My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Because it’s Father’s Day tomorrow our theme from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is: It's Father's Day in the USA on Sunday, so let's talk about our fathers.  Your father probably lived a complete life, and you probably have memories of him.  What memories and attitudes did he "leave" you with? Here's mine: My father, William Joseph Hork (1930-2007), married my mother, Lela Nell Johnston (1934-1992) in 1953. I was the oldest of six children. He left me the following: 1. My love of sports. My father loved watching all kinds of sports on television: football, baseball, golf, and boxing. I don’t care for boxing or wrestling and I can add soccer and tennis to the list of sports I’ll watch. When I was in high school, I remember attending the Oakland Raider games with him at the Coliseum. This was before the team moved to Los Angeles. We had end zone s...

It's  Saturday Nigh t  - time for more  Genealogy Fun! Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1)  Sunday, 19 June, is Father's Day.  Let's celebrate by writing a blog post about our father, or another significant male ancestor (e.g., a grandfather). 2)  What was your father's occupation?  What jobs did he have throughout his life?  Do you know his work history? 3)  Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post. The majority of the time, my father worked in supermarkets as a produce clerk or produce manager. He worked for several different stores but the longest were for LoRay Market and Safeway. The LoRay store in Walnut Creek was only a few blocks away, but he always drove, primarily because he started work at 5ish. This gave him time to put out all of the produce that was removed from the shelves and put...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of GeneaMusing has a new assignment for us this week: Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) It's Father's Day in the USA on Sunday, so let's talk about our fathers.  2)  Show us your favorite photograph of your father - the one that shows him in the best light possible.  Describe the occasion, the setting, and the people in the photograph. 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. I am the first born child of my parents, William “Bill” J. Hork and Lela “Lea” Nell Johnston.   My next brother was born just two years and five months later.  This photo, one of my favorites, shows my dad, my mother, my brother, Steve, and myself on Easter Sunday in 1957, just outside the house of mother’s parent’s, who lived at 30...

I am working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. My grandfather, William Cyril Hork, was the youngest of ten children born to Johan Anton Hork and Julia Ann Sievert. [1] His eldest sister, Mary, died before he was born in 1895 of blood poisoning. [2] By 1900, two of his oldest siblings, Ida and Susan, were out of the house. Susan had married Andrew E. Hart on 20 May 1900. [3] Ida was living in Spokane, Washington. [4] His father was a tailor [5]  He also had a drinking problem and lived at home on and off.  Finally he left the family. [6]   In 1906, he died in Sheridan, Wyoming, destitute. [7] Cyril was just seven years old and never really had a father. He did have four older brothers, three of whom never married. The oldest, Albert, w...