I Hope She Doesn’t Want Parole

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آج, Tam and I will be married twenty years. بدقسمتی سے, life in Missouri is 20 سال, so I hope she doesn’t want to apply for parole. I’m hoping she decides to keep me around for a few more years. On July 27, 1996, Tam, my mother and sisters prepared the clubhouse for our wedding later that afternoon. They wisely kept

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Hattie May Story (1896 – 1917)

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My great grandmother Lydia Margaret “Dollie” Story Zimmerman’s youngest sister Hattie May Story was born on August 20, 1896. Hattie was Dollie’s half-sister as she was the daughter of George Washington Story and his second wife Margaret Sweat. Dollie’s mother was George Story’s first wife Malinda Davis. Hattie’s mother Margaret either died in giving birth to Hattie or passed away

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George Washington Story (1843 – 1903)

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My second great-grandfather George Washington Story was born in August 1843 to Gilford Dudley Story and his second wife Nancy Jane Story nee Womack. George was born in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, ایلی نوائے, USA. He was the fourth of Dudley’s and Nancy’s nine children. George Washington Story married his first wife and my second great-grandmother Malinda Davis on November 26, 1863,

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Happy Birthday, نانی!

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Yesterday, my maternal grandmother Alvina M. Ellis nee Mosblech would have been 100 پرانے سال. Born in St. لوئس, Missouri on May 15, 1916, Grandma was the seventh of fourteen children. She married an only child in 1938 and they would have two children, my mom and Aunt Maureen. Grandma had a big influence on my sisters and me because

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Amanda Isabelle “Mandy” کہانی

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Many Zimmermans always believed my great-grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman was married five times. تاہم, Parker was married three times to Victoria Harris, Mellie Bollinger and Lydia Margaret “Dollie” کہانی. It was actually Parker’ sister-in-law Amanda Isabelle “Mandy” کہانی, who was married five times. Mandy was born in Illinois on July 16, 1877 to George Washington Story and Malinda Davis although

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Julius Johannpeter (1875-1961)

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جولیس “انکل جولس” Johannpeter was born in St. چارلس, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “انکل جولس” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “لی” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single

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