I mentioned before that we have a large extended family. Every July we have a whopper of a reunion. It all began when Granny said one year, "Why don't you give me a birthday party in the park?" Her birthday is July 30, and so we did - and still are!
We meet July 26 at the Cameron Road Church of Christ in Austin and have fellowship and an evening meal, continuing into Sunday, July 27, at the Bartlett Community Center. We owe a BIG thank you to Velma and David Pierce for long hours in arranging all this. And talk about food - oh my!!! We also have our own worship service, as so many of us are members of the Church of Christ.
My grandparents were John Marion Emerson, (2-01-1872 - 4-05-1929), and Bertha Nancy Ellen Hager, (7-30-1882 - 7-13-1972). They were married June 21, 1902. They had 8 great kids - Velma, Viola, Blanche, Evie, Edna, Earl, Eulamae (Toots) and John, Jr. - our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and, yes, great great grandparents (with a few more "greats" probably added in).
This same weekend my daughters, great grandaughters and I will attend my Navy Man's reunion at Swertner, Texas. This would be the John Delashment Carlile reunion - 68th year.My Navy man, and the love of my life was James Lowell King (1923-1969) It is great to still keep in touch with his folks.
The pictures are of Grandaddy and Granny - John & Bertha, and the old Emerson farmhouse between Walburg and Georgetown, Texas.
Enough family history - now you know !
6 comments:
Hello,
I'm Cat, a friend of HermitJim's, and a lover of history and genealogy. I found you over at Jim's blog and just wanted to say, Good Job on the blog.
Hope to see more from you. I love that you have chosen to embrace the internet and computers and such. My mother in law and maternal grandmother are both 88 and have so much to share...but are both very obstinate about anything computer related. Such a shame.
Welcome to the world of "a blog of your own"...
Hope you have a wonderful day,
Cat
Thanks for your comments, Cat. Maybe you can get your folks talking and tape record some stories, So much has changed during my lifetime - I remember riding to town in a horse-drawn wagon and things like that our younger folks won't have a clue unless we tell them about it.
Hey Mom...boy, do I have some memories of the reunions of the Old Days! Shame we can't ever capture those types of fun again.
Sign of the times, I guess!
Good job, by the way!
We really did have lots of fun,, didn't we? Remember soaping the railroad tracks - - did we really think a little Camay soap was going to derail a TRAIN??? And "stealing" watermelons. Looking back, I don't remember ever getting out of a patch with any melons. It was slip in - shh! be quiet! here's a good one! run, someones coming. (It's really difficult trying to run when you are about 6 months pregnant - trust me on that one!!
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Wow... a reunion... am I invited? What about the Navy thing? I used to be in the Navy.
It's interesting hearing more family history. Mom tried to keep me isolated from you guys, and I have a lot of catch-up to do.
BTW, I love your blog!!!
Hugs,
Ashley
(your favorite granddaughter)
Hey, Ashley! Thanks for the kind words. "Course you"re invited - just let me knmow so we can see who has an extra nail to hang you up. . .Lodging gets a bit crowded sometime with Ann, Kaiya, Beth and I crash
ing at Dorothy"s, but usually there's another cousin willing to take in a stray.
Glad you liked the blog - it's fun!
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