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My great-grandmother was born May, 1881 and died July 1982. Aged 101 years. I remember her talking about her father and grandfather hunting bear and deer for food. I also remember her talking about her grandfather digging gold in eastern Tennessee. Her husband, my great grandfather was a building contractor and she told me about how another contractor and his crew jumped my g-grandfather after they had lost a bid to build a jail in the town they lived him. The crew held my grandfather and their boss pulled a knife. My g-grandfather's brother picked up a mixing hoe and hit the man in the head. He died a week later. The same brother robbed a Federal train that was carrying communion wine during Prohibition. She had alot of stories. lol
my aunt was born in 1869 and lived with us in her later years.
My father was born in 1890 ( he was 55 when I was born ) so he was an everyday " history book"
His talks about the Great Depression left the biggest impression on me.
He also talked about leaving Minnesota in the 1920's and working as a lumberjack in Oregon for a few years.
All the lumberjacks were left off work one day to go to a railroad crossing as they were told President Harding was doing stops from his train and would speak awhile ( " whistle stops" )
The train roared past them with curtains drawn at full speed.
President Harding had died and the train was bringing him back
My grandmother, 1898. She was 7th day Adventist, no alcohol, no meat, no smoking, never went in the sun. She died at 92, her skin was ivory, hardly a wringle.
my aunt was born in 1869 and lived with us in her later years.
My father was born in 1890 ( he was 55 when I was born ) so he was an everyday " history book"
His talks about the Great Depression left the biggest impression on me.....
This is funny. My family never talked about stuff, my one aunt did to a small extent (mother's older sister) but overall, nothing.
What I know about my ancestors comes from people who knew them, or of them.
My 6th grade teacher was a 2nd cousin (which she told me, not my mother) and was the one that told me about being descended from a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
A bit unsure about this since when I was just a boy in grade school could have known a person older, but the oldest that I can recall was a friend's great grandfather. He was a veteran of the Apache Wars, and had served with Crook and Miles in chasing Geronimo during the 1880's. In a recent earlier thread mentioned another man that had been a boy in 1870's Arizona, these two could have been nearly the same age, uncertain.
My great grandmother lived to be a hundred, and she died when I was five, meaning she was born around 1895.
So much has happened since then, it's cool to think about. Both World Wars...colonization of Africa, decolonization of Africa.
She was African...I wonder what she thought of her grandson marrying a white person lol
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