Keeping Grandma Alive...and all the others, too (including yourself)
My father, Charles L. HEISER (1913-2001), was raised in Frederick, Maryland by his maternal grandparents, Montgomery PRICE (1859-1847) and Sally PYLES PRICE (1862-1940), both of whom were from Montgomery County, Maryland. Dad said that he remembered hearing that during the Civil War that some of his uncles fought against each other, brother against brother, one on the north side and…
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This week’s prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is: Earliest. I decided to look at the earliest newspaper clippings for each of my surname lines. One caught my eye. In 1868, my third great grandfather, Jeremiah Grant (1815-1892) was elected Probate Judge in Marlboro County, South Carolina. According to the article in the Charleston Daily News newspaper on 6…
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The prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Dear Diary. For those that don’t have actually diary entries from an ancestor, it was suggested to write a diary entry that could have been written by an ancestor. So that’s what I did. This diary entry could have been made by my grandmother, Florrie THOMAS MARTIN (1894-1979). I have several…
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Dad didn’t talk much about the war, but he did say a few things including some memories of D-Day.
The summer I was 5 or 6, and my sister Joyce was 9 or 10, our mom (Gladys Martin Heiser) asked my Uncle Tommy to bring her some tomatoes the next time he came to visit. She wanted to put some in the freezer. A few weeks later Uncle Tommy brought us about four bushels of really ripe tomatoes. My…
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Nurture was a recent prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. That prompt immediately made me think of my great-grandparents, Jeremiah Daniel “Dan” THOMAS (1858-1946) and Margaret Ann “Maggie” GRANT THOMAS (1870-1948). Here’s some stories about Dan and Maggie that show why. Brotherly love In 1886, Dan left Richland County, South Carolina for Chesterfield County, South Carolina to help his…
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