The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

not unheard of for women to go through twenty or more pregnancies... My Great Grandma had nine that lived and two that didnt make it so eleven pregnancies. Great grandma was fourteen when she married a Widower who was in his early thirties and had two children... age twelve and eleven. His first wife committed suicide. She was his cousin too.

That was the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s. When medical knowledge was further along than in the Colonial times.

deb

Somehow this is missed when people talk about the "good old days".

Poor women!

 

[perchie.girl]

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Yep

Just the basic vaccines and antibiotics we have now would have saved hundreds of thousands. And the basic knowledge of cleanliness the whys and simple techniques. Food safety.... alone was a big "aha" moment. Pasteurization alone saved millions.

The good old days had as many warts as today... just in different places

deb

 

[Latestarter]

OK Deb, my eyes aren't as good as they once were, but what the heck is that avatar? It looks like some kind of alien resurrection or somesuch... Looks like a bunch of buck deer... at night...

 

[perchie.girl]

OK Deb, my eyes aren't as good as they once were, but what the heck is that avatar? It looks like some kind of alien resurrection or somesuch... Looks like a bunch of buck deer... at night...

LOL... someone so aptly named it a "Stag Party"

Its a GIF of a feed station I believe. I was drawn by that "Alien" quality....

deb

 

[FridayYet]

LOL, I couldn't figure it out at first, either. But I really like the alienness of it.

 

[Alaskan]

We don't have one... probably the only reason he didn't.... to be fair, the cemetary is fenced, but this one guy wouldn't fit in the existing area, so they just stuck him outside of the fence... technically I don't own the cemetary, but I own the land all the way around it, and I own the land that HE is on because he is outside of the main plot. From what I have been able to tell, there are 15 people in there, several kids, but they don't all have stones so I don't know exactly.

I do find it interesting how in some cemeteries there are so many people that were burried without stones. And that poor outlier guy! Maybe he needs his own fence

Beer can,

In the 16 hundreds my ancestors were in Massachusetts. Middlessex county, Norfolk county, Hampden County, Essex County, Plymouth County, Bristol County and Suffolk County. And a few were also in Connecticut in Wyndham County. Yeah, clearly, a BUNCH of my ancestors showed up in the 16 hundreds. Mostly British.

A few were killed by Indians, and later in the 17 hundreds one was in the very last indian battle in New England. His dad had been shot and killed by an indentured servant. The dad was George Pfau, a German. He had a married couple from the Neatherlands as his indentured servants. The man got drunk and was chasing after his own wife with a gun. George Pfau stepped out of his house and told the indentured servant that he wasn't allowed to treat his wife that way. The indentured servant shot George in the gut (in front of George's wife and kids right there on the front stoop of the house). And it took hours for George to die. The indentured servant was tried and hanged for murder, I have no idea what happened to his wife.

George's eldest son got the large and prosperous farmstead and sold off the younger kids as apprentices. I am descended from one of the younger kids, Adam. Adam was sold off to a shoe maker, and he hated it. An older brother (not the eldest), worked hard and saved up, and after a few years had enough money to buy Adam his freedom. Then the two went further into the "wilds" to settle and have farmsteads... And then the indian battle.

Fun stuff.

One of my great, great etc. grandfathers had as his second wife (but I am descended from the first wife) a woman from the famous Salem witch trials. She was accused of being a witch, but because she was pregnant they didn't kill her, but instead sent her to the jail in Boston. She was in jail with her nursing toddler, and then birthed in jail and shortly after the birth the people of Salem regained their senses and had her released from prison and returned to Salem and they gave her and her children an "I am so sorry" payment.

Crazy fun all the old history stuff.

It wasn't until the 17 hundreds that a few of my ancestors got into New York state, so no cool New Amsterdam stories from me. Very awesome Beer can!

 

[room onthebroom]

I do find it interesting how in some cemeteries there are so many people that were burried without stones. And that poor outlier guy! Maybe he needs his own fence

Beer can,

In the 16 hundreds my ancestors were in Massachusetts. Middlessex county, Norfolk county, Hampden County, Essex County, Plymouth County, Bristol County and Suffolk County. And a few were also in Connecticut in Wyndham County. Yeah, clearly, a BUNCH of my ancestors showed up in the 16 hundreds. Mostly British.

A few were killed by Indians, and later in the 17 hundreds one was in the very last indian battle in New England. His dad had been shot and killed by an indentured servant. The dad was George Pfau, a German. He had a married couple from the Neatherlands as his indentured servants. The man got drunk and was chasing after his own wife with a gun. George Pfau stepped out of his house and told the indentured servant that he wasn't allowed to treat his wife that way. The indentured servant shot George in the gut (in front of George's wife and kids right there on the front stoop of the house). And it took hours for George to die. The indentured servant was tried and hanged for murder, I have no idea what happened to his wife.

George's eldest son got the large and prosperous farmstead and sold off the younger kids as apprentices. I am descended from one of the younger kids, Adam. Adam was sold off to a shoe maker, and he hated it. An older brother (not the eldest), worked hard and saved up, and after a few years had enough money to buy Adam his freedom. Then the two went further into the "wilds" to settle and have farmsteads... And then the indian battle.

Fun stuff.

One of my great, great etc. grandfathers had as his second wife (but I am descended from the first wife) a woman from the famous Salem witch trials. She was accused of being a witch, but because she was pregnant they didn't kill her, but instead sent her to the jail in Boston. She was in jail with her nursing toddler, and then birthed in jail and shortly after the birth the people of Salem regained their senses and had her released from prison and returned to Salem and they gave her and her children an "I am so sorry" payment.

Crazy fun all the old history stuff.

It wasn't until the 17 hundreds that a few of my ancestors got into New York state, so no cool New Amsterdam stories from me. Very awesome Beer can!

How do you guys know so much about your family history? I've recently gotten into the ancestry.com site, but its basic birth, death, marriage stuff.

 

[Kusanar]

Quote: My great grandma had 13 surviving kids, who knows how many didn't make it... and her husband wasn't around all the time to keep her pregnant constantly either, she probably had breaks (he had a tendancy to say he was taking the horse into town to buy supplies, and 2 weeks later write her and say he was in Illinois and he would be back sometime...)

Quote: This is a family cemetery, the reason the outlier guy is outside is that he was the last of that branch of the family and he wanted to be buried with them. So, someone made arangements with the lady that I bought the place from to put him outside the fence since the inside was completely full. Before I take the horses there, I will re-fence the whole cemetery, the little 3 foot chain link fence around it now would just make my horses laugh... and as old as some of those graves are, I don't know if they could take the weight of a horse standing on them if one hopped the fence....

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ok so may shoot myself over this I bought this awful incubator called a janoel12 which I understand is not great
so I did order a 2362E - Electronic Thermostat Hova-Bator it is not here yet
the eggs in it are from black sex-link and easter eggers nad a couple pbr eggs
dad is f-1 olive egger who's mom is a blue ? maran dad is a easter egger
I have an email off to his breeder be be more certain of that

 

[perchie.girl]

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mom has been doing geneology since before computer days.... the hard way... looking at microfilm and wandering through the LDS library. Talking to family members too getting photostatic copies of records from them and taking down stories. She was afraid of computers till one day I bought her a Copy of Family Tree Maker... Back then it was on floppy disks and you had to enter all your own data.... Pre internet days. She had two file cabinets of info to process and demanded that dad Build her a computer.... LOL

She even tracked down her dads sirname to England. and a specific town Calledup the phone book and looked up some phone numbers and addresses. she wrote each and every one asking if we were related. ONe answered found out the name Cappleman in the US was Coppleman in Wales... or fisherman. Story was that great great great great anscestor stowed away aboard a ship to come to the US. Probably early 1800s When he reached the US he worked his way ship board and wound up in Chicago.

There he setup a livery stable and a saloon.... Married and had kids. The family story goes that his wife was gossiped about because she had married a Saloon keeper... They said that when she went to church her skirts were saying Whisky Whisky Whisky as she walked by.

Have no clue if its true but its a great story any way.

She tracked my dads family to Florida where apparently my Grandma was an old maid who married my grandpa at the age of 17 she was a full head taller than him.... Grandma was six foot Grandpa was about five seven.... As far as she has found out the Dixon family in Florida was pretty well to do.

deb