May 24, 2013

Two Upcoming Centenarian Birthdays In Our Family

Herb Harbeston

Two Hundred Years Of Living We are delighted to say that we’ll have two people in our family turning 100 this year!  First, is my cousin Fran Prantl Harbeston’s widower Herb Harbeston who will turn 100 on May 20th.  Here’s what his son Jack wrote about his father: “When Herb was born, in 1910, the average [...]

How To Find Inventors In Your Family

breedlove-washer

Yesterday, I found out that one of my family members has a new invention. You may hear about it later on this blog, but in the mean time, just for fun, I did a search on the U.S. Patent Office website to see if there are any other inventors in our family. I plugged in [...]

147 Year Old Breedlove Civil War Diary

Wayne Breedlove with JWB diary

The Caretaker Pictured above is my 2nd cousin, once removed, Wayne Breedlove who generously brought the John W. Breedlove diary with him from Florida when he visited us last week. Wayne’s father, Othel Breedlove was the man who ‘rescued’ the diary from obscurity decades ago. Wayne found it in his dad’s camper, tucked away on [...]

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