Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday
Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy
Fun!!
Our mission today:
1) Did your grandparents know their grandparents personally?
2) Check your family tree, and share your grandparents' names, birth and death years and places, and their grandparents' names, birth and death years and places. Indicate if they knew their grandparents.
Here’s mine:
We did this on February 15 of this year. https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2025/02/sngf-did-your-grandparents-know-their.html.
However, I’ll play, but ask if my parents knew their grandparents.
My father, William J. Hork, was born in 1930 in Southern California. His grandparents were:
- Johan Anton Hork, b. 1843 in Germany, d. 1906 in Wyoming. – No
- Julia Ann Sievert, b. 1854 in Illinois, died 1928 in
Illinois. – No
- John H. Sullivan, b. 1854 in Ireland, died 1932 in So. California. – Maybe, but he was too young to remember
- Anna Marie Gleeson, b. 1860 in Ontario, Canada, died 1912 in Montana. – No.
My mother, Lela Nell Johnston, was born in 1934 in Texas. Her grandparents were:
- Thomas N. Johnston, b. 1885 in Texas, d. 1951. – Yes
- Nell L. Hutson, b. 1888 in Texas, d. 1919. – No
- George W. Lancaster, b. 1893 in Texas, d. 1964. – Yes
- Lela Ann Loveless, b. 1896 in Arkansas, d. 1951 in Texas. – Yes
I knew three out of four of my grandparents:
- William C. Hork, b 1899 in Montana, died 1967 in So. California. – No. Grandparents were separated.
- Anna M. Sullivan, b. 1892 in Montana, died 1980 in No. California. – Yes
- Tom J Johnston, b 1912 in Texas, died 1973 in No. California. – Yes
- Pansy L Lancaster, b 1913 in Texas, died 2013 in No. California. – Yes.
I thought this challenge sounded familiar. I redid it anyway, but if I use your topic, I knew 3 out of 4 grandparents. My paternal grandfather died of TB when my dad was only 10 years old.
ReplyDeleteMy maternal grandmother and my paternal grandfather were both raised by their grandparents after the influenza epidemic took their mothers.
ReplyDeleteI knew my maternal grandparents and my paternal grandfather. My paternal grandmother died the year I was born.
That's interesting that three of your father's grandparents died before he was born and the fourth when he was 2, as none of them died particularly young. Were his parents late-in-life children or youngest children in their families?
ReplyDeleteYes. My dad was the youngest. Both his parents were near the end of the child list.
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