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History says that my great, great Grandfather Pierre Derdigny, The 6th governor of Louisiana died after being thrown from a carriage. But according to the story that was handed down through our family he was clubbed to death and was made to look like an accident.
My 6x great grandfather was hung with his father-in-law and eldest son by General Cleveland because he was a loyalist. His grandson was lynched in Texas because he wouldn't grind grain into flour for Confederate sympathizers.
My mother was one of five children. The oldest child was a girl, then three boys, then my mother.
The oldest daughter was 14 when she died from "a hole in the heart", something she was born with, my mother was born right after her older sister's funeral. This was in 1919.
Can you imagine, burying one daughter in the morning, then giving birth to your only other daughter on the same day?
One of the boys died when he was 18 from a "carbunkle" on his face. Blood poisoning.....no antibiotics in those days.
10 to 1 I know what his final words were as he saw his demise coming.
On another note, what should you do when you see an elephant coming over a hill?
Swim for your life!
Get out of the way and hope it doesn't see you. I spent a year in W.Africa and saw four elephants go rogue, they killed over 300 people before the army came in and machinegunned them down, I was hiding behind an avocado tree almost four feet in diameter. One of them picked up my truck and threw it like you would throw a basketball, then killed the two men hiding underneath it. Those tusks are not merely decorative.
First husband of my grandmother died when using an axe. The blade somehow came loose and struck him in the neck?!?!. Very strange!!!
She became a widow, and then married a second husband who is my biological grandfather.
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