Earlier this evening, I was thinking about my grandmother who passed away this last May, and I decided to scroll back through the photos I’d taken the last time I was with her. Well, there among all of the photos I’d taken of her and Clementine, was this one of the telegram that she’d sent […]
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The Swedes of Galesburg
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1944, 1949 census, Anna Jacobson, Army, Atlanta, August Jacobson, Beardstown, census, census data, Dorothy Avery, Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, Galesburg, genealogy, Great Depression, Illinois, immigration, John Lambie, Marilyn Ruth Lambie Tercek, Mark's ancestors, marriage, Mimi Dorothy, Pearl Harbor, Robert Avery, Sweden, swell, telegrams, Violet Jacobson Lambie, WWII 6 Comments
You know those religious fanatics who fled England for America in 1630 with John Winthrop? Well, I’m apparently descended from one of them.
It had never crossed my mind that I might be descended from Puritans. I mean, I knew it was a possibility, as I was aware that members of my family had come over from England, but I didn’t think it was likely. Maybe it’s because I spend so much of my life railing against religious […]
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1630, Arthur Lee Avery, Avery, Beardstown, bibles, Breeches Bible, Bunker Hill, Christopher Avery, Dunham Bible Museum, family history, family values, geneology, Gloucester, Great Migration, Houston Baptist University, Illinois, John Winthrop, Madona, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Miley Cyrus, Pepperell, Pickle, Puritan, Revolutionary War, Schuyler County, Stackpole House, Thomas Avery, William Prescott, WWII 21 Comments