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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Ray “Cotton” Radcliff lost in WW2
Memorial Day seems an apt day to write about my Grandma Carroll’s brother Cotton who was killed during WW2. Raymond Radcilff was born on the 13th of December 1920 in Mackinaw, Illinois. The fourth of Elmer and Bessie Radcliff’s 12 children, he had bright white/blond hair and was thus dubbed “Cotton” for the rest of……
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Buster Perry lost at Pearl Harbor
On this Memoria Day I thought it only fitting I post about my husband’s Great Uncle Buster. Buster was the youngest brother of Chris’ grandfather, Clifford Perry. His portrait hangs in the living room of Chris’ mother to this day. This story is from the fold3.com: Forrest Hubert “Buster” Perry was born May 27, 1919……
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Rabble Rousing Quakers
While researching my 4x great grandfather, Elias Mott I found his middle name, Hicks. Elias Hicks Mott. It seemed like a strange middle name so I did what I always do, I googled it. Turns out Elias Hicks was a rather famous Quaker who some say caused a schism in the church. Elias Hicks, like……