My Roots Run Deep

Stories From My Family History

Canoeing

As a kid one of our favorite things to do was go on canoe trips with family and friends. My parents had several spots we could put in and several we could take out. How long the trip was to take determined the in and out spots on the river. We usually had at...

Trespassers

One of my favorite places to go and walk through nature is some property we own by the river. There used to be a bridge that my children had named the Dangerous Bridge, it was old with holes working their way though the floor so that you could look down as you...

Fixing a Car (Not so conventional)

Watching a neighbor work with a backhoe in our field trying to find an old well (that's a completely different story), I was talking to one of my dad's friends about my dad. All the things I know about fixing cars comes from my dad.... though none of it is...

Meal (the one that shaped me most?)

I have the Becoming journal and have slowly been working on it. I was just faced with the question about the most memorable meal. Of course over time I've had lots of family meals that meant a lot to me, and I can remember getting together with friends and family....

Memories from the Table

After moving we stored things we couldn't use in a shed until we could figure out what to do. One of those things was an antique Duncan Phyfe dining room table from my aunt Kate - my Grandmother's sister. My aunt Kate had been married twice and couldn't have children....

Too Much or Not Enough

Every so often I wonder if I did enough or too much for my kids and I think back to how much my parents did when I was growing up. I frequently think about what my parents didn't do.... but there are things my parents did. When I was in school one of my desires was to...

The Honey Bear

Our families first deer, Bambi, came from a man in Danville who had collected animals. He had a wild array of animals and had decided to get rid of them. I still remember going to his house and waiting in the house seeing his monkey and others while my dad went out to...

Buffalo Escape… Why have Buffalo? (Others escaped too)

Buffalo who have escaped in the next county have been all over the news this week. A family that farms has been raising them for meat and a herd broke the fence. The school bus was driving their route and happened to come upon a herd of buffalo and alerted everyone....

Father’s Day

Jun 19, 2011 | Richter | 0 Comments

My father is a Richter. One of 10 kids, Tom, Harold, Howard, Robert, Dorothy, Margaret, Ethel, Linda, Norma, Cleda Fern (the only one that didn't live to be an adult). In that time period it was amazing to have ten kids with 9 living to be adults. (Five are still...

Collins T. McArdle

Jun 15, 2011 | McArdle | 0 Comments

In my records I found a picture of Collins T McArdle. (With an unidentified woman that should be his wife). In my family records I show three Collins McArdles - one is far enough back that it is obviously not the correct record. The other two are...

Olive McArdle

Jun 13, 2011 | McArdle | 0 Comments

Olive McArdle - wife of Levi McArdle. Interestingly enough I found a Census entry in 1900 for a Levi McArdle in Kansas that shows him living with the Louthard family as a servant (and widowed). He is listed as born in April 1855 in Illinois. There is...

Leroy Trackwell – More

Jun 12, 2011 | McArdle | 0 Comments

In my Family Tree software, I looked up what I had previously on Leroy Trackwell. He is listed as the Husband of my 1st Cousin 3X Removed. I wonder at what point things should be removed from my tree. It shows his wife is the daughter of Remus...

Leroy Trackwell Family

Jun 12, 2011 | McArdle | 0 Comments

One of the photos in my collection is the Leroy Trackwell Family. The photo has 8 people in it and I was able to find a census record for a Leroy Trackwell from 1900 in Leavenworth Kansas.The Census record lists : Name Age Leroy Trachwell 55 Charles Trachwell 23...

Elmer McArdle, Uriah McArdle, and Mandy McArdle

Jun 6, 2011 | McArdle | 0 Comments

Here is an example of pictures I have that were scanned from copies of originals. This picture was Uriah, Elmer and Mandy McArdle taken in front of their homestead. The middle copy shows the whole picture where as the first and last are higher...

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