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!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  Did your grandparents know their grandparents personally?  

2)  Check you family tree, and share your grandparents names, birth and death years and places, and their grandparents names, birth and death year and places, and indicate if they knew their grandparents.

3)  Share  in your own blog post or in a Facebook, SubStack, BlueSky or other social media post.  Leave a link to your post on this blog post to help us find your post.

Here's mine:

1)  Paternal Grandfather - Frederick Walton Seaver (1876 MA to 1942 MA).  His grandparents were:

• Isaac Seaver (1823 MA to 1901 MA) - yes!
• Lucretia (Smith) Seaver (1828 MA to 1884 MA) - yes!
• Edward Hildreth (1831 MA to 1899 MA)  - yes!
• Sophia (Newton) Hildreth (1834 VT to 1923 MA) - yes!

2)  Paternal grandmother - Alma Bessie Richmond (1882 CT to 1962 MA).  Her grandparents were:

• James Richman (1821 Wiltshire  to 1912 CT)  - yes!
• Hannah (Rich) Richman (1824 Wiltshire to 1911 CT) - yes!
• Henry Arnold White (1824 CT to 1913 CT) - yes!  
• Amy (Oatley) White (1826 RI to 1864 CT) - NO!  Amy died before Bessie was born.

3)  Maternal Grandfather - Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891 CA to 1976 CA).  His grandparents were:

• David Jackson Carringer (1828 PA to 1902 CA) - yes!
• Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer (1832 PA to 1901 CA) - yes!
• Devier J. Smith (1839 NY to 1894 NE) - NO Devier died before Lyle was born.
• Abigail A. (Vaux) Smith (1844 NY to 1931 CA) - yes!

4)  Maternal Grandmother - Emily Kemp Auble (1899 CA to 1977 CA).  Her grandparents were:

• David Auble (1817 NJ to 1894 IN) - NO!
• Sarah (Knapp) Auble (1818 NJ to 1904 IL) - maybe!  Emily lived in Illinois between 1899 and 1911.
• James Abraham Kemp (1831 Ont. to 1902 Ont) - NO!
• Mary Jane (Sovereen) Kemp (1840 Ont. to 1874 Ont.) - NO!

Final totals:

• YES:        10
• NO:            5
• MAYBE:    1

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