From
Randy Seaver on Saturday: Here is your assignment if you choose to play along
(cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):
1) Write down which of your ancestors that you have met in person (yes, even if you were too young to remember them).
2) Tell us their names, where they lived, and their relationship to you in a blog post, or in comments to this post, or in comments on Facebook.
1) Write down which of your ancestors that you have met in person (yes, even if you were too young to remember them).
2) Tell us their names, where they lived, and their relationship to you in a blog post, or in comments to this post, or in comments on Facebook.
This is a fairly easy one for me. The count ends at
four.
Here is a picture of my Dad’s parents’ grandchildren
at their 50th wedding anniversary celebration, which would have been
in 1960. I joke that it’s not fair- they left me out of the picture and instead
included one great-granddaughter. The truth of the matter is, they thought they
had all the grandchildren in the picture and never knew their mistake. They
both died two years later and it was three years after that before I was even
born.
So, here are the people that I have actually met:
Alice Ward- Mom. Although she lived in Skaneateles
and Auburn, they were before I was born. From a little before I was born she
lived on the farm in Moravia in the house that is in the background of the
picture above. Her and Dad bought it off my grandparents’ estate. In later
years she lives just outside of Auburn in the town of Owasco.
Gordon Ward (1919-1998)- Dad. He never lived in
Skaneateles; that was Mom’s childhood home. He also lived on another farm from
the one in the picture. It was to the north and east of there over the town
line in the Town of Niles. That was for the first four years of his life.
Otherwise, the places are the same as hers only with two different time periods
living on the farm, the first time when his parents bought it while he was a
child and then after their deaths when he and Mom owned it. They had also spent their early married life
in Moravia near the farm, first at the lake in a couple different cottages and
then in what was referred to as “the tennant farm” just to the north of my grandparents
on a small farm that my grandparents owned.
Marion Wooster (1896-1976) Grandpa. I’m not sure if
I know all the places he lived. He was born in Sheldon, Iowa. His parents then
came “home” to Lysander, NY and lived in Weedsport for a brief time just as he
enlisted in the Army. He was stationed for a time at Fort Brown, Texas. During
the end of his Army enlistment he and Grandma lived in rented places in
Washington, DC before arriving in Skaneateles where his parents were living.
They spent the rest of their lives in various houses in the village.
Alice Jennings Wooster (1893-1970). Grandma. She was
born in Keelinga, Leap, County Cork Ireland and grew up on her father’s farm
there. After immigrating at age 19, she lived in and around Boston. She
enlisted in the Army Nurse’s Corp and was stationed at Fort Brown, Texas. The rest
of her locations follow that of Grandpa. I know she was discharged while at Rantoul,
IL, but I think that was a brief stay and not actually living there.
