Did you ever know any of your great grandparents?
Zipperzap's post about his great grandmother Ethel made me think about mine. I remember the only great grandparent I met was my great grandmother on my mother's side of the family. We called her "Little Grandma" because she was so petite. She was about 104yo when she died in about 1948. I was about 4yo and remember her funeral.
Do you remember any of yours?
Do you remember any of yours?
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I remember one. It was fun playing American History Challenge with her. It seemed that almost every question that came up, she had a story to tell about it. Don 0 -
I met my Great Grand parents only once, they were Amish and even at my ripe old age of six I was fascinated by their lack of electricity and indoor plumbing. 0 -
all dead long before my time 0 -
I know I was old enough to go to some of their funerals but not old enough to appreciate who they were at the time. 0 -
No all gone before I was born.
It doesn't look like I will see
any of my great grandchildren.0 -
quote:Originally posted by ecyrbrc
No all gone before I was born.
It doesn't look like I will see
any of my great grandchildren.
Should have started earlier. I am only 47 and have 5 grandkids with 2 more due this year. Don0 -
Hell no... even my mom died two years before I was born!!! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by tobefree
Hell no... even my mom died two years before I was born!!!
Can you say DNA? I thought so. Don0 -
quote:Originally posted by tobefree
Hell no... even my mom died two years before I was born!!!
I get it, Mom was a Petri and Dad was a Pipet.
A arranged marriage.0 -
My Great Grand Parents on my mothers mothers side were immigrants from Croatia.
of all my great grandparents, I only met that Great grandmother and have memmories of her from when I was a child.
She died when I was in my thirties and never learned to speak English.
Pretty cool Lady if you want my opinion.0 -
quote:Originally posted by MVP
My Great Grand Parents on my mothers mothers side were immigrants from Croatia.
of all my great grandparents, I only met that Great grandmother and have memmories of her from when I was a child.
She died when I was in my thirties and never learned to speak English.
Pretty cool Lady if you want my opinion.
Did she teach you engraving?0 -
quote:Originally posted by MVP
if you want my opinion.
Everdamn day. Don0 -
No. She taught me stuff like how to spit and use the outhouse behind her house[:D] 0 -
one great grandmother still alive...she just turned 104 in March. 0 -
I was 10 when my Great Papa died. He was a hoot. Drove his 57' Chevy like a wild man. My Great Grandma lasted till she was 101. I use to play pranks on my Great Papa and fill his beer up with water when I would go get Dad and him a refill. 0 -
I have had the privilege to know 3 of my grandparents, all have left a lasting memory to me. The ones that I knew lived to the ripe old age of 95,92, and 89.
My great grandfather was 95 when he died last year in June, a few months after his son, my grandfather died. He was the life of a party at his age, and could really get away with saying anything to anyone. [:D] One thing he said after I got engaged, was make sure you get married quick, I want to be there. He didn't make it. [:(] He lived on his own until January of last year when he fell and broke his hip. He drank Mt. Dew and watched The Young and the Restless inches from the TV since he couldn't see any more. Its amazing he lived as long as he did, he smoked into his 70's as everyone his age did. He would walk done to the river almost everyday with his dog, it was about a 1/2 mile. He had a bull and heifers till he was about 93 or so.
His wife, who lived to 89 was always a chirp old gal. It really was a surprise when she died, because she was in good health. I was 15 or 16 when she died.
My other grandmother that I knew was an amazing women. She lived on her own until she was 90, then had problems after that. She was a teacher, was incredibly smart and her brain was still there till the day she died. When I was little, before starting school, I would go with my dad everyday to feed the steers that were at her place. She would make the best brownies in the whole world then put them in the freezer when they were still soft. Man I still miss those brownies 20 years later. I would have been 11 or 12 when she died. She died on an unusual day, it was a sept 21st. Its the day that two twin boys where born of my grandpas, one of them died two days later, the other a year almost to the day. My grandpa took it pretty hard seeing the two graves next two each other.0 -
I got to see my great grandmother on my mother's side often and until I was about 19. When she broke up her household, my mom bought her curved glass, bevel edged mirror, carved secretary desk for $5.00. No one else in the family wanted the old thing. That was in 1958 and we hauled it home in a 57 Chevy hard top. I've still got the secretary, I wish I had the Chevy.
I have two great grandfathers buried less than 3 miles from where I now live. They were both sides of my dad's parents. And they were both in the civil war. My paternal grandmother was on the Oklahoma land rush and filed a claim. However her first husband died and she returned to Kansas. She lived until the early 60s.0 -
All of my grandparents had died before I was born. 0 -
Was lucky to spend time with my Great Grandma (Grandpa's mom) and my Great Grandpa (grandma's dad). We used to spend Christmas and other holidays with G-Grandma. She used to tell stories about walking along the river going to school. She used to have indian stone hatchets/tamohawks as door stops. She died when I was in 8th grade.
G-Grandpa would take me fishing on Blue River (Indiana) in his 1968 Dodge Dart. He drove like a maniac getting there but he knew all the good fishing holes. He died when I was a freshman in high school.0 -
My Grandmother is stil alive at the nice age of 68 years of age. Don't get to see her as much as I'd like(she lives in Sacramento, I'm in Louisiana). Never met any of the others. 0 -
Just met the one a few times. He still had his cavalry saddle out in the barn. I guess that saddle was about fifty years old at the time. I said I thought it looked like it would hurt to ride that thing. He said he hoped I'd never know how much it hurt. 0 -
I knew my ggp on both sides...
mom's mom: ray and goldie...goldie lived to 96
mom's dad: never knew his parents or him. granddad howard died one year before i was born.
dad's mom: frames...knew them both
dad's dad: knew ggm and step ggd...never knew anyone beyond them.
interesting tidbits...mom's dad was a decendant of jesse james
dad's dad was only the third generation of our
family. great great granddad was an orphan.
mom's grand dad was half cherokee0 -
Yeah. I was real close to my Great-Grandad on Dad's side. Great-Grandma died long before I was born. He was 89 when he died. I was 16. We spent many great days together when I was growing up. Almost every day for a few hours, when I wasn't in school. Grandad was a rough old cob and he expected me to work hard on the farm, but he taught me lessons that would not have been learned anywhere else. He is greatly missed.
I knew my Great-Grandad and Great-Grandma, on Mom's side also. He was older and died when I was 12. We never hung out like Grandad and I, but he was a good man, a great hunter and a true "woods-runner". He was 94 when he passed. His son, my PaPA, was the greatest man I will ever have the pleasure of knowing. They are both sorely missed.0 -
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
I use to play pranks on my Great Papa and fill his beer up with water when I would go get Dad and him a refill.that's funny [:D]0 -
I remember my great grandmother who was the mother of grandpa, and my great grandfather who was grandmas dad. Both were on my Dads side of family. Great Grandma Mae was quite a baker, and everytime we visited she always had fresh baked cookies for us. My Great Grandpa C.L. was a honery man who had some of the most prime farm ground in central Illinois. He loved to fish and outlived 4 wives. His farm is still in the family. I was pretty young when they passed, but both lived to almost 100 years. 0 -
I had the pleasure of knowing a Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother. My Great Grandfather was a fine man that I remember sitting with at family reunions and talking about everything from baseball to farming. He passed on when I was 6 or so.
My Great Grandmother lived to be almost 100 and was a very interesting person. We all called her the Tweety Bird Grandma, because she looked just like the cartoon character that owned Tweety Bird.
My Great Grandfather had passed on long before I was born. He was a Circuit Judge in South Dakota. He carried an H&R Breaktop .32 revolver on the bench with him. My Great Grandmother kept that loaded revolver under her pillow until she retired and moved in with my Grandparents. I still have that gun. It may not be of much value, but it is priceless to me.0 -
I knew both. Ethel Maye McCoy, Dad's paternal grandmother, b. 1872 and my mother's
paternal grandmother, Florence Louise Tomlinson (GG) b. 1876. Both lived well into their
nineties. Both were sharp and retained crisp memories - both delightful to talk with.
They were absolutely opposites in their upbringing. GG was from Philadelphia, Main Line
monied family, born during the 100th Centennial celebration and Fair in Fairmont Park,
Philadelphia - visited the Chicago's World Fair in 1892/93 and the St. Louis World's Fair
of 1902/03. Ethel was born on the prairie and grew up a cowgirl - could shoot and rope
with the best of her brothers.
Both instilled in me a great love of family and history.
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I spent 10 years of my life knowing my great grandma and great grandpa, and have nice memories of Christmas with them.
I'm also very fortunate to have 3 of my 4 grandparents living today. In fact I had dinner this evening with the 3 of them. I try to spend as much time possible with them.
One of my grandfathers is 84 and a WWII POW, I posted some photos and his war story on here a good while back, some of you may recall.0 -
Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk to them ... and RECORD EVERYTHING!
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Who you trying to kid, Zip? You are the great grand pa. [:D] 0
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