tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114307744147144762.post6067435592987409663..comments2023-07-08T06:45:37.946-06:00Comments on Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog: A Letter to our Grandmother Louise and our Grandfather RoscoeDwighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06174492647465668322noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114307744147144762.post-12257148020114503402008-03-24T11:19:00.000-06:002008-03-24T11:19:00.000-06:00Beautifully written, Dwight. Elizabeth, apprecia...Beautifully written, Dwight. Elizabeth, appreciate the geneaology and family history information that you are writing. We really must have some way of preserving these gems.Louise Bloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720563725669666384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114307744147144762.post-26744669612301195672008-03-24T10:38:00.000-06:002008-03-24T10:38:00.000-06:00I do remember how some of our cousins had two sets...I do remember how some of our cousins had two sets of grandparents, whom they knew quite well. I could never understand how they could spend time with any other grandparents than Grandma and Grandpa Wasden. It just felt disloyal. Looking back I realize how fortunate they were to have had a clearer picture of their heritage. Reading about where our Eastern European ancestors possibly came from, tender feelings do surface. Dwight, you have hit on those tender feelings ever so well.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06652616779595499610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114307744147144762.post-1566892591177594612008-03-24T09:28:00.001-06:002008-03-24T09:28:00.001-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288597968563641842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114307744147144762.post-27172578856166379852008-03-24T09:28:00.000-06:002008-03-24T09:28:00.000-06:00If I have done the math right, Roscoe was only 16 ...If I have done the math right, Roscoe was only 16 years old when his father, Moses, died.Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288597968563641842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114307744147144762.post-28482448990491391702008-03-24T08:39:00.000-06:002008-03-24T08:39:00.000-06:00There was an article by a geneaologist in this mor...There was an article by a geneaologist in this morning's Logan newspaper, talking about grandparents and great-grandparents. The author claimed that most people cannot not only name their great-grandparents, but do not know who their grandparents were. So, can we?<BR/>Maternal grandparents: James Brooks Wasden, and Tilda Christena Christenson (Wasden);<BR/>Paternal grandparents: Roscoe Marion Blood and Louise Krajicek;<BR/>Maternal great-grandparents: John Brooks Wasden and Ana Sophia Olsen (Wasden) (Grandpa's parents), and John (Johan) Christenson and Christena Akesson (Christenson)<BR/>Paternal great-grandparents: Moses Blood and Sarah Batty Hawkins (Blood); and Frank (Frantisek) Krajieck and Veronika Mach.<BR/>All great-grandparents were immigrants coming to USA from the 1850s to 1878 except that Moses Blood's progenitors came to the colonies from very early on - one John Thompson who preceded the Pilgrims, settling a land grant of Thompson's Island; Sarah Batty Hawkins' progenitors also were here very early, settling in the South. There, that's your genealogy lesson for this morning - everyone learn that!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14728351230605312730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114307744147144762.post-17458797908524645312008-03-24T08:16:00.000-06:002008-03-24T08:16:00.000-06:00This does remind me that someday we will have the ...This does remind me that someday we will have the opportunity to have a like conversation with our unaquainted grandparents. This piece has made me think.....once again.Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288597968563641842noreply@blogger.com