Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
1) We all find "fun" or "different" information about ourselves, our relatives and ancestors in our genealogy and family history pursuits. What are five "fun" or "different" facts in your life or your ancestors lives?
2) Tell us about your five fun or different facts in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.
[Thank you to Jacquie Schattner for suggesting this topic last year.]
Here's mine:
a) My mother, Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (1919-2002), was a stay-at-home mom and wife from the mid-1940s until the late 1970s. My father worked, and she nurtured three boys through childhood, into elementary, junior high and high school, did the planning, shopping, cooking, washing, cleaning, decorating, being a baseball fan, and so much more in a relatively small second floor apartment. She didn't drive a car, so was dependent on my father for longer trips and took the city bus downtown or up to North Park, or walked to the nearby stores. When life was too hectic or depressing, or she was done with her daily chores, she would read a book or magazine, or do her copper enamel artwork in the sun room. In the later years, she would have a glass of sherry in the sun room, usually before having to prepare and cook dinner for four hungry males.
b) My maternal grandfather, Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), was a philatelist - he collected stamps from all over the world. Starting in the 1930s, he corresponded with other collectors all over the English speaking world. When new stamps were released by the United States government, he would journey down to the post office and buy two sheets of each new stamp (but not the more expensive ones!). He would save two of the plate blocks of four stamps for himself, and give one plate blok to me and one to my brother Stan as we grew up. Naturally, we collected stamps too, and Saturdays became a day we could go to the stamp collector shop in downtown San Diego. I don't recall ever seeing my grandfather's stamp collection, but itm ust have been grand! After he died, my father found the collection and cataloged it, checked the prices in the Scott's catalog, and eventually sold the lot to other collectors.
c) My maternal great-grandfather, Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946) worked as a carpenter, a millwright, a cabinet maker, a machinist, and an aircraft mechanic. He retired at age 79 in 1932 from his job at Rockwell Field on North Island, which became North Island Naval Aur Station, in Coronado across the bay from downtown San Diego. He was a supervisor in the "dope shop" which put glue on the wing fabric to make the wing skins stiff so they would provide lift to the airplanes. When he retired, the staff gave him a large clock in the middle of a two-blade propeller that was 8 feet in diameter. I wish I had a photo of the clock or had the clock, but I don't and have no idea what happened to it.
d) My 2nd great-grandmother, Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer (1832-1901), was living in Washington County, Iowa in 1972 when she was visiting a friend and a tornado came through and blew the house away. Rebecca, her friend and her friend's two children, went into the cellar for shelter, but when the house blew away they were lifted out of the cellarcarried for some distance, and thrown to the ground. Rebecca was rendered insensible but was not seriously hurt (see Carringers in the News -- The Great Tornado of Washington County, Iowa in May 1873).
e) My 2nd great-grandfather, Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) had a life with many sadnesses. His father, Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) died when Isaac was an infant, and his mother, Abigail Gates (1797-1867), raised Isaac. His uncle, Isaac Seaver (1802-1870) married Abigail in 1832, and three had two sons. Isaac Seaver lived with a guardian, his mother's brother, after 1837. In 1847, Isaac married Juliet Glazier, who bore him a child, Juliet Seaver, in 1848, but Isaac's wife died in childbirth. In 1851, Isaac married Lucretia Smith (1828-1884), and they had four children. He was a hay fork maker, machinist, and a blacksmith. Isaac enlisted in the Massachusetts Artillery in 1863 and served in Washington DC. Isaac's mother died in 1867. Lucretia died in 1884. Isaac married Alvina Bradley in 1888, and they resided in Leominster, Massachusetts. Isaac died in 1901 in Leominster, leaving an estate to his wife and three children.
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5 comments:
I love your stories, the amusing and the sad. Some of our ancestors had difficult lives, indeed. Here are my five fun or different facts: https://karenaboutgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/02/randy-seavers-saturday-night-genealogy.html
These are my "fun" facts. https://geneajournalsbyapearl.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/sngf-five-fun-or-different-facts/
Here are my factoids: http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2025/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-five-fun.html
Here are my fun facts: https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2025/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-331/
I forgot to post it here. https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2025/02/sngf-five-fun-or-different-facts.html
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