Keeping Grandma Alive Archives - Nancy H. Vest, Writer

Jeremiah Grant: Preacher, Probate Judge, and Radical Republican

This week’s prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is: Earliest. I decided to look at the earliest newspaper clippings…
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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…
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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)…
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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,…
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Love is this week’s theme for 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks. I wrote about the courtship of my maternal grandparents,…
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