In March of 1947 my maternal grandfather set out to write a 17-page memoir, “A Brief Family History; Personal Reminiscences.” That typewritten document, in turn, contained a shorter, similar memoir written in longhand by his father in 1922. My grandfather copied that latter document into his own memoir verbatim. The 1922 document, in turn, contains memories going back to his great grandfather, in the 1700s.
This remarkable document contains anecdotes from the American Revolutionary War onward and includes intriguing glimpses of life in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
I somehow got a copy of this document. I don’t remember the details, but I assume I got it from my mother, who, no doubt, got it from her father (i.e. the author of the document).
I have decided to take it upon myself to make an online copy of this document, which I present here. I split the original into:
- My grandfather’s own memoir: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QUW_9fBzCM7fw2o2toN6e1BRkuTYopyFrBDZeastJg0/edit?usp=sharing
- My great grandfather’s memoir: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15QTdKXSkv8GzK6RXdqJA2Z_v9KTtO0HJHcEbU1jBpFU/edit?usp=sharing or https://tinyurl.com/4w6pzjbh