Having gone down the rabbit hole that is ancestry.com over the last year I have accumulated a mountain of information about those that came before me. This is where all that information will be shared.
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Pictures from her Sister
After the war my Grandma Carroll’s sister Ada married John Maehl and they moved out to Los Altos, California. Ada was the closest sister in age to Grandma, 5 years younger. She had joined the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, a branch of the Naval Reserve) during the war and that’s where she……
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Henry Hank Perry
Hank “Henry” Perry was born on June 20, 1883, in Barton, Iowa to David and Margaret Cyphers Perry. David was a farmer, believed to be born in New York, but we don’t have his parent’s names so there’s no record. He married Betsey Camp in Wisconsin in 1857 and farmed there while raising 7 children……
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Marilyn Carroll
Today, July 15th, is the anniversary of the day the sister of my Grandpa Carroll, Marilyn Carroll, died in 2006. As far as I know my grandpa Carroll never knew he had a sister. He always insisted had no interest in speaking to or about his biological father, Patrick Carroll, who abandoned his mother when……