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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles

Today is the Day I’m Going to End This

September 14, 2023
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Dreams, Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

If you honestly believed you were under a generational family curse–an actual pronounced or written, intentional curse–what would you do to put an end to it? As Christians, we claim to believe in the supernatural realm. Our very faith rests on a confession of belief that Jesus Christ of Nazareth suffered in the spiritual realms to reconcile us to God. We confess belief that the physical, manifested symbol of that spiritual work was evidenced in His bodily resurrection, and that...

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To Teach is To Touch a Life Forever (A Conversation Thanks to John and Harmon)

July 30, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Both a grandfather and a great-grandfather of mine were pretty much contemporary colleagues of sorts– school teachers in the early 1900’s. My father’s maternal grandfather, Harmon Grimm, taught school school near Trego, Maryland. I do not know what ages or any details, but a family member said he also had a side hustle selling cut timber. My mother’s father, John Curry Linger, was a school teacher in Buckhannon, West Virginia. He also managed a family homestead and it is reported...

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She Made Her Own Shroud

May 16, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Personal Writings, Writings

Mary Dalton (Williams) would be my maternal great great great grandmother. I’ve been reading through various family history in connection with some of my writings here. I was contemplating that one of the things my great grandmother (Margaret Jane Kennedy Carter) most recalled when she gave contributions to this extensive collection of genealogy and stories, was that her grandmother made her own shroud. Out of curiosity I did a quick search on making your own shroud to see if it...

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Meet Carter Linger

May 16, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

I first heard about my mother’s brother Carter and his untimely death from my mother. As I recall, whenever she spoke of Carter she talked about him having diabetes, being “rolly polly and fat” (I have her on a home video mentioning this in an offhand remark) and his death being caused by him falling off a rocking chair from a porch. I believe my mother also said he was drunk at the time of his fall. At other points,...

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How I Fell in Love With My Mother

May 14, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

It took me nearly sixty years, but I think I finally have fallen in love with my mother. I will never be as much in love with my mother as I was with my father, but I had an unusual breakthrough. What woman isn’t ‘in love’ with their mother? It’s why they shop together and bake together, and share women stories and woman jokes. It’s why they fix each other’s hair and eat chocolates together and put on nail polish...

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Various Thoughts About Generational Blessing and Cursing

May 9, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

I’ve been thinking on these things for quite awhile. Those who have been in various Christian settings have likely heard references to a number of scriptures that indicate that both spiritual blessing (legacy) and spiritual cursing (legacy) can flow through families in a variety of ways. It feels daunting in my mind to lay out too many different scriptures (let alone connect them to family specifics) that one should seek to better understand regarding these things, so I will try...

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My Great-Grandfather Was Literally Pierced Unto His Death During Christmas of 1893

January 23, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

Jacob Albert Carter was born in 1850 and died on December 27, 1893 at the young age of forty-two, leaving behind his widow (my mother’s mother, Margaret Jane Kennedy Carter) and eight children ranging in age from six to nineteen years old. Jacob was a farmer, of thin build and medium height and “had a mustache.” I suppose this might describe a lot of his contemporaries in Braxton County, WV. The general account of Jacob’s untimely death is as follows:...

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Jacob Albert Carter

January 23, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles

Jacob Albert Carter was born in 1850 and died on December 27, 1893.1 MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS LITERALLY PIERCED UNTO HIS DEATH DURING CHRISTMAS OF 1893 __________1Pg. 24-25, The CARTER, ALKIRE, KENNEDY, WILLIAMS and Related Families, by Judge James M. Carter, published 1977....

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Someone Confused Rat Poisoning With Baking Powder

January 15, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

My maternal great-great grandfather, Thomas Kennedy, came to the United States around age 25 which likely dates his immigration to 1846. Like many in this country, our ancestors came from Ireland during the Potato Famine. This famine began in 1845 and lasted until 1852. According to his daughter, Margaret Jane Kennedy (my great grandmother), her father married five years later. Thomas’ own father had died when he was a young boy and he didn’t much remember him. At some point...

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The Carter Family Overview, History and Memorabilia

January 9, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles

The following genealogy is adapted from the book The CARTER, ALKIRE, KENNEDY, WILLIAMS and Related Families, by Judge James M. Carter, published 1977. The Family of Jacob Albert Carter and Margaret Jane Kennedy (Carter)1 Jacob Albert Carter, (born September 20, 1850; died December 27, 1893), son of Robert Marshall Carter and Catherine Rebecca Alkire (Carter)2 married Margaret Jane Kennedy (born November 29, 1851; died March 20, 1939), daughter of Thomas Kennedy and Sarah (Sally) Williams. They were married on March...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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