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.

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