Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Did You or Your Children Know Their Great-Grandparents?


It's Saturday Night –

Time for more Genealogy Fun!


Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to:
1) Did you or your children know their great-grandparents?  
2) Tell us in your own blog post, or in comments to this post, or in comments on Facebook.  As always, please leave a link to your work in Comments.  

My response:
My daughters knew only one of my grandparents. My maternal grandmother, Pansy Louise (Lancaster) Johnston lived until just over a month short of 100 years. That really increased the chance of my children to have known her. I had both of my children at a later age (mid-thirties), while my grandmother had my mother at age 20 and my mother had me at age 20. If I had had a child at twenty and my daughter also at 20, we might have had five generations living at the same time.

I have a photo of four generations: my grandmother, my mother, myself, and my first daughter, taken on her baptism day. Unfortunately, my mother passed away shortly after my second child was born and a four-generation photo was never taken.


When my grandmother died in 2013, my two daughters were twenty-four and twenty-two, respectively. They visited her often, as she lived in the area.



My other three grandparents died before I married. I never met my paternal grandfather, William Cyril Hork, who died in 1967. My maternal grandfather, Tom J Johnston, died in 1973, and my paternal grandmother, Anne M (Sullivan) Hork, in 1979.


Copyright © 2020 by Lisa S. Gorrell, Mam-ma's Southern Family, All rights reserved.

Comments

  1. Linda StufflebeanAugust 2, 2020 at 9:00 AM

    How wonderful that your daughters had so many years to share their lives with Great Grandma. That doesn't happen very often.

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    1. Lisa S. GorrellAugust 2, 2020 at 10:01 AM

      It is helpful when the time between generations is short. Their paternal grandfather was the same age as my grandmother.

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  2. Janice M. SellersAugust 2, 2020 at 9:42 AM

    I love four-generation photos! And your daughters were fortunate indeed to have been able to spend so much time visiting with their great-grandmother.

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    1. Lisa S. GorrellAugust 2, 2020 at 10:00 AM

      Yes, especially since their grandmother had died.

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