The Dilemma

This is the time of year I really start to feel pulled in different directions, Christmas. But doesn't everybody have that feeling this time of year. There is so much to do:  shop, plan meals, decorate, bake. Honestly, I don't know which to tackle first. So I didn't. Instead, I tackled my genealogy to do list. What started me down that totally unrelated road? Well, I came across a to list item that I put on my list of things to do before we moved from Michigan to our temporary home in a condo here in Tennessee. Well, we moved out of that condo in 2008. I have all my files (I hope) where I can get at them, and I had about ten items that required me to look at research I did in the 1990s. Wow. So I started the task of cleaning up my to do list. Then I discovered I had inadvertently added some of my obituaries from Lexington, Kentucky newspapers to my Allen County Public Library list. I have no idea how that happened, but those were easily transferred. There were several items that I had found over the years, but never removed from the list. All in all, I cleaned out 69 items.

I really wish I could get that enthusiastic about putting up the tree. But since the boxes are all in my living room, I guess I better get started.

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Thriller Thursday - Calvin Percival

DEATH NOTICE FROM THE OCTOBER 27, 1810 "WESTERN SPY":  On Saturday, 20th instant, as two young men were crossing the Ohio, opposite Lawrenceburgh, in a craft loaded with sand, it sunk and they were both unfortunately drowned. Their names were Calvin Percival, second son of Doctor Percival of that town, and Sampson Smith, an active industrious carpenter, formerly resident in this place.
 
Calvin was the brother of my great-great-great grandfather John Stearns Percival. At the time of his death he was 15 years old.
 
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Wedding Wednesday - Bowman and Dickerson

Robert Todd Bowman and Elizabeth Dickerson were married in Winchester, Clark county, Kentucky on December 1, 1835. Robert was the son of William Bowman and Nancy Todd Parker and therefore was my second great granduncle. He died about 1866 possibly in Covington, Kentucky; Elizabeth died about 1889 probably in Kansas City, Missouri.

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