Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night again –
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) We all find “fun” or “different” information about ourselves, our relatives and ancestors in our genealogy and family history pursuits. What are five “fun” or “different” facts in your life or your ancestors lives?
Do you have a tree going back to colonial times filled with mostly farmers? If so, finding ‘fun facts’ in your tree may prove challenging. I know I found this topic challenging with my tree.
One fact that may or may not be unique to my tree is the fact that of my eight great great grandfathers, seven served for the union. My post, Grand Army Members, details their service records.
Having seven great great grandfathers serving for the union might not be unique, but having two great grandfather’s who were imprisoned in Andersonville likely is unique. Not only were Washington Marion Crawford and Richmond Fisk Hammond in Andersonville prison but their children, Judson Foster Crawford and Josie Winifred Hammond married each other.
While finding someone in one’s tree who participated in political protest in the 1960s is likely not unusual, I think having an ancestor protest a law in the 1930s is unusual. My grandfather, Edward Osmund Briles was arrested several weeks in a row for opening his movie theater on a Sunday. While his protests did not get the law changed at the time, those laws are no longer in existance.
Like most of my ancestors who were farmers, my great grandfather, Hiram M. Currey attempted farming. In 1908, Hiram Currey purchased a wagon to move his family from Leavenworth (KS) to Rooks County, Kansas where he farmed. By October, 1913, the family was living in Olathe, Kansas where Hiram Currey was a teamster. Prior to the move west, Hiram Currey had an unusual career. He was a magneic healer. (See Fake or Real post)
On a more personal level, I doubt that most readers of this blog can claim to have graduated one day and been married the next day. Crazily, my husband and I planned such a wedding. We both graduated from Kansas State Teachers College on the evening of May 17th and were married the next afternoon.
Wow! Opening his theater on Sunday! That reminds me of the New jersey blue laws, which I think are still on the books. I remember going to stores like Two Guys on Sunday when whole areas were cordoned off from shoppers. A Sunday purchase had to be a necessity like clothing or food. Toys couldn’t be bought on Sunday!
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