The Accidental Genealogist has posted blogging prompts for every day in March to help bloggers have ideas for Women's History Month. The original post with all the prompts can be found HERE. I am behind but will use this post to catch up because some of the answers I have are short.
March 15 — Write a six-word memoir tribute to one of your female ancestors.
She loved us all any way
I wrote this tribute to my great grandmother Alice Wilson Rohrer. My grandfather's mother died a week after he was born and later my great grandfather married who I knew as my great grandmother Alice. We called her Grandma Al. She claimed us all. And so did her family. I never knew her sister was not my blood aunt till I was an adult. In fact it was her half sister. My great grandmother was illegitimate and her mother married a Mr Hiner and had other children so her family was the Hiner family. So much like my own family were the Hiners that I have included them in my family tree because they are an important part of my family history.
March 16 — If you could have lunch with any female family member (living or dead) or any famous female who would it be and why? Where would you go? What would you eat?
We answered this question for Saturday Night Genealogy Challenge a few weeks back and my post can be found HERE.
March 17 — Social Butterfly? What social organizations or groups did your mother or grandmother belong to? Sewing circle, church group, fraternal benefit society or lodge? Describe her role in the group.
As I child I don't think I was too much into paying attention to what adults were up to but as I try to remember I can remember my mother having bridge group. And I can remember when I was in high school she went to meetings for the Nursing Association. Her mother I do not remember doing anything socially but she must have. My father's mother I remember she took me to one of the those animal associations - maybe the Elks - and we played bingo. I won five dollars. After bingo was over we went out to the car and the tire was flat. About five men volunteered to help my grandmother change the tire. She was very pretty even as an older woman. My great grandmother, Grandma Al, who I mentioned above was always having women over to play cards. I think they played canasta. And she attended Eastern Star meetings. She had a cross from Eastern Star that if you held it up to the light you could look in the center of it and read the Lord's Prayer.
March 18 — Shining star: Did you have a female ancestor who had a special talent? Artist, singer, actress, athlete, seamstress, or other? Describe.
The story goes that when my great grandmother came to stay at my great great grandfather's - the one that died a week after my grandfather was born - that all she had was a sack of clothes and a guitar slung over her shoulder. I have the guitar now. I assume she knew how to play it. So she must have had some musical talent.
March 19 — Have you discovered a surprising fact about one of your female ancestors? What was it and how did you learn it? How did you feel when you found out?
I found out that my great great grandmother died in Ohio. I thought she died in Indiana since that is where her grave is. But she was visiting her daughter in Ohio when she died and her body was returned to Indian for burial. And since her daughter was buried in Indiana too I didn't realize she ever lived in Ohio. I found the death certificate in Ohio records. When I discovered this I felt like I had learned not to make assumptions and to be more open to possibilities in order to not miss information.
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