Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Five Questions For An Ancestor

 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)  If you could go back in time to interview one of your ancestors, what questions would you ask him or her?  Tell us your selected ancestor's name, their birth and death years/locations, and their spouse's name and marriage date/location.  List at least five questions to ask that selected ancestor.

2)  Tell us about your selected ancestor and your questions for them in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook comment.

Here's mine:

My selected ancestor is my third great-grandfather Samuel Vaux (1816 in Somerset to 1880 in Kansas), who married Mary Ann Underhill in 1837 in New York.  

My questions are (I have six...):

• What do you recall of your home and family living in South Petherton, Somerset?  Where was it located, what was the house like, who was in your family?  What were your chores, education, friends, entertainment, and fun experiences. 
• Tell me a story about migrating from England to New York in 1832 on a sailing ship with your family - discuss the trip, the quarters, the food, the landing, and ground travel to and from the ship.
• What advice and wisdom did your father (or mother) give you about selecting a wife, marriage relations, family traditions, being a husband and father, etc.
• Why did you move from Aurora, New York to Dodge County, Wisconsin in 1854, to Andrew County, Missouri in 1867, and to Kansas in 1880?
• What was the hardest work you ever performed, and what was the most satisfying and rewarding work?
• When and where were you the most happy and content, and when and where were you the most fearful and worried?  Why?

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