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Chuck’s combat training for Marine Corps
Fallon children raised by their grandparents
My 4th great-grandparents, on my mother’s father’s side, were 100% Irish. I am referring to the POWELL > FALLON line, specifically these people: Beginning on the left in the diagram above is my maternal grandfather, Gale Powell. To his right is his father, Alva Powell. Alva’s mother was Margaret Lucy Fallon. Her parents were James… Read More Fallon children raised by their grandparents
A Terrible Death, A Terrible Life
“The wife of Jim Fallon, who keeps a low doggery, died with the delirium tremens Monday afternoon. Jim’s death is looked for at any time in the same way. This was a terrible death and she lived a terrible life. She leaves four little children.” — Connersville Examiner, 17 July 1879, p. 2, column 5,… Read More A Terrible Death, A Terrible Life
The family of Joseph Moormann and Bernadina Ellermann
Joseph Moormann was born on 25 August 1871 in Damme, Germany, the son of Johann Heinrich “Henry” grosse Moormann and Maria Agnes Elisabeth Macke. Joseph had many brothers and sisters — he was 1 of 16! While Maria was Joseph’s mother, she was Henry’s second wife. Maria died in 1876 when Joseph was only 6 years… Read More The family of Joseph Moormann and Bernadina Ellermann
The Kassheimer Family of Cincinnati, Ohio
[Note: This narrative was originally written as a homework assignment for a course in professional genealogy in 2014.] Two single German immigrants, living only 10 miles apart in the old country, came separately to Cincinnati in 1847. Marrying, they went on to experience hardships and success over the latter half of the 19th century. This… Read More The Kassheimer Family of Cincinnati, Ohio
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Unstoppable
“I’d be unstoppable, if only I could get started.” I once bought a poster with this statement on it for my father, not because of what it said, but because of the photo on it: a cute, little Shar Pei puppy — or, as I called it at the time, a “wrinkle puppy”. You see,… Read More Unstoppable