33. Do you have a family heirloom?

What is it and what will you do with it?

From: Jenny McMurray

My Grandmother Alice Harris gave me some of her wedding dishes that she stilled had. I am afraid to use them often because there are only the dessert dishes that she gave me and I don't want any thing to happen to them. I also have a rocking chair that I received for my first Christmas that I have passed on to my children.

From: Lois Rotella

As far as the family Heirloom goes, I don't have any. I do have family photos and those I treasure. I will probably pass them onto my one of my nieces and she probably give them to her daughter.

I am making scrapbooks and making known who the people are and around what year give or that some time when they were taken. I think that is the best inheirtence we have.

From: Philip Harris

I have some old account books that belonged to Henry Harris, son of Moses Harris Jr. I will use some of this information in a book I am writing. He has receipts for pulling teeth, selling vegetables, hay, oats, stage coach rides. He was also a preacher I also have a trunk full of letters between Job Beadleston and his son. The material should go into the Historical Society. The Chapman museum, where Jim and I gave the Moses Harris Grant, never displayed the Grant. For this reason I think the material I have should go into the Warren County Historical Society. I want my children to review this material to make sure that is what I should do.

From: Connie Olson

In fact I have several favorite "Heirlooms". My girls have been given some items already to have and use. The old railroad watches have been distributed already to the grandsons. I did that one Christmas when all of us were together for the holiday. I put the watches into checkbook boxes and then into identical bags. Set them on the table. I had the boys draw numbers. Who ever had #1 that person took a bag first and so on down the line. Whatever bag they picked they had to keep, no swapping or shaking to see what was the heaviest, as some watches were ones with lids and they were older and heavier. I went well and no arguments that way.
I will do the same with the old junk jewelry with the grand daughters. Nothing is really expensive it's more who they belonged to and who wore them as their favorite pieces. I have my mothers, grandmothers, great aunts and my sisters jewelry, also some of mine. I will put the items into check boxes again and identical bags and have them do it the same way the boys did.
The old furniture and old lamps I have will go to my girls, they will draw numbers too but inside the check boxes will be the name of the item/items they get. I ended up with some furniture of my parents and lots of my great aunts and uncles things, they did not have children. So I ended up with it. If there are items left over I'll do it with the grandchildren too. Then they will have things to pass down to there kids.
I feel the way I'm doing it is the fair way and that way there's no arguments. If They want to swap they can but I'm out of it.
When I sell my house and move the girls will have to choose what they would like to have from my things and will do it again.
The furniture and items I was given from my hubby's side of the family will go to his children. We didn't have any children together.

From: Joyce Eggleston

I have several family heirlooms. One is a rocking chair that was my great grandmother and grandfather Osburgs. Daddy gave it to me when Grandma Alice Harris died. I sit in it everyday. Also a kitchen mantel clock dated 1886 that was Grandma Ella Miller's. My things will be split up someday and given to my kids or I'll give to whoever.

From: Heidi MacDuff

Can't think of one off hand