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Cousins, Conversation and “Concepts”

Yesterday we six Slifer women of either sister/first-cousin relationship gathered for the day to converse and catch up. There were two themes we came back to at points as we shared and reminisced on memories of past generations: 1. We all seemed to agree that as we get older, there are new or different questions we wish we could still ask of the older generations that we did not ask as much when we were younger and had opportunity. 2....

Robert Holmes Linger

November 27, 1905 to August 29, 1979; “fall in a bathtub.”1 Married June 9, 1932. They bore 2 sons. *note* ~ As far as I know, I and other family members were told that Robert died in a flash flood in West Virginia. I was told around the time it happened that he went out to get his car and was swept away. I don’t know for certain and this needs some research. The “fall in a bathtub” came from...