I wouldn’t say that I’m necessarily giving up on the idea of posting longer pieces about specific, god-awful things that are happening in the news. Knowing myself, I think it’s likely that, in the very near future, something will happen that will cause me to go back to my old ways, and spend an entire […]
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Mark’s Covid Diary… May 19, 2020
Posted in Health, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1918, 1918 flu, 1924, 209 Pearl Street, Arlo, Buster Keaton, chin curtain, Cleve Wise, COVID-19, Curtis Florian, dragonflies, flu, Grover Cleveland Wise, Kentucky, masks, Mattie Belle Wise, Minnie Wise Florian, Minor Branch, pandemic, pneumonia, public health, sex, sex for reproduction, Sherlock Jr., Totally Quotable Arlo, WHO, Woodlake, World Health Organization 14 Comments
Finding my family’s version of “Little House in the Big Woods”
Quite often, I find myself thinking things like, “If not for this one thing having happened, I likely wouldn’t be where I am today.” I wonder, for instance, if my father hadn’t gotten into an accident that kept him from shipping off for Vietnam, how my life might have turned out differently. Or I start […]
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1900, 1918, 1918 flu, adoption, Bessie Roberts Wise, biscuits, Carrie Wise, census, Charles Maynard, Church of Christ, Cleve Wise, crackers, Curt Florian, Curtis Florian, Edgar Emerson Wise, Edgar Wise, family history, farming, feather bed, feathers, flu, food preservation, foster parents, geese, geneology, Georgetown, Gladys, Gladys Florian Phillips, Grover Cleveland Wise, Hattie Wise, horses, Jefferson Davis Wise, John Calhoun Wise, Kate Wise, Kentucky, land bounty, land warrant, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods, log cabin, Ma Florian, Mark's ancestors, Matilda Gill Wise, Mattie Belle Wise, Mattie Wise, midwife, Mimi Gladys, Minnie Florian, Minnie Wise, Minnie Wise Florian, Minor Branch, Minorsville, natural childbirth, old maid, orphans, Owen County, Pa Florian, poverty, public education, Sarah Catherine Emerson Wise, Scott County, smoking, spring house, Stamping Ground, subscription school, teaching, tobacco, War of 1812, Wise, Woodlake, Wythe Thomas Wise 10 Comments
Introducing my great, great, great grandfather, Joseph Phillip Florian
This, I’ve been told, is my great, great, great grandfather, Joseph Phillip Florian. From what I’ve been able to ascertain, he was born in Poland on November 22, 1831, and arrived at the Port of New York on June 9, 1840 aboard a ship from Le Havre, France called the Robert Parker. [This would have […]
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1840, 1867, 1931, Anna Skokan, big families, Castle Garden, Civil War, Curtis Florian, DNA, Elizabeth "Betty" Brock, Elizabeth Brock, Ellis Island, family tree, Florian, France, genealogy, immigration, Jacobus Florian, Joseph Phillip Florian, Kentucky, Le Havre, Mark's ancestors, Mary Bell Florian, Ollie "Ettie" Florian, Peaks Mill Christian Church Cemetery, Poland, Robert Parker, Russia, slavery, Slovakia 53 Comments