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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 14 Dec

I learned something today about my great granduncle, Charles Mansfield Wilkins, I didn't know before. First I'll explain that the family descending from my 2nd great grandfather lost contact with one another and didn't know...

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Wendy For sure! And the fact that my grandfather and my father were also firefighters without knowing about their cousin and uncle across the river from us is pretty amazing!!

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 14 Dec

I learned something today about my great granduncle, Charles Mansfield Wilkins, I didn't know before. First I'll explain that the family descending from my 2nd great grandfather lost contact with one another and didn't know...

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Wendy @Albain The local historical society just sent me a news article of Charles's son retiring from firefighting after 64 and he mentioned in it that they bought that first truck in 1919, so maybe the ones that were pastured were the horse drawn ones. Either way,...

14 Dec

Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 14 Dec

I learned something today about my great granduncle, Charles Mansfield Wilkins, I didn't know before. First I'll explain that the family descending from my 2nd great grandfather lost contact with one another and didn't know...

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Wendy I'm guessing between 1908 and 1911 after they received the truck. By 1919, they'd put the two motorized trucks out to pasture instead of saving them for history.

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 14 Dec

I learned something today about my great granduncle, Charles Mansfield Wilkins, I didn't know before. First I'll explain that the family descending from my 2nd great grandfather lost contact with one another and didn't know...

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 10 Dec

No. She's not still with us. But, today is still 106 years from her birth in 1916. My birthday was last month. She turned 39 a month after I was born and I was her only pregnancy. I didn't get a cake for me, so I decided to get...

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Wendy @kaylachan I thought so.

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 12 Dec

Well, this was a curious finding. One of the things I've noticed in my search of my mother's maiden name is the many different spellings out there. From her grandfather to her, it was spelled Postell. When he was a child, it was...

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Wendy Farther south, the term negro can be found in records along with other designations that try to identify just how "black" they were, many of which were used for discriminatory purposes. This time it was merely an observation with no tinge of bigotry (for that...

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 12 Dec

Well, this was a curious finding. One of the things I've noticed in my search of my mother's maiden name is the many different spellings out there. From her grandfather to her, it was spelled Postell. When he was a child, it was...

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Wendy For me as well.

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 11 Dec

You know how fun that is when you find money you didn't know about or had forgotten about. Well, I was doing a cleanout of my email inbox one sender at a time when I got to Wawa. I pulled up all the Wawa emails and from A YEAR AGO...

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Wendy Maybe a coffee shake or a hot turkey gobbler before the season's over.

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 11 Dec

You know how fun that is when you find money you didn't know about or had forgotten about. Well, I was doing a cleanout of my email inbox one sender at a time when I got to Wawa. I pulled up all the Wawa emails and from A YEAR AGO...

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Wendy Absolutely! Especially when you're on a very fixed income.

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 12 Dec

Well, this was a curious finding. One of the things I've noticed in my search of my mother's maiden name is the many different spellings out there. From her grandfather to her, it was spelled Postell. When he was a child, it was...

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 10 Dec

No. She's not still with us. But, today is still 106 years from her birth in 1916. My birthday was last month. She turned 39 a month after I was born and I was her only pregnancy. I didn't get a cake for me, so I decided to get...

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Wendy @LadyDuck I'm so sorry. Mom had emphysema. She outlived all expectations, but it wasn't easy.

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 10 Dec

No. She's not still with us. But, today is still 106 years from her birth in 1916. My birthday was last month. She turned 39 a month after I was born and I was her only pregnancy. I didn't get a cake for me, so I decided to get...

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Wendy When it comes to cakes, for sure I have memories. Some funny, some poignant, others very tasty. She loved eating and baking cakes AND worked for a bakery for years, so we always had baked goods in the house non-stop.

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 10 Dec

No. She's not still with us. But, today is still 106 years from her birth in 1916. My birthday was last month. She turned 39 a month after I was born and I was her only pregnancy. I didn't get a cake for me, so I decided to get...

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Wendy It is a beautiful cake and very well made. But, it's a tad sweet. I might just give the rest of it to my neighbor. There's half left.

11 Dec

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 10 Dec

No. She's not still with us. But, today is still 106 years from her birth in 1916. My birthday was last month. She turned 39 a month after I was born and I was her only pregnancy. I didn't get a cake for me, so I decided to get...

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Wendy Thanks. I tried to get one for me a month ago, but they didn't have any available (Amazon). As Mom's birthday approached, I decided to see if they had any I could order yet. They did and I got it.

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 10 Dec

No. She's not still with us. But, today is still 106 years from her birth in 1916. My birthday was last month. She turned 39 a month after I was born and I was her only pregnancy. I didn't get a cake for me, so I decided to get...

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Wendy Absolutely! She loved making and eating cake!

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 10 Dec

No. She's not still with us. But, today is still 106 years from her birth in 1916. My birthday was last month. She turned 39 a month after I was born and I was her only pregnancy. I didn't get a cake for me, so I decided to get...

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Wendy Wow! December was a good month! Mom passed in 2008, 19 days after her 92nd birthday. It doesn't seem that long. I still wish I could ask her questions about different things.

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 11 Dec

You know how fun that is when you find money you didn't know about or had forgotten about. Well, I was doing a cleanout of my email inbox one sender at a time when I got to Wawa. I pulled up all the Wawa emails and from A YEAR AGO...

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 10 Dec

No. She's not still with us. But, today is still 106 years from her birth in 1916. My birthday was last month. She turned 39 a month after I was born and I was her only pregnancy. I didn't get a cake for me, so I decided to get...

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 8 Dec

My 2nd great granduncle's brother-in-law stabbed someone to death. The guy was feuding with my 2nd great granduncle, but the brother-in-law decided to take care of it. It wasn't even his fight. He took to the courts to argue that...

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Wendy @RubyHawk Yep!! They're hiding, but I'm gonna find where those pieces go one way or another.

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Wendy @jerzgirl (8704) • United States 8 Dec

My 2nd great granduncle's brother-in-law stabbed someone to death. The guy was feuding with my 2nd great granduncle, but the brother-in-law decided to take care of it. It wasn't even his fight. He took to the courts to argue that...

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Wendy @RubyHawk I enjoy it. It's like being a detective looking for missing people and solving mysteries.

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