Posted in Occupations, geography, letters, personal, stories, tagged France, Garmisch, Germany, Holland, letters, military, Wiesbaden, WWI, WWII on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday I spent a few hours scanning letters that my grandparents wrote to my parents while my grandparents were stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany. It has been several years since I read them so it was a chance for me to re-read while I was scanning. I try not to handle these pages from the early [...]
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Posted in Life and Death, Occupations, Photographs, Uncategorized, tagged genealogy, religion, Christian, UCC, Methodist, Catholicism, Nazarene, Salvation Army, church, occupation, Evangelical, Reformed, Baptist on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
As referenced in the post “A Butcher, A Baker, a . . . Harness Maker?” my family consists of several ministers. My great-uncle, Rollo Werts Amore, was commissioned in the Salvation Army in 1918. He performed many duties as an officer in the “Army”. One of those was to officiate at my parents’ wedding in [...]
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Many of my family members have served in the Armed Forces at one time in their lives. Most of them volunteered to serve their country while at least one that I know personally - was drafted at a time when big swooping changes were occurring throughout the nation.
My great-grandfather, James Emory House, was a member of Company [...]
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Posted in Occupations on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yep - you read that right! A Harnessmaker! Wanted to list the occupations of folks in my family history file so I spent a little time yesterday evening going through the list. I haven’t input some occupations yet so this is really an incomplete listing. Most of the occupations I’ve found either through censuses or [...]
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