Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Did Your Grandparents Know Their Grandparents?

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 

1)  Marie Cooke Beckman on her blog, MarieB's Genealogy Blog--Southeastern USA, asked and answered this question, and it is right up the SNGF alley:  Did your grandparents know their grandparents?  Thank you for the idea, Marie!

2) Tell us about your grandparents and their grandparents in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.

Here's mine:

1)  My paternal grandparents were Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) and Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962).

• Frederick Walton Seaver's paternal grandparents were Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) and Lucretia Smith (1828-1884).  He lived across the street from Isaac Seaver until Isaac died in 1901.  He knew Lucretia only as a child who died when he was 8 years old.  

• Frederick's maternal grandparents were Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) and Sophia Newton (1834-1923).  He lived with them until he was married in 1900 and then lived near them until thier deaths in Leominster, Massachusetts.. 

• Alma Bessie Richmond's paternal grandparents were James Richmond (1821-1912) and Hannah Rich (1824-1911).  Bessie knew them both all of her life up until their deaths.

• Bessie's maternal grandparents were Henry White (1824-1885) and Amy Oatley(1826-1864).   She certainly did not know her grandmother, but she certianly met her grandfather as a very young child because they lived in close proximity in Killingly, Connecticut.

Frederick Walton Seaver knew three of his four grandparents, and Alma Bessie Richmond knew three of her four grandparents.

2)  My maternal grandparents were Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976) and Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977).  

• Lyle Lawrence Carringer's paternal grandparents were David Jackson "D.J." Carringer (1828-1902) and Rebecca Spangler (1832-1901).  He first met them as a 4 year old traveling to Boulder, Colorado with his mother, and then knew them, as a young boy of age 8 to 11, during the last years of their lives after they moved to San Diego in 1898.

• Lyle's maternal grandparents were Devier J. "D.J." Smith (1839-1894) and Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931).  I don't think he ever met Devier Smith but I know that Abigail Vaux lived with or lived nearby Lyle's family in San Diego from 1891 to 1931.

• Emily Kemp Auble's paternal grandparents were David Auble (1817-1894) and Sarah A. Knapp (1818-1904), who resdied in Terre Haute, Indiana.  She did not meet her grandfather, who died 5 years before she was born, but she may have met her grandmother as a young child although they lived in different cities in Illinois.

• Emily's maternal grandparents were James Abram Kemp (1831-1901) and Mary Jane Sovereen (1840-1874), who lived all of their lives in Norfolk county, Ontario.  I don't think Emily ever met her maternal grandfather and her maternal grandmother died 25 years before Emily was born.  

Lyle Lawrence Carringer knew three of his four grandparents, and Emily Kemp Auble might have known one of her grandparents. 

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