Comments on: Meeting Great-Grandma

By: toc5871

toc5871 — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:23:52 +0000

Growing up, I had all four of my grandparents and even a set of great grandparents. My great grandmother was alive until I became a young adult. I have a 5 generation picture, all women, directly descended through my lovely great grandmother and ending with my eldest daughter. I treasure it.

By: Apple

Apple — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:54:22 +0000

While I don’t remember great grandpa Harry I do have a group picture with us both. He was actually my grandfather’s, step-father and by all accounts a wonderful man. My maternal grandfather died when I was a month old but I did know my other three grandparents.

On my ex’s side, my children met their gr-great-grandmother. My grandchildren’s gr-great-grandmother is still living and I wish my kids would take their kids to visit her more often.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:15:09 +0000

I was lucky enough to have one entire set of great-grandparents when I was born. My O’Hara side great-grandparents died when I was about 4, and I have some (vague) memories of visiting them. I also had a full complement of grandparents when I was born, and still have two – who I have the pleasure of watching with their great-grandkids, my cousin’s children.

By: Becky Wiseman

Becky Wiseman — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:09:18 +0000

Interesting post, Donna. Both of my Dad’s parents were deceased when I was born but I knew Mom’s parents quite well.

One of my great-grandfathers and all four of my great-grandmother’s were living when I was born! And, they all lived within a few miles of where we lived. I know that we “met” but I really didn’t know them and don’t have any memory of them (other than what I’ve been told or learned through research). Depending upon when they died I would have been between the age of two and ten…

By: Greta Koehl

Greta Koehl — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:38:47 +0000

I was able to visit with both of my grandmothers when I was growing up, but both of my grandfathers died before I was born. But the thing that really kills me is that my great-grandmother who is my great brick wall – Susan Elizabeth Smith Brinlee – did not die until I was four years old. Unfortunately, I was never able to meet her.

By: Cheryl Schulte

Cheryl Schulte — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:38:18 +0000

I was very fortunate as my great-grandmother Wellhausen was well known to me. She was my paternal grandmother’s mother and we lived in the same vicinity. I can remember her babysitting for myself and my brother when our parents would go out for the evening. She lived with my great-aunt and I was around her a lot. When I was about 10 I learned to knit and I was busy making cable stitch hats and trying to sell them to the relatives for 50 cents each. I can remember Great Grandma buying one though I doubt she ever wore it. She didn’t pass away until I was 16 so I have many memories of her.

By: GrannyPam

GrannyPam — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:09:48 +0000

I had only one grandparent, a grandmother who died when I was 6, and I never knew any great-grandparents. On the plus side, of my 5 grandchildren, 4 met and remember my mother who was their great-grandmother, and they all know my mother-in-law, who is still living.

I am hoping to meet some or all of my great-grandchildren, but time will tell if that wish is fulfilled.

By: Judith Richards Shubert

Judith Richards Shubert — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:37:13 +0000

Loved this post, Donna. I met only one of my great-grandmothers. She was my mother’s grandmother on her mother’s side of the family. By the time I met her she was sickly and didn’t seem to enjoy children very much. I often wonder if she had cancer or some other lingering disease that we didn’t know about that kept her from this interaction with the little ones in the family.

Also liked your post in response to Randy’s Saturday Night Ancestral Roulette!