.
With my family tree, I'm neither proud nor ashamed. I, too, am related to Pres. Bush. I have an entire family who were Tories and fought against the colonies in the Rev. War (Rogers Rangers in Vermont). They weren't here in the really early days so maybe that's why they didn't have the same loyalty to the colonies. I have one who, when a woman was accused of witchcraft, he stood by and did nothing. At least the poor woman was not found guilty.
Over the weekend I learned that another ancestor actually did accuse a woman of being a witch. She got away the first time but after her husband died, these people went after her again and this time she was hanged. I can understand taking one side over another in a war. I should be able to understand the witchcraft hysteria but it's a stretch and it makes me really furious. I don't feel a sense of shame over it but I would just like to go back in time and slap that person across the face or worse!
I also have several Rev. War veterans and a veteran of the French and Indian War. I think most went because they were supposed to and they wanted to. It doesn't make me proud or ashamed although I'm glad for anyone who stood up for what they believed in. Not the witchcraft guys though, not them. THEY should have known better. They are murderers.
Not ashamed, but certainly curious. My paternal grandmother's father immigrated from Ireland, and after a few yeas ended up married to Matilda's mom in Tennessee. Then, after she was born, he got dressed to go to work and left one morning, and never returned. Not sure if he made it to work or not, but the family believed she knew why and did not appear angry and kept the secret past her death.
My maternal grandmother dumped my grandmother in the late 30's, nary a penny of support (he had money to give her) and grew up hearing snipes at him from grandma. Mom kept contact but my cousins never knew him and his family considered that grandma was part of the family, but he was on his own. If he had, and my mom had been able to go beyond the first year at USC she might not have met dad and things would have gone a whole lot differently.
Great uncle Hector was renown for licking the plate at the end of meals. When eating at other places, I have noticed people waiting to see what I do when I finish my plate- waiting to see if I have the "curse".
You can not judge anybody from the past with today's morals.
Anyways, after the "extreme unction" Catholics die clean as a blank slate.
If I had a criminal among my ancestors, I would not feel ashamed of him at all.
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