The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

choreso and eggs for breakfast good morning.... sippin my quad espresso.

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

adding to my taco's tonight and my last 2 jalapeno

 

[1muttsfan]

SCG, I also love the wind swirling around. And the way the leaves look puffy.

Congratulations to your daughter, Bruce.

I also have relations buried in the Massachusetts area - my grandmother was a very proud member of the Colonial Dames of the 17th Century (as I could be if I was not so much otherwise occupied). I know some were shopkeepers. Her more recent relations ended up in Washtenaw County.

 

[microchick]

Is it Friday yet?

Monday isn't all that and a bag of chips. Woke up to the internet not wanting to work right again. Tired of troubleshooting with Hughes so DH is doing the job himself with me trying to stay out of the way.

Summer is over. Time to take the AC out of the window. We lit our first fire yesterday morning and then again this morning. Felt good...until the temp skyrocketed to 70 then we were opening windows and doors. Hate this time of the year and also love this time of the year. Wake up, put on long pants by noon putting on bermuda shorts.

 

[Alaskan]

Wilder Joy

Great name!!!

more recent relations ended up in Washtenaw County.

That is a fun name too! No relatives buried in Putney, huh?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I should somewhere but I'm not finding it on my computer. Maybe lost. Nope, found them.
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Rachel's is intact

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Approach to the cemetery
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after walking up Joy Road
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That would be my car down the road

Captain Amos was born in Rehoboth MA in 1761, died in Putney in 1837. Rachel was born in Dunstable MA and died in Putney in 1822. Found the reference to Grandfathers grandmother, yes born in Delaware, OH in 1818, same year her father Francis Fletcher Joy died. Francis' older brother Captain Wilder Joy also went to Delaware, OH. He had a daughter named Lucy who's daughter Anna my mother knew and referred to as "Cousin Anna". I don't have a birth date but given Lucy married in 1863, I would guess Anna would have been in her 60's when my mother was born in 1928.

looks doable if it's the one break and the headstone that's planted fits on the broken off part.

It's so fascinating that you guys can do this stuff. My family is immigrants, and I can only trace it back to my grandmother, who came over and died here after the rest of the family came over. I did find the 1905 Lithuanian/Polish Ellis Island landing document for one of my dad's uncles.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Need get in gear follow Britton clan better

 

[Alaskan]

looks doable if it's the one break and the headstone that's planted fits on the broken off part.

It's so fascinating that you guys can do this stuff. My family is immigrants, and I can only trace it back to my grandmother, who came over and died here after the rest of the family came over. I did find the 1905 Lithuanian/Polish Ellis Island landing document for one of my dad's uncles.

Lithuania doesn't have good records as far as I can tell. I have one set of great grandparents that were from Lithuania. The only reason we know as much about them as we do... is because my great grandmother was so old when she died... so we talked to her about her family. Also, she kept some of the letters that her parents from Lithuania had sent her. That was nice... because then we could find the exact house they were from (sort-of... it was burnt down when the Russians took over)

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I couldn't read them anyway. I know a few key words and phrases and my last name

 

[1muttsfan]

That is a fun name too! No relatives buried in Putney, huh?

One of the many, many things that are on my list of things to do once I am retired and have time is to pull out all of my grandparents genealogy work and go through it. They spent hundreds of hours tracing family members back, and did tons of research at places like the state library's genealogy collection. They did all this before the advent of computers, I can only imagine what my grandmother could have done with the databases that are now available.