tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87241822024-03-12T20:48:33.500-05:00The Time of my LifeMusings Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.comBlogger1072125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-8508602711028951992016-04-29T12:33:00.002-05:002016-04-29T12:33:55.560-05:00A Morning in Our Lives<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-34128500662681720022016-04-28T15:20:00.003-05:002016-04-29T00:00:16.236-05:00A Trip to Benjamin,TexasRaf and I had never been to Benjamin, Texas, and we decided it would be fun to go there on a day trip. It takes about 2 and one-half hours to get to Benjamin from Mineral Wells. We headed up Highway 281 to the blinking light and turned west toward Graford and then northwest to Graham.<br />
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Past Graham the land got as flat as a pancake, and you could see for miles. Lovely, but I wouldn't want to live there. We traveled through Newcastle and Olney, and then we turned west on Highway 114 toward Seymour and on to Benjamin<br />
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As we were driving along, about seven miles east of Benjamin, we came to a lovely little <a href="http://www.txdot.gov/driver/travel/rest-areas-map.html?CFC__target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dot.state.tx.us%2Fapps-cg%2Fsafety_rest_areas%2Fsrahome.htm%3Fsranbr%3D106%26dir%3DX%26title%3DKnox+County+Westbound">rest area</a> dedicated to someone whose last name was Sams or Sam - I didn't write it down. The rest area had been freshly painted and gardened, and it was beautiful. The weather was magnificent, with sunlight and fluffy white clouds after a huge storm the night before. The temperature was 71˚F, and a slight breeze was blowing.<br />
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The rest area is on a spit of land called "The Narrows." Wikipedia says of this land: "<b style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Narrows</b><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">is the name given to a</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Geology">geological feature</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">located 4</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-handbook_1-0" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrows_(Knox_County,_Texas)#cite_note-handbook-1" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">to 6</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tours_2-0" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrows_(Knox_County,_Texas)#cite_note-tours-2" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">miles (6.4 to 9.7 km) east of</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin,_TX" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Benjamin, TX">Benjamin</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">in</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_County,_Texas" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Knox County, Texas">Knox County, Texas</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. It is a narrow crest running east-to-west along a</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogback_(geology)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Hogback (geology)">hogback</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">dividing the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_basin" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Drainage basin">watershed</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">of the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_River" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Wichita River">Wichita River</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">to the north from that of the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazos_River" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Brazos River">Brazos River</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">to the south.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tours_2-1" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrows_(Knox_County,_Texas)#cite_note-tours-2" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-backroads_3-0" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrows_(Knox_County,_Texas)#cite_note-backroads-3" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></sup><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">That is, precipitation falling to the north of the crest will flow into the Wichita River, and thence into the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_of_the_South" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Red River of the South">Red River</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and ultimately the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, while precipitation falling to the south will flow into the Brazos and then directly into the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf of Mexico</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tours_2-2" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrows_(Knox_County,_Texas)#cite_note-tours-2" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Before</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="European colonization of the Americas">white settlers</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">arrived in the area,</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bison" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="American Bison">buffalo</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">were drawn to the spot due to the presence of</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouteloua_dactyloides" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Bouteloua dactyloides">buffalo grass</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and fresh</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(hydrosphere)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Spring (hydrosphere)">springs</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, with the result that the area was known as prime hunting ground to several tribes of</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_Indians" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Plains Indians">Indians</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, including the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Comanche">Comanche</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_(tribe)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Wichita (tribe)">Wichita</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiowa" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache" style="background-image: none; 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From Benjamin we went back through Knox City, not the county seat of Knox County--Benjamin is (and I would love to hear the story of the battle that must have gone on over the county seat!). We ate at a place called Bud's...a greasy spoon that is a favorite of locals, and we returned via Breckenridge.</div>
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What is your passion? What do you do that makes your heart sing and makes you feel you have been creative?<br />
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Do you:<br />
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Bake?<br />
Sing?<br />
Draw?<br />
Sculpt?<br />
Take photographs?<br />
Make furniture?<br />
Write poetry?<br />
Cook gourmet meals?<br />
Paint on fabric?<br />
Quilt?<br />
Play a musical instrument?<br />
Create jewelry?<br />
Garden?<br />
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I could go on and on. Art is what you make of it. If you crochet or knit, you are making art. If you create a stained glass window, you are making art. If you sculpt ice, or tattoo, or design landscaped, you are making art.<br />
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Art is what you make of it. <br />
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Have you created art today? I'll bet you have!<br />
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<br />Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-18272617902379906842016-04-19T15:58:00.000-05:002016-04-19T15:58:46.552-05:00Today is a New Day -- Looking for Round Robin Art!I have been discussing blogs with other friends whom I met while blogging years and years ago. I assume while I have been busy with other things ... my art, my writing, DAR, Mineral Wells Art Association, Women's Club, genealogy, history, and, of course, my church ... blogging has gone by the wayside! <br />
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Some of my friends still blog, but many don't anymore, and some I simply cannot find, even on Facebook! Some still write poetry or do photography and post what they do on Facebook, but I think Facebook it getting too messy - too jammed up.<br />
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Years ago many of us artists shared our art through round robin pass arounds. My oldest daughter was looking at several we have hung on the wall, and she asked how she could become a part of a round robin. <br />
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As of right now, I fear they no longer exist! I simply cannot understand why, so I am searching for other similarly inclined artists who would like to try a round robin.<br />
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If you, out there, read this and are interested, please contact me by commenting below or by emailing me at sue_seibert@att.net.<br />
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I have every intention of blogging at least once a week. If you are interested in genealogy or history, writing prose or poetry, taking photographs, painting or drawing, and you would like to form an online group, let's do it. I mess that connection!<br />
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See ya in the funny papers! Real soon!Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-65878651741199188682015-09-04T14:12:00.000-05:002015-09-04T14:12:11.381-05:00After Two Weeks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In case you've been wondering exactly where Raf and I have been spending a portion of each day for the past two weeks, wonder no more. I was prescribed antibiotic infusions for my ongoing UTI that has been plaguing me since last February. </div>
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Since neither Mineral Wells, nor Weatherford, has an infusion clinic, I had the option of driving an hour into Fort Worth in city traffic each day or going up to Graham, Texas, a forty-minute trip with little traffic.</div>
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And what did I choose? Graham, of course. Our daughter, Christi, recommended Harmony House, and it was an excellent recommendation. The staff is great, and the treatment is very personal and professional, all at the same time.</div>
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Each of my treatments took about thirty minutes, so the driving was the longer problem. I had my picc line installed at Palo Pinto General Hospital (this could have been done in Fort Worth, too, but - no thanks), and it was removed a Harmony House.</div>
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Two weeks of antibiotics makes you wonder what's worse, the disease or the cure, but it's over now, and after a few days of rest - from the antibiotic and the driving - we will both be right as rain.</div>
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I see Dr. Rojas next Wednesday for a follow-up, and, God willing, this will be a thing of the past.</div>
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I thank all of you for your prayers and support. </div>
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God is good!</div>
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Harmony House is located at 1309 Brazos Street, Graham, Texas 76450. The telephone number is 940-549-2223, and the fax number is 940-549-5411. If you need infusions, you can't beat Harmony House!</div>
Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-77133775785899699102015-08-29T11:00:00.001-05:002015-08-29T11:00:40.043-05:00Going OfflineWill be back when infusions are complete...we are just exhausted.Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-17073083345588150652015-08-28T10:35:00.002-05:002015-08-28T10:35:50.868-05:00Skywatch Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Obviously this is not a picture of me, and, anyway, my daily trash bag wrap goes clear to my shoulder, but this is the sort of thing I have to wear every day to bathe. </div>
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I do love a shower daily, but, man-oh-man, this is a pain in the patoot. Poor Raf has to string me up with duct take and masking tape. Then I have to hold my left arm up in the air, and lean it against the side of the shower, while washing all over and shampooing my hair.</div>
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So far, so good, though. I haven't gotten any of the bandage wet yet. The part in the next photo is what I must not get wet, and the covering you can see in the photo is the top of a man's sports sock. They recommended tube socks, but, unfortunately, no one has heard of tube socks - guess they are a thing of the past!</div>
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As you can see from this photo, too, my office/studio/whatever is a mess, as usual, but you get the idea about the size of the bandage.</div>
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One more interesting thing is the shirt I am wearing. I bought this one from <a href="http://www.ullapopken.com/">Ulla Popken</a>, and I liked it so much I bought 3 more when they came on sale - not knowing I would have to have a picc line. This was one more little God-send! These shirts have worked great for each infusion!</div>
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Today will be my seventh day of infusion, then I just have seven to go - God willing. I will have to keep the picc line in, just in case, for about a week while tests are run. Then we shall see.</div>
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God's will be done.</div>
Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-19953474025712767482015-08-26T14:13:00.000-05:002015-08-26T14:19:46.386-05:00Routh Family<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">
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Routh Family, from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Short History of the Family of Routh</span>, by Lt. Col. H. C. Edric Routh, R.A. (retired) of “Little Copse”, Long Sutton, Basingstoke, Hants, England. Published 1953<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Routh family is fortunate in that our Norman ancestor, Richard de Surdeval, was entitled to bear arms and that his descendants followed suit. For, apart from land tenure, heraldry has proved to be the most valuable aid in tracing descent up to the time when parish registers became available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Routh family has one other very valuable source of information which has given them a great advantage in this respect. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII, many of the records were lost or destroyed, but those of the Abbey of Melsa or Meaux (which was originally called Routh Priory) survived almost intact and have been put on record in the British Museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The “Melsa Chronicle”, as it is called, contains records of the family Routh for many generations from 1100 to 1300, a period over which other records are scanty; this was due in large part to the fact that the land on which the Abbey was built was adjacent to the village of Routh and that there were many land transactions between the Cisternian Monks and Meaux the lords of the Manor of Routh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Rouths have always been a prolific family and their pedigree is exceptional for its breadth, i.e., the number of branches shown even from the earliest times. As some of the early branches became extinct through a lack of male issue, other branches and sub-branches were established in England, Ireland, Wales, and other parts of the world. At least six branches are known to have been established in Canada and the U.S.A.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our ancestor Sir Peter de Routh was born about 1300 and was a son of Sir William de Routh of Bainbrigge in Wesleydale, County York, and a grandson of Thomas de Routh who was born in 1265 in the old Manor House of Routh and was in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Sir Peter de Routh’s brother, John “FitzWilliam” Routh founded the Irish branch, and his brother Thomas founded the Leicestershire branch of the Routh family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Since 1039 members of the Routh family have borne seven coats of arms. The arms adopted by Sir Peter de Routh in the 14<sup>th</sup> century: “argent a chevron sable inter three lions’ heads argent” with creast: “out of a mural crown gules a talbot’s head argent” are the arms which our line of Rouths have borne continuously from the time of Sir Peter de Routh to the present day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The first record of a Routh in America was a John Routh who landed in Virginia with a group of immigrants about 1650, but no further record of him or his family has been found. The Rowan County, North Carolina, 1759 Tax List (earliest settlers in entire NW section of North Carolina) listed a Jeremiah “Ruth” and a Zachariah “Ruth”, but neither of them was found on any later record, and it is believed that they are the same Jeremiah Routh and Zaccheus Routh who received English land grants in the Natchez District (which was then a part of British West Florida) of 500 and 1,000 acres on 13 October 1777 and 16 January 1779, respectively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The earliest Routh about whom a family record was found was Lawrence Routh, a member of the Bainbrigge and Hawes branch, who accompanied his cousin, William Penn, to America with his wife and two children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lawrence Routh was born about 1660 in Hawes, married Ann Metcalfe 24 May 1683 in Hawes, and became the father of Thomas (born 9 June 1685 in Hawes) and Lawrence (born 16 Jan 1687 in Hawes). The family left England early in 1688 and landed in Maryland, where Rachel was born 28 Oct 1688 in Easton, Talbot County. The family then moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania, where Francis was born 21 Oct 1690, and the elder Lawrence died 16 Jun 1691. His widow, Ann, later remarried Humphrey Johnson, the family attorney who settled Lawrence’s estate, and had several more children by him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thomas Routh, son of Lawrence, acquired land at “Spaniard’s Neck, Queen Anne county Maryland, and about 1713 married a young widow, Jane Pratt, who had children by her first husband. Thomas and Jane became parents of one son, Christopher Cross Routh, and Thomas died in Queen Anne County about 1738. Christopher Cross apparently never married, or had no issue if he did, for his will dated 17 Feb 1775 and proved 15 Feb 1776 left all of his property to cousins, none with the surname of Routh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Francis Routh, born 21 Oct 1690, youngest son of Lawrence (1660) married a Barbara (surname unknown) about 1714 and was the father of at least five children by her. All available records, including his will dated 30 Sep 1767, indicate that he and his descendants remained in the Chester and Delaware County area of Pennsylvania. A Francis Routh who served with the Pennsylvania troops in the Revolutionary War was apparently a grandson of Francis (1690).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lawrence Routh (1687), (our ancestor, we believe) son of Lawrence (1660), married a Mehitable (surname unknown) and in 1710 moved to Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, where their four sons were born: Thomas (born 5 March 1710), Edward (born 25 March 1713), Zacheus (born 3 December 1717), and Lawrence (born 26 June 1719.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No record has been found of whom the three elder sons of Lawrence (1687) married, or where they settled, although diligent search has been made in civil and church records of that period (including Quaker records). So many records were destroyed by fire and during the Revolutionary War that no proof remains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lawrence Routh (1719), youngest son of Lawrence (1687) and his wife Mehitable, married Elizabeth Smalley on 19 September 1745 in the Piscataway Seventh Day Baptist Church, but there is no record of issue. His father deeded his property in Piscataway to the younger Lawrence shortly before his death about 1752, indicating that the older sons had moved away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The last record of Lawrence Routh (1719) was a notice published by the High Sheriff of Middlesex County in 1750 and again in 1753 offering a reward of five pounds for his apprehension after he escaped from debtors’ prison. This notice described him as a “short, slim fellow, thin faced, and one of his eye lashes is half white; had on when he disappeared a patched corduroy coat, a gray homespun jacket, is a shoemaker by trade, pretends to be a merchant, and did live in Boundbrook.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The first Lawrence Routh (1660) was a friend (Quaker) but none of his sons were found in Quaker records so apparently did not adhere to that faith. Records of the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society of Plainfield, New Jersey, were also search, and no Rouths were found. However, cousins in England believe that 60% to 80% of the Rouths in America were descended from one of more of these sons of Lawrence Routh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lawrence Routh was born about 1660 in Hawes, Yorkshire, England, and died June 16, 1691, in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was married to Lady Anne Metcalfe who was born in 1665 in Hawes, Yorkshire, England and died about 1748 in Chester, Pennsylvania. They had four children:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our ancestor, Lawrence, married Mehitable, who was born in 1709 in England and died in 1752 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thomas Routh, born March 5, 1710, in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Edward Routh, born March 25,1713, in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, and died in 1803.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">An Edward Routh was born in Middlesex County, New Jersey, on March 25, 1713. He married a Miss Hamner/Hammer. They had three children, Joseph, born ca 1747, Isaac, and Jane. There were twelve other Edwards, but none so close to this date. If this Edward is our Edward and he was Jacob’s father, Jacob could have been born between 1731 and 1751 or so, and then could have married Martha Redfern, at age 18-20, in 1769-1770. Isaac was born in 1772. Also a Joseph, son of this Edward, married Mary Redfern, the daughter of James Redfern. According to some papers Mary and Martha were sisters, and logically they could have married the Routh brothers, Jacob and Joseph.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Or our Ancestor Edward married Hannah Hammer/Hamner/Reemer in Rowan, North Carolina, in 1744.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Isaac Routh, born about 1772 in Randolph, North Carolina</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of their children, Isaac was our ancestor. He died in 1840.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He was married to Mary Blakley, born in 1780 in Montgomery County, Virginia, and died in 1840 in Tippecanoe, Indiana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Stephen, born in 1797 in Sevier County, Tennessee, married Sarah Mc Cluskey on July 10, 1817, and died on May 20, 1871. Hezekiah, born July 2, 1798, in Tennessee, married Elizabeth Posey on October 3, 1816, and died December 25, 1876</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jonathan, born July 4, 1800, in Tennessee, married Catherine Barringer on February 22, 1827, and died August 21, 1864</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Isaac, born June 4, 1809 in Tennessee, married Frances Gillihan on October 23, 1831, and died on December 7, 1875</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hugh (who traveled with Levin), born in 1813 in Tennessee, married Mary Elizabeth Brown on July 25, 1839 and died in 1866</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Levin (our ancestor) born March 27, 1816, in Grainger County, Tennessee, married Violetta Brown, born January 6, 1816 in Bedford, Virginia, and died March 12, 1896, in Brown County, Texas, (sister of Mary Elizabeth, Hugh C.’s wife) on August 12, 1838 in Greene County, Missouri, and died September 3, 1890, in Brown County, Texas; I have a copy of their marriage license from Greene County, Missouri.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">William Jeremiah born 1824 in Tennessee, married Hannah Elizabeth Mills on September 2, 1845</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Amazhar M. born April 1840 in Greene County, Missouri, died February 11, 1925, married Mary E. Byrd on December 12, 1866. Amazhar’s second wife was Rebecca Manley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Robert Devon (our ancestor) born February 28, 1854 in County, Texas, and died December 2, 1944, in Brown County, Texas. Robert Devon (R D or Uncle Bob) was our ancestor. He married three times. The first was to Rosa/Rosie Cane/Cain/Crane in Jack County, Texas. She died in 1898. He also married Martha J. Esters, 1877-1967, and Jennie Bolton (Aunt Jennie).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lord Byron (Kaiser) born December 15, 1897, in Jack County, Texas. He married Hattie Ethel Bowden on September 15, 1901, and died on November 13, 1964.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lora Day (Bee) who was born January 14, 1882, in Jack County, Texas. She is our ancestor. She married Marvin Tilden (M T or Dock) Bowden, December 124, 1905, in Dublin, Texas. She died March 23, 1959, in Dublin, Texas.</span></div>
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<br />Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-54555902318521266462015-08-24T18:27:00.001-05:002015-08-24T18:27:18.967-05:00'Member? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“You ‘member Uncle Bob Routh, don’t ya? He rode with the Texas Rangers down in Brown County durin’ the Indian troubles in the 1870s, right?” </div>
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“Yup, he did that, and he sure had hisself an opinion on most anything you wanted to ask him ‘bout. Even give his thoughts to the <i>Brownwood Bulletin</i> on more’n one occasion, and let me tell you, he was somethin’, that ole man. He was somethin’.”</div>
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“Shoot, I ‘member when he whupped that preacherman from here to yonder. Rode his hoss right into the little Methodist Episcopal church, roped the feller, and drug him right outside in front of God and everbody. Never did understand ‘xactly what happened there, but the rumor was that ole circuit rider had done messed with Uncle Bob’s oldest daughter, Mz. Bee. Guess the reverend deserved the horse whippin’ he got, and that sure put the icin’ on the cake far as stories about ole Uncle Bob is concerned.” </div>
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“Least-wise Mz. Bee married that Bowden boy what owned the furniture store. Hope she had a happy life, but I heard she never was right after that, whatever that was.”</div>
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“Say, do you ‘member that time, back ‘bout 1875, when Dick Cheatham and Dick Smith run ‘crost that Comanche raidin’ party what kilt the whole of Bill Williams’ family whilst he was in town buyin’ supplies and what not?”</div>
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“Yup, ole Bill was one of them fellers what believed Comanches was jest misunderstood, peaceable folk with not a mean bone in their bodies. Otherwise he’d never ‘ve left Mz. Williams and those two little mites there without some sort of protection. Why I heard tell he didn’t even leave her with no gun!”</div>
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“That’s what I heard, and when he come home to his ranch, ‘member it was up on the Jim Ned, he found poor Mz. Williams a dyin’, one of the children dead, and the other poor little thing probably carried off by them blood-thirsty Injuns. Never heard from her again, ‘s the way that story goed.”</div>
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“Times back then was dangerous, that’s for shore! Times is better now.”</div>
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“Well, maybe so, but ole Bob Routh’s still a purty dangerous feller, and he’s, what, 91 or so. Sure wouldn’t want to be held in jail there with him the jailer and Mz. Jenny cookin’ the food. Heard she’s one terrible cook and meaner ‘n a snake on Sunday, you ask me. But not meaner Uncle Bob!”</div>
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“Yeah, well, back to that raidin’ party o’ Comanches. ‘member that there was the last Injun fight in Brown County, or so they say. Took place, it did, up on Clear Creek, when Smith and Cheatham run acrost them Injuns. Think it was right after they’d kilt Mz. Williams, but I knows for certain sure they didn’t have no children with them.”</div>
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“Yup, that fight didn’t last too long neither, and, ‘cept for one or two, all the Injuns was kilt, and Smith brought one dead Injun back into Brownwood and done set him up in the winder of Mr. Dave Hutchinson’s blacksmith shop. They kept him there for a few days, ‘til the stink was God Almighty awful. Then all the businessmen in town took that body out on the old Comanche Road and stuck it up in the big ole liveoak as a warnin’.”</div>
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“Oh, yeah, I ‘member what happened then. The body finally fell outtin’ that tree down onto the ground and some of them roamin’ hogs done et it up. Think that showed them Comanches who’s boss. Never were no more raids after that.”</div>
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“But do you ‘member the time that old man, can’t ‘member his name, who kilt once too many times. Shot his brother-in-law, carved a second notch on his gun. Why, I hear tell he shot that feller in the mornin’ and went to a church picnic that afternoon. Onliest thang was, Uncle Bob and ole Captain James found out all ‘bout it, and they shore went down to that picnic and arrested that old man. 77 he was, too, but meaner a snake. Believe they hanged him before the next Sunday. ‘course, Uncle Bob weren’t ‘fraid to bother church people, ‘specially after he horse whipped that preacher man.”</div>
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“Now, that Captain Jason James was a fine man, weren’t he? Didn’t take nothing offen no body. Not even ole Bob Routh! Why, you know ole Captain James may ‘ave been a member of Quantrill’s Raiders. After all, his first cousin, Jesse, and Jesse’s brother, Frank, were both part of that band with the Youngers and all.”</div>
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“Yup, they surely was, but I don’t know about Captain James. Mean as he was, he was always on the right side of the law, if you know my meanin’, and him and Uncle Bob was in some mighty scary situations, but they’s always after them Injuns or some other sorta bad guys.”</div>
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“One thing is for shore, Captain James looked ‘xactly like his cousin, Jesse. Why they coulda been twins! And he always carried a photograph of Jesse in his shirt pocket. He told Uncle Bob onced he hoped he’d never have to go after Jesse, but I ‘spect he would if he hadda.”</div>
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“ ‘member the time James went down to Pecan Bayou to arrest that feller who was camped down there? Believe that feller was a horse thief or some such, but Captain James went alone, way those Ranger always do.”</div>
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“Yup, he got down there to the Bayou, and the feller seemed all peaceable and such. He told James he’d surely ride into town with him, and he asked James if he coulda got his coat outta his wagon.” </div>
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“I ‘member. James was bein’ particularly nice that day, I guess, and he didn’t cuff him or nothin’, let the feller go into the wagon, and the next thang he knowed the feller reached under the wagon seat, pull out his hand gun, and fired at James.” </div>
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“Yup, and Uncle Bob come along about then and carried James back to town. James stayed at that roomin’ house over on Fisk what was run by Mz. Hattie Bowden, and it took him a few months afore he was back in the saddle and off rangerin’ again with Uncle Bob.”</div>
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“Well, one thing’s for shore. Uncle Bob were one interestin’ feller. Wish I knowed him better, but when I was a little ‘un I was plum skeert to death of him. And I shore don’t want to get to know him from a jail cell!”</div>
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Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-54546364923875732622015-08-23T19:25:00.001-05:002015-08-23T19:25:41.548-05:00Why Do I Believe?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why do I believe that Jesus is the Holy One of God? Of course, at age 73, I have certainly made up my own mind, but because of the people in the photo above, Rose and John Ficke, my parents, I was brought up in a household, a church, a community, a family that believes that Jesus is the Holy One of God! Because of this I have never doubted that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of us all!</div>
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Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-15726497413094894972015-08-22T11:26:00.000-05:002015-08-22T11:26:09.677-05:00New Adventure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was done yesterday so that I can have 14 straight days of infusion antibiotic. There is no pain and only mild discomfort - mostly from the band that is holding the tail close to my arm - and the act of bathing without getting the tail-end wet is another thing. I covered the arm with a trash bag. Now I smell like trash bag deodorant!<br />
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I am having these infusions in Graham, Texas, as Harmony House, and it sure beats driving through Metroplex traffic each day.<br />
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The Picc was installed yesterday at our local hospital. Then we drove to Graham, 50 miles away, for the infusion which lasted about 45 minutes. Harmony House is a nice facility, and they people who own it are very good.<br />
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I will endeavor to keep up with my writing, etc., although it is a little uncomfortable to type.<br />
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We are blessed with all the medical advances that make this sort of thing possible! <br />
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God is good.Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-39061390486556795872015-08-21T07:12:00.000-05:002015-08-21T07:12:34.711-05:00Skywatch Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, here we go again! Or really for the first time. <br />
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I will be going to Harmony House Infusion clinic in Graham, Texas, for ten days of once a day antibiotic infusions. We will drive back and forth.<br />
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Palo Pinto General Hospital will install a picc line in my arm so that I won't have to be stuck every day, and they are hoping that this will finally get rid of the e coli bacteria I have been carrying around since February. <br />
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I will be so extremely happy to get this over with! I am thankful to have found a place sort of local, at least not in the city, where I can go and get this done. Our daughter, Christi, knows the folks who run Harmony House and has led the way in our finding out where to go.<br />
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I am being referred by Dr. Rojas of the Tarrant County Infectious Disease clinic and by Carla Hay-Perdue, my nurse practitioner.<br />
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God bless you all. God is good!Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-55229261162187965042015-08-19T09:55:00.001-05:002015-08-19T09:55:10.103-05:00Wordless Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-79124598594336436392015-08-18T11:57:00.002-05:002015-08-18T11:57:55.865-05:00A Day in the Life of a Retiree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yesterday morning I got up before 8, as now that I'm retired I find I can't sleep past 8! Whoever get up first unloads the dishwasher from the night before and feeds the cat - feeds the cat first, as a matter of fact, for else!</div>
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I then bathed, and together with the cat who always sits with me when I read my Bible, I read a few chapters of Jeremiah. I am slowly reading my way through the Bible, as I have never done that. The Apocryphal books, included.</div>
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Then I came into my office to write the next chapter of my new book, Murder on Dodson Prairie, and then I put up a short blog and wrote some about genealogy.</div>
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Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-36684046763121304862015-08-17T11:02:00.002-05:002015-08-17T11:18:56.095-05:00Banners in Texas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This photo is from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TracesofTexas?fref=photo">Traces of Texas</a>, a Facebook page, with the following quote: Traces of Texas reader Doug Banner sent in this incredible photo of John Wesley Banner (seated) on his 100th birthday in Comanche, Texas. This was taken in 1920. John Wesley is surrounded by seven of his nine children. He passed away at the age of 103 and is buried in Comanche.</span></div>
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My grandson, who is a policeman in the D/FW Metroplex, had a friend send him this photo. It is of a group of people whose last name is Banner, as is my grandson's. I was able to find information on <a href="http://ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com</a> about the old man, John Wesley Banner (guess he was a Methodist!). As you can see I discovered that he was born in Virginia. My grandson's people came from Banner Elk, North Carolina, and settled first in Jacksboro and then in Fort Worth. As they married some of my McAnally family who came from Virginia, there may be a clue there.</div>
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John Wesley Banner was born on 12 Jun 1820 in Scott County, Virginia. He married Martha Jane Broadwater (1822-1884) in Scott County on 20 Dec 1842. His son William (1848-1935, seen right in photo) was born in Aug of 1848 in Virginia. His wife died 18 Jan 1884 in Comanche, Texas, at the age of 61. They had been married 41 years. He died 1 Dec 1923 in Comanche and is buried there.</div>
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My grandson wants to know more about these Banners, so I am reaching out to anyone who might know this family. If you do, please add a comment or contact me on Facebook. Your help would be greatly appreciated.</div>
Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-56089786827660929362015-08-16T22:22:00.003-05:002015-08-16T22:22:33.241-05:00Praise God<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-16891426467771042392015-08-15T15:50:00.001-05:002015-08-15T15:50:13.838-05:00Flallopy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As Barbara Good said to Tom Good on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life_(1975_TV_series)">The Good Life (England) or Good Neighbors (USA)</a>, today I am fallopy!</div>
Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-88003711665601013342015-08-14T11:22:00.000-05:002015-08-14T11:22:07.549-05:00Skywatch Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-31574393621600147732015-08-13T12:19:00.002-05:002015-08-13T12:19:52.203-05:00The Problem With Education<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today our local paper explained in great detail that the school district, or ISD as we call them here in Texas, has a big problem because my former campus has low STAAR test scores. Humph!</div>
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The reason, in my humble opinion, that many schools have low standardized test scores is because they have standardized tests which teachers have to teach to, rather than the trained teachers teaching! Leave them alone and let them teach! The teachers have to spend so much time being accountable to the state that they are no longer accountable to the students - to teach them reading, writing, and arithmetic!</div>
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Also, I believe that because many parents and administrators do not back their teachers, but, rather, send them to many, many extra days of training to teach them how to teach what they have been teaching for low these many, the kids are permanently injured, and teachers are no longer given free rein to teach in order to benefit each child! After all, unlike what the government thinks, all kids are NOT the same.</div>
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Finally, if prayer and God were brought back into the classroom and morality, rather than "if it feels good, do it", was the order of the day, we would have far less violence and far more learning.</div>
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If each teacher would, and was allowed, to look at each individual student and think, "what can I do to help this child be a productive adult?", whether he's the highest or lowest in the class, the world would be a far better place in which to live.</div>
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Don't blame the teachers and principals at Houston Elementary, folks, blame the administration, the state, the government! And change it. </div>
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Government, tear down this wall of hazards to education! And do it quickly!</div>
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I have always been extremely interested in my grandmother's family, the Routh family. Grannie is on the bottom row, on the right. Her name was Lora Day Routh Bowden, and she was known as Bee because her brother, the one standing on the left of their father, could not say baby when she was born, so he called her Bee.<br />
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The Rouths were so interesting. They were pioneers. The old man in the middle, my great-grandfather, Robert Devon Routh, was a Texas Ranger during the Indian Wars and died as the jailer of the Brown County, Texas, jail at the age of 94.<br />
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I have begun a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/942563205790367/">Routh Family Facebook Page</a>. If you are a Routh, interested in genealogy, please join us!Sue Seiberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15079271353907261500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724182.post-20673416038925699502015-08-10T20:29:00.000-05:002015-08-10T20:29:49.276-05:00Dead or Alive in 1940?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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OK, here's the deal. My mother's brother was born and died in 1907. However, in 1940 the United States Census shows him living with his parents in Brown County, Texas. Can anyone explain this to me?</div>
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