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Charles Edgar Streeter Sara Frances (Clare) Streeter Their Story        Charles Edgar Streeter was born on October  2 nd  1846 in Courtland, New York to parents Horace Ballard Streeter and Cornelia L. (Gillette) Streeter. He remained living in New York with his parents and siblings until the family moved to...

Judson Horace Streeter Maria Frances (Cox) Streeter Their story        Judson Streeter was born in Courtland Co. New Yor k, on March 15, 1844.  He was the oldest child of Horace and Cornelia.  He came to Missouri in 1855 with his parents. In the 1860 census he was at this...

The Streeter Family Their Stories   Horace Ballard Streeter was born April 2,  1819 in Genoa, Cayuga County, New York.  He was the son of Josiah Streeter (b. 1792- Washington Co. N.Y -d.1879) and Ruby (Stebbins) Streeter (b.1797- Mass.-d1828).  Horace was next to the oldest of seven children. Horace and Cornelia...

Helen Britt(Mrs. H.G. Britt Her Story       Helen Britt was born in New York in 1836. She was married to Henry G. Britt also born in New York, in 1835.  Not much known about marriage or family.       In the census of 1860 Helen and Henry G. were l iving...

Mrs. Mary”Mollie”Brosius Her Story        Mary “Mollie” (Price) Brosius was born in 1861 near Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee to John Livingston Price (Oct. 4, 1927-Feb.23, 1894) and Lucretia Elizabeth Battoe(Dec. 4,1839-1929).  She was the 2 nd  child of nine children born to the parents.  Through the 1880 census she resided with...

Noble Brelsford Sarah C. (Hogue/Hague) Brelsford Their Story        Noble Brelsford was born to parents Jefferson Brelsford(1812-1882) and Eliza(Barton) Brelsford (1814-1898) in Coshocton,Ohio. His date of birth is October 26,1834.  In census of 1850 he liv ing with parents and Milton-13,Emilina-11,Webster-7 and Anne-1 in Franklin, Coshocton, Ohio.      On May...

Levi and Sarah Beeson Their Story        Levi Beeson was born in Ohio 1837-38, unable to determine names of parents.  Sarah J. (???) Beeson  was also born in Ohio, in 1845.  In census of 1880 she listed both of her parents as being born in New York.  In the  census...

Joseph Hyrum Thiessens By Golden V. Adams Jr. [As told to the author by Henrietta Thiessens, about 1962] It was a nice clear winter day in January.  The snow that was lying on the ground glistened as if it were manna from heaven.  This was the day a blessing from heaven...

Parentage: Folkert Teunis Folkers was born 12 Jan 1859 in Groningen, Netherlands. He was the oldest of six children—four boys and two girls—born to Teunis Folkers and Foekje Severien. The father, Teunis, was a ship’s captain and his ship was lost in the North Sea of the Atlantic Ocean on 23...

Phyllis Porter Scott was born in Salem in the old family home that was located on 200 South 300 West.  She is 85 years young and has lived in Salem all her life except for 2 years that she was in California and 1 year serving a mission for the LDS...

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Fish Bait or Shark Bait?   The Belgian ex-paratrooper and the Footloose Forester met at Sal Island, Cape Verde under circumstances that are long forgotten.  It didn’t matter; the rough and tumble Belgian was coming to...

On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Looking Back With Mixed Emotions and Memories   Thanks to the photographic record, recalling a few details of the lavishness of Anh Sao’s house in Viet Nam can be shared with others.  As time passes,...

We All Have Core Beliefs;  These Are Some Of Mine      1.  Despite the darkness of the night, I believe that the sun will shine again.  Despite the depths of our despair and sorrow, that sun will warm our hearts and spirits.  There is nothing I can do to suppress...

                This is the first time I got trampled by a bull. I rode it all the way.   I just remember I was getting up and I looked up and that bull was right on me. I flattened right down and he caught my head and stomped on my shirt and...

George and Josie L. Borden, Their Story      George Borden( Boydon) was born in Pennsylvania , in 1858 to parents Franklin Boydon (Jan. 28,1825-Sept. 15,1893= Pennsylvania) and Ellen (Johnson) Boydon( Jan.12,1839-July 3,1899 =Ireland).  His parents we re married in Tioga Co. Pennsylvania in 1856, both of Irish Descent. The family lived...

Lena Bogan Her Story        Lena Delilah Bogan was born on October 5 th  ,1887 at Breckenridge, Caldwell Co. Missouri to Robert H. Bogan (b.Mar. 17,1847 Mo.-d.Jan.13,1939 Mo.) and Zilpha E. (Johnson) Bogan (b. Aug. 20,1864 Pa.-d. Jan.01,1962- Mo.).  She was the middle child in the family.  She had two...

On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   What Goes Around Comes Around   The first time that the Footloose Forester ever set eyes upon a  Zyzyphus   jujuba tree was in a desert region in Sind Province, Pakistan.  Travelers in the desert...

              THE STORY OF MY LIFE     BY ANDREW NIELSON BORN 1 JANUARY 1827 GANTRUP, SKONBERG, DENMARK 　 　 Typed from an original typed copy which is faded, so there may be minor differences. I got my copy from my cousin, Stanley (Jay) Brady  ...

This week's topic is "Your Early Social Life" but it is also Bill's 96th birthday!

Having been married at 16 Annette had no real social life as a single adult. She tells the story of meeting her husband, getting married, and then moving to Watson, a halt on the Nullarbor Plain for the Trans Australia railway.