Leeann Boone's Blog – December 2009 Archive (9)

This was my Milwaukee Journal Sentinal on Christmas Eve and I thought I'd post it and remind everyone of their childhood beleifs.



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Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other… Continue

Lastnight while in a genie chat me and another chatter goto talking about our family and how the women affected them. This made me remember that my mother had told me about her grandmother Phylis Erke who just passed away in September at 101.



When her husband would take the boys out hunting for deer she'd wait for them to leave and then put some feed out on the porch and then watch from inside the living room and when they'd come up for feed she'd shoot them. Great gramps and the… Continue

Genealogist's Dilemma



While looking up my family tree

A horrid sight there I did see

This horse thief stared right down at me

I turned around and tried to flee



Please stop he called I'm Great Gramp Bob

And horses just my side line job

Don't be too quick to be a snob

With the elite I did hob nob



Please do not hide this sad research

I was a pillar of the church

Until I did our name besmirch

And toppled from my lofty… Continue

1930 WI state census for Sina: 1930 wife of head of household lived in Milwaukee,Milwaukee,WI wife of Henry S. Heldahl mother Einar who was 6 in 1930. Approximate DOB 1899. She was the first mother in law of my great aunt Helen.

Interesting details discovered during the process of indexing the British 1881 Census. (Found in the Ensign magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, March 1996, p. 58.)



* The wife, mother, and daughter of James Christmas were all named Mary Christmas



* Frank Guest was listed as a visitor



* Harriet Goodhand was listed as a domestic servant



* The families of William Lovegrove, Henry Dearlove, and William Darling all lived on the same… Continue

BEETHOVEN'S NINTH

A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source.

He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770- 1827. Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with him. By the time they arrive back at… Continue

Found these while surfing the web. I'll posting in multiple entries since I found alot I'd like to share.



"From those women and men

of great spirit, intelligence, and strength

who came before us and said 'yes' to life,

may we embody the best of their qualities.

In gratitude for their lives lived,

let us now continue to build a world

based on love, and on our inherited wisdom

about the oneness of the Creator and of the Creation

in all its… Continue

For this memorial in Belgium: http://www.schoonselhof.be/2bfredegandus/boon.html

Surprisingly and unfortunatly I havent heard much about Pearl Harbor yet. Infact the first time I heard it mentioned was during Monday Night Football Halftime show. I'd like to extend my thanks and condolences to families who lost loved ones that day and to those of you who served: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You truly are the greatest generation that ever lived.



From USAtoday.com





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