NEW Family Chart
January 28, 2009 | Ancestry | Comments [3]
I updated the Family Chart. I hope I got most of it right:)
The Link to the right now opens this chart.
Fred at Hanover House
July 28, 2008 | Ancestry | No Comments
Bill SR tells me Fred Polhemus has opted for an aggressive chemotherapy treatment. This will keep him in a long state of exhaustion. He has been moved to the ‘Hanover House’ behind St Vincent’s hospital for those that wish to visit when they are in town. It is a care facility specifically for those undergoing harsh treatments.
BUDDY: Update on Fred Polhemus Sr.
July 22, 2008 | Ancestry | Comments [8]
I thought this message from BUDDY was important enough to receive a post of its own, rather than just as part of Buddy’s response regarding Beth:
I went to UAB Hospital to sit with Fred Polhemus Saturday Night (Bill Polhemus SR’s oldest brother). He probably won’t be with us through the end of the week. The cancer is everywhere. His son Rick was there with his wife and daughter Stephanie (25 yrs old). Though humor abounded (Fred has a sense of humour drier than the Sahara Desert) and everyone was glad to see one another (I haven’t seen my cousin Rick in 20 years) this is never the situation one chooses to get back together. Fred hugged me and kissed my hand and said he was so glad to see me. Rick told me that the night before, Bill SR had to go out in the hallway to cry because Fred had just thanked his little brother for all the wonderful things he had done for him and his family over the years and Fred told him that he loved him. If you have ever known Fred, you’d know that was NOT his natural way of expressing himself.
I spent Sunday evening at the home of Bill Polhemus SR’s sister, Amanda Lemay. Jacob and I went over to eat with Bill SR with his wife Sarah, Amanda with her husband Bobby, the other sister Mary with her husband Ben and Fred’s wife Beverly. Believe me when I say that loud get togethers are not just specific to Pagan get togethers. Bill SR was his jovial self, Amanda tooled around and hostessed as best she could and Mary sat on the couch to converse. They talked about everything and Mary turned to me and she asked me why my mother, Elaine never became a writer. I told her that Mom writes quite often now, why would she wonder that. Mary said that while she and Ben were stationed in Japan she used to get the most glorious letters from Mom. They were so detailed you could see and smell everything she was describing. I told Mary that Mom still writes that way and has several Grand daughters that have the same gift. Those letters came to Mary 50 years ago and she still remembered them fondly.
Anyway, the point of my own novel here was to say… let’s enjoy this upcoming opportunity. Let’s hug and bless one another while we can and while we are all still healthy and happy and earthbound. Let’s have some good memories cause the Grandkids will be talking about this when they get together in 2058:)
The very moment that has just passed by
It’s gone forever you can laugh or cry
In our memories we fall or fly …away
letters from civil war soldiers
June 13, 2008 | Ancestry | No Comments
I found a letter written to to of my great-great aunts from my great great Uncle but I’m too sleepy to write it tonight. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I had to call Salt Lake
June 13, 2008 | Ancestry | No Comments
I made a bad mistake in trying to seal two of my ancestors. A great-great aunt from the Chapman side, Desty Lavinia Chapman, and her husband John Zollicoffer Anderson. I hit the “Print Now” key, and two things went wrong. The printer was out of paper, and I didn’t give it time to print, before I hit the “Yes” key (that It had been printed correctly) The computer picked it up to mean it had really been printed, and put “In Progress” by the names, meaning that the work was in progress, and I couldn’t do anymore about it, and neither could anybody else. I went “nut” trying to figure it out, and finally had to call for help. Two angels in Salt Lake walked me carefully through the steps, and got me out of the jam. I burst into tears, and could barely say “thank you”. I was so relieved and happy. This work is so important. And I had just read in a book that I’m reading , “Temple Manifestations” about a temple worker whose father, who was not a member of the church, appeared to him in the Manti Temple, and told his son that he and his mother had to live separate and apart, and only he could do the ordinance work to seal them, so that they could be together, and would he please find out what he had to do, and get it done. He promised his father he would surely do it, and he did. That really pushed me to desperate means today to do something about this couple. I was purely stumped. We are not to think for one moment that this work isn’t important, because the spirits are watching us continually, and hoping that we will remember them.
Another Cousin
June 9, 2008 | Ancestry | No Comments
I forgot to mention Gary McLure. He’s a brother to Larry Mclure. He would be your first cousin once removed. Larry tried his best to keep from bragging, but couldn’t hold it in. I told him to please go ahead and brag. He said he was so very proud of his brother. Gary is President of five banks in Warner Robbins, Georgia, and is apparently quite wealthy. Larry said he regretted so much that Frank didn’t live to see how successful his children were (except Larry, who is the oldest letter carrier in Warner Robbins, Georgia). But I happen to think Letter Carriers are very successful. Anyway. Obviously, his brother Franklin is doing well in the construction business, and sister Kim married well. His mother became ill with Altzheimers before her children became so wealthy. And Frank died in 1987, long before.
I’m still grieving over Cherry’s death, and I haven’t seen her since she was a teenager, but she and Ellen and Howard were little tots hanging around all of my teenage years. They lived ten years in the home that I love so much where my family lived for three years. It’s difficult to believe that Buck’s children could be so successful, when he drank himself to death. They just ignored him…..but loved him very much. When I talked to Ellen the other night, she spoke of him with nothing but love in her tone. I loved him, too. He was in my life forever. The McLures all died young, every single one of them. Frank was the oldest…..at 66.
Mother…44 Frances….47 Jeanette….47 Buck…..50 Nell…….65 Frank…….66…….Ruby…disappeared…..Lou Ellen…..a child Morgan…..10
Talking to cousins
June 4, 2008 | Ancestry | No Comments
I have talked to Larry McLure, first cousin who lives in Bonaire, Georgia, son of Frank McLure. His mother, Ann, just died. I just talked to Ellen McLure tonight, daughter of Buck. Her mother, Ruth, died in 2004, and I have already done the baptism and initiatory for her, and her sister, Cherry died last year of Cancer. Ellen is so sad, because the double tragedy has almost been more than she can bear. Their brother, Howard, is CEO of something huge, and he’s worth about 11 million. He’s very humble and modest, but his worth is public consumption, found somewhere in the Forbes Magazine. I knew he had some money, when he lived in B’ham, because he lived in Mountain Brook, but I never dreamed it was so huge. Ruth didn’t tell me.
Howard was born in the little house on Cherry Avenue, where my parents lived for three years, and where my brother died.
On The McLure Family
May 29, 2008 | Ancestry | Comments [1]
I looked in some of the McLure files that I have stashed away, and pulled out an old article from a Troy Newspaper, The Troy Messenger: February 27, 1967, and it’s all about the McLure family: entitled:
Mclure Family Lists Many Pioneers In Pike County.
Interesting article. Begins with the earliest: John Mclure…came from Scotland. We already know all of that.
And goes on to list Daddy Mac and his three sisters and brother. I’ve long wondered who they were, and when I talked to Babs, we began to GET OUR MEMORIES JOGGED, and together the two of us started to remember things about Daddy Mac’s relatives. Enough that I went into Newfamily, and had enough information to list his three sisters and one brother with Abouts and of’s and get them ready for their ordinance work to be done. I hope I’m right to do that. If not, I’m sure I’ll hear about it in the next life.