Sharing Stories and Wisdom from Generation to Generation
Today is National Corn on the Cob Day. Corn on the cob (or ‘the bone’ as a late family member used to say) is one of the delights of summer, and eating it brings back precious memories for me. Learning to Shuck Corn My grandma, Florrie THOMAS MARTIN (1894-1979) taught me how to shuck corn. There were no plastic bags…
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A distant MARTIN cousin, G., asked one day if I had information about a mutual cousin she was researching. That inquiry led us both down several rabbit trails that answered some questions and brought up more. I’ll blog about that another day. On one of the rabbit trails, I found a clump of young deaths in one family. Most of…
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A recent prompt for 52 Ancestor in 52 Weeks was Favorite Photo. I have a lot of favorite photos, but below is my current most favorite one. Last weekend, my second cousin, T., sent me a photo via Messenger and asked if that was my dad in the photo. YES! My dad is in the photo and so is his…
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Favorite Find is this week’s prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. I’ve had these vintage photo packs for years. They belonged to my parents, Charles L. HEISER (1913-2001) and Gladys MARTIN HEISER (1921-1999). I’d flipped through them enough to know the photos were from a 1951 trip to Florida. The photo packs went into the ‘later’ pile after that….
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A few months ago, I completed the daunting task of prepping my house for sale, selling it, and moving to a rental. Often over the 4+ years it took to get this done, I’ve thought about when my mom, her four siblings, and their parents left South Carolina for Winchester, Virginia. My grandfather, Joel Daniel MARTIN (1886-1955) was a farmer…
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Several weeks ago Favorite Photo was a prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Here’s one of my favorite photos. I’m actually showing two photos, and you’ll see why below. A little background Theodosia Marie “Dosia” THOMAS MARTIN (1893-1954) was my first cousin, twice removed. Her father, James Renatus “Renn” THOMAS (1865-1949) was the only brother of my great-grandfather, Jeremiah…
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