An Ancestor I Admire

        It’s hard to pick one.  Some are just names and I really don’t know them.  Others were in my life briefly.  Others, like my parents, have been in my life for many years.

(1)       My parents – the love and devotion they had for each other.  Dad passed away in February 2024 and Mom is still thriving.  They raised a family on a very limited income (and they never let it be known).  We were never without food, clothes or shelter.  We had a lot of good times and did a lot of things together as a family.  That is rare now a days.

(2)      

Grandma Fern – a strong, independent woman who raised nine children during the 1930’s through the 1950’s.  Money was tight and it seems like they moved a few times during the early years of their marriage.  She suffered a stroke that took away her speech, and she had to learn to write with her left hand (this happened just before I was born).

(3)       The ones I can’t name – living through the various wars (like Thomas Stead – Civil War) or moving to a new country and learning the language (Kludt, Ahrendt, and Reisner families).  Or even establishing a new nation (Patrick Porter & Thomas Pinson, to name a couple).

Great Granparents w/family
William Kludt & Susan Reisner

 

Grandparents Ed Kludt
& Bernice Swinehart

Great Grandparents
Bernice Stead & 
Raymond Reynoldson

Great Grandparents
Harry Swinehart &
Bertha Davis

Family Veterans

This is a follow-up to an earlier blog post on family veterans.

I've recently applied for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.   I'm using my ancestor Thomas Pinson.  He provided supplies.  I really wanted to use my ancestor George Belcher, who actually did serve in the Revolutionary War.

A year later, I'm now submitting a supplemental application for Patrick Porter.  Yay!  He actually served under Capt. Joseph Martin in Virginia.  He was also a juryman, commissioner of taxes, and furnished supplies.  His son, Samuel, also an ancestor, also qualifies as a soldier serving under Capt. Joseph Martin and Col. Evan Shelby.

Another ancestor that I qualify to submit a supplemental is James Alley.  He was a juror in 1779, a constable in 1780, and furnished supplies.

I am also looking at Moses Hurt (Sr), Crispin Shelton,  and Josiah Fugate.

Surnames A-Z: P names

This idea of listing surnames over the coming weeks comes from The Olive Tree Genealogy Blog.  I think this will be fun.

Some of my surnames I have already posted information on . . . others I'm still working on.

Continuing the blog list of surnames for both mine and my husband's family that I'm doing genealogical research.  Maybe we connect, maybe not.

So . . . here are the P's:

Parker - England
Parrott - Virginia
Pate -
Pawling - Pennsylvania, New York, England
Pflughaupt - Germany
Pinson - Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina
Plantagenet - England, Wales
Porter - England, Virginia, Ireland, North Carolina, Kentucky
Posey - Maryland, France