All My Ancestors

Here’s a response I got from my first cousin once removed, Kitty, about the “My Granny’s Sisters” post with the photo of my great-aunts on the horse at Knott’s Berry Farm. Kitty had the good fortune to grow up in California around the majority of my Gran’s sisters, and, of course, her mom Katie [...]

I’ve been thinking about my 4th great-grandfather–Merriman Landrum.
I’ve blogged about him before–he’s the one with the 3 sentence will. The engraving on his tombstone is longer.
Maybe more telling is the inventory of his estate. My genealogical studies tell me that you can tell a lot by what a person leaves as well as [...]

I love this picture.

I can remember seeing it at my grandmother’s house in South Dakota and not really “getting it.” What were 4 grown women doing dressed in cowboy hats on a bucking horse? (I led a fairly sheltered life, what can I say? –not to mention being a tad judgmental about what I [...]

I think most families had picnics or barbeques for July 4. My dad always said he worked outside all day and he wasn’t interested in eating out there, too. He had a point–it was usually 110 degrees and not many shade trees in the Texas panhandle.
But I was lucky enough to be in [...]