Saturday, April 3, 2021
Sunny Saturday Hiatus
I need a break from the Barney-Stolls family of which my four sons are blood relations of any that are left. My "Legend of the Cherokee Maps" finally arrived yesterday and I spent some time late into the night reading it. It is quite intriguing. Raysongs has done a very good job. I want to spend...
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Friday, April 2, 2021
(VI) Family Puzzle
On his death bed, with family gathered around, Jacob C. Stoll made a statement with his hands that his family and his descendants puzzled over, pondered, studied on, and questioned if they had misunderstood his signing. Bertha Barney Stoll was positive that she had understood him correctly and if...
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
(V) Hard Life Blues
By the time Baby Agnes was born Lawrence and Milford were big boys, big enough to be a big help at the farming, a big help to their father. Evva Dean was second mother to the little ones along with now being chief cook and bottle washer. She also had her eye on a beau. She met Michael Summers at a...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021
(IV) The Family
It was a good thing the first baby was a girl for as it turned out, she was the motherly type, and as the other babies came along took good care of her siblings that followed. She never complained of hard work or had to be told what needed doing. She helped her mother uncomplainingly with all the...
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Monday, March 29, 2021
(III) The Last Party
In the late 1800's, farming was hard work. It always has been. It is now. And it always will be. "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Genesis 3:19 All of the people in this bit...
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