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What I Would Like to Do Over

Alison B. Pack

Wickedness never was happiness. I would not have swiped that tantalizing little tub of Tiddlywinks from the ironmonger's shop of the generous Cunningham family in Golspie. I never let on to anybody and it never occurred to me to brave a return of same. To assuage my guilt I eventually tried...

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I Am Grateful

Alison B. Pack

I am so grateful for a good, faithful and kind husband, and five children to match. If someone had asked me as a young adult how I would envisage my life in forty years' time, it would have been much different from the one I have. At that time I simply...

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I Believe

Alison B. Pack

I believe--I know--we are all God's children; that he loves us deeply and wants us to come back to live with Him. I believe--I know--that Christ, His Son, made this possible for us to accomplish. "All" that is required of us is to hone our lives in such a way that...

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A Few Lessons Learned from my Elders

Alison B. Pack

A strong, recurring theme in the life-histories of both my father and my mother is, thankfully, SACRIFICIAL LOVE. What a warmth comes to my soul as I read my dad describe his father as "the kindest man I ever knew." James Smith Turner the Elder lived in a densely-inhabited Glasgow sandstone...

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THE FIRST ELMER FAMILY CAR

Mary E. V. Hill

Our family car is famous! Did you know that the picture of a family in an old model car in the Boy Scouts of America Genealogy merit badge booklet is a picture of our family? The picture was taken in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey in about 1912. I can date...

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Not All Modern Hotels Have Modern Architecture Or Amenities

Dick Pellek

On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Not All Modern Hotels Have Modern Architecture And Amenities One of the minor issues that travelers encounter when they move from city to city and hotel room to hotel room is that blissful period...

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Ch 7 - Richard Colin Fifield AKA Colin My Input

Colin Fifield

Colin’s Input Dad left out quite a chunk of information here so I have inserted this to help bridge the gap. Anything I have put in is all in Italics. After Dad left the army I’m not sure when exactly, but Dad & Mum went to live in Dover and I...

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Ch. 6 - Richard Colin Fifield AKA Colin Getting Married To Joyce 13 June 1953

Colin Fifield

It was in the town of Dover that I met Joyce. Once I started courting, the restrictions started getting hard, even in my cushy job at the Sergeants mess and found myself put on a charge quite often, having to be confined to barracks, 7 to 14 days at a time....

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Ch. 5 - Richard Coln Fifield AKA Colin - Into My Teen Years

Colin Fifield

For the trip to Brentford we would stop off at the workingmen’s cafe for toast and dripping and pint pot of steaming hot tea. Then we would watch the auctioneer, once the selling started. We would come away most times with a different rig or horse. One time we got a...

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Ch.4 - Ken, Joan and growing up

Colin Fifield

When I arrived at Waterloo Station, couldn’t find mum so caught the train to Twick. ( Twickenham ) Had to wait outside the house, popped in to see Ada. Mum turned up a couple of hours later. Dad was with her too. He had come on leave. I didn’t get told...

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Ch. 3 - Richard Colin Fifield AKA Colin The Rhondda Valley - Wales

Colin Fifield

The Rhondda Valley - Wales We were at the house and in bed soon. The odd thing was that us two kids had to sleep together in a double bed. I’d never had to do that before, I’d always had my own bed, and well it was different. We had...

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Ch. 2 - Richard Colin Fifield AKA Colin "War Years"

Colin Fifield

Richard’s War Years Getting to know a little bit more about what war was all about, seeing the bombing over towards Central London, air raid sirens going. The next-door neighbour had an air raid shelter in the back garden, we would go there and spend most of the night, mum and...

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Chapter 1 : Richard Colin Fifield AKA Colin

Colin Fifield

Dad’s Journal. As I think back to my infant days, I remember the deep blue colour of the front window curtains that hung in our council house in Twining Avenue, Twickenham, and ever since that time blue has been a favourite colour for me. Especially the blues we get in the...

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Anna Bateman Her Story

Caldwell County Historical Society

Anna Bateman Her Story Anna Bateman was born to parents George (b.1832[Pa. 1908_) and Josephine Delilah (Haywood) (b.1843-Indiana-d.1904) Bateman in Missouri in 1869. In the census of 1870 she is with her parents in New York Twsp. Caldwell Co. Missouri. Father is listed as farmer. But...

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Jo Eastwood - Pets

Southern Cross Care - Life Story Circles

Jo recalls the pets she had growing up

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Richard Colin Fifield

Colin Fifield

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The Longest Day of John Steele

Dick Pellek

The Longest Day of John Steele (Revised and Edited) Private John M. Steele (1912–1969) was the American paratrooper made famous in the movie, The Longest Day. He literally parachuted onto the roof of a church in Sainte-Mère-Église, the first village in Normandy liberated by the Americans on D-Day, June 6, 1944....

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MRS LOUISE “LOUIE” CATHERINE BARKLEY ACHENBACH

Caldwell County Historical Society

MRS LOUISE “LOUIE” CATHERINE BARKLEY ACHENBACH By Karen Wilcox Mrs. Louie Achenbach oldest and best known pioneer woman passed away at her home in Polo Wednesday afternoon November 22, 1933. We would like to take you on a journey back in time to 1840. We are in Orangeville, Columbia...

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FRANK L. PARKER, I.

Caldwell County Historical Society

FRANK L. PARKER, I. by Willie Parker Frank and Fred Parker were identical twins, born November 14, 1866, in Salem, Iowa. Their parents were Thomas and Nancy Wilmeth Parker. Frank married Flora Tospen November 13, 1887. Marriage records in Kingston show he was not 21 and had to...

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HENRY TOSPEN

Caldwell County Historical Society

HENRY TOSPEN By Judy Housh Henry Tospon was born in 1838 in Brunswick, Germany. His wife, Elizabeth Whelaman, was born in 1843 in Hanover, Germany. The family left Germany and moved to England and then onto Scotland before coming to the United States to locate in Somerset, Pennsylvania. ...

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