Family

Here is a picture of my Grandma & her parents. She was the youngest of 10.

I have been doing family history, or, at least, trying to. I have met a extremely distant cousin who has made that her life's work. There is so much work already done for me through them. They have us traced back all the way to 1611. There is some names & places that go back further but there is nothing to prove it.

Someone in the family still has a book that is from the early 1600's that belong to my one great... grandpas that can be proven. It was a book he brought to America in the 1600's.

Another Great... Grandpa fought in the Revelutionary War & is one of the earliest settlers in the area where my Grandmother grew up. Some one in the family still has a bell that he bought on his way back from a battle. The story goes he was walking home & heard a bell & wondered where it was coming from. He & his fellow solider walked to find it & came to an ox in the field with the bell on. They went up to the farmers cabin & asked to buy it. The man said they can buy it for a dollar per mile from the battle field, since he lived 4 miles from the field, the bell was $4. My Great... Grandfather had 2 dollars & the other solider had 2 dollars. So the farmer suggested to draw straws to see who would win the bell & my Great... Grandfather won.

They bring, both the book & the bell to the family reunions & I can't wait til next year so I can see them.