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Who Drove Grandma Around the Lake in 1959?

Posted on April 24, 2017 by mjnrootdig

Mrs. Luella Barnett drove Mrs. Cecil Neill around the Carthage Lake in September of 1959. That’s what the clipping “Surprise Family Get-Together” says. A reader wondered if the driver of the car was actually Luella Barnett’s husband and not her. Perhaps he was in the car and he just wasn’t mentioned. It was a good […]

I’m the Reason the Butter Paddle Got Burned

Posted on April 12, 2016 by mjnrootdig

This was originally posted on 14 April 2012 and has been slightly edited. [This is a slight diversion from our usual topics on Rootdig, but there is a genealogy slant.] My paternal grandmother began baby sitting me when I was a few months old and my mother returned to work in August of 1968. A regular ritual […]

A Bottle of Pop, a Candy Bar, a Chiavari, and a Pretty Blond

Posted on April 5, 2016, updated on April 5, 2016 by mjnrootdig

“Dad and I got married in December of 1935.” I’d heard the story so many times that I could probably repeat it back to Grandma although I would never dream of actually doing it. “Dad” without fail always referred to my Grandpa Neill when uttered by Grandma. If she did refer to him by his given […]