Grilled Grandmas: The next generation
This week's Grilled Grandma feature highlights the mother of one of my previous Grilled Grandmas. I'm honored to have now grilled two sensational -- as well as beautiful -- generations from the same family.
(Of course, I did grill my own mother and my grandmother, but that's different.)
So here I give you Grilled Grandma: Billie and some of the interesting tidbits you'll learn about this active great-grandmother by reading her grilling:
1. As I mentioned, Billie is the mother of a previous Grilled Grandma. Any guesses as to who that former Grilled Grandma is?
2. Why were a vehicle's taillights once "the best thing" for Billie to see?
3. Who are the "outlaws" in Billie's family?
Once you're done reading of Billies' outlaws and more, take a moment to check out her website, mentioned at the bottom of her grilling.
Today's question:
Speaking of outlaws, what is one of the more unusual or interesting connections on your family tree?
My answer: Supposedly I'm somehow connected, on my dad's side of the family, to the founders of Yale University. In which case, I think I -- and my children -- should have been granted guaranteed admission with free tuition. Sounds reasonable, don't ya think?
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Reader Comments (5)
Heck yeah! You should have had a free ride to Yale :-)
We aren't connected to anybody famous - but do have in the family tree someone who was convicted of murder (along with several others) back in the 1800s, and the story is part of the history of a small town in the state where I live. To talk about it there even today gets people riled up. The men involved were pardoned and released from prison, eventually, but it is still quite the scandal.
I don't have anyone famous in my family that I know of yet but I think my Granny should have been. She was, for years, a traveling Mid-wife, having learned by attending her mother-in-law, Mother Allen (papa's mama) and told many sad and scary tales about the poor women and children in the backwoods areas of North Carolina mountain towns, back in that day.
My great-grandma on my dad's side was pure Hawaiian. That is very unusual nowadays with all the inter-marriages and cultures. She never married my great-grandpa so her last name is what was carried down thru generations - my Hawaiian maiden name is Kapu. My great-grandpa on my mom's side came from the Azores to Hawaii to work in the sugarcane fields....he was pure Portugese. My great-grandma on my mom's side came from China to find work in Hawaii also....she was pure Chinese.
I'm never sure if it's charming or creepy that my grandpa (on my dad's side) was 45 when he married Grandma -- who was just 19. They had eight children and were together more than 50 years. Grandpa lived to be 98, so they must have done something right.
I came across your boomer related website and wanted to say I liked it.
Thanks for the reading, I hope I see more post like this one.