This year there occurred a Great Event in the family - Mother acquired her first great-grandchild. Nathan was born April 10, 1996. I think my niece and her husband had something to do with it, but we all have bragging rights.
As you may have guessed from the genealogy page, many of our roots are in the
Washington, DC area
where most of my siblings, my father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather, and
my great-GREAT-grandfather were born. HIS father was born in St. Mary's
County, Maryland, and married a woman from St. Charles County, Md. They moved
to the Federal City in 1799. The Scheeles, on my paternal grandmother's side,
came from Germany to Georgetown in the early 1800's. They are mostly buried in
Holy Rood Cemetery, in Georgetown,
although a few are buried in Oak Hill, near Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown. The Dants (and Dantes)
are buried in
Mount
Olivet, in SE DC near the Arboreteum.
My mother was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, land of the Pony Express and of Jesse James. Her father was a veterinarian who treated farm animals. Later, he helped run the Stuppy Floral Company. Mom attended Barat College in Chicago, and later attended the Chicago Art Institute. While studying art, she also learned to dodge bullets, as this was during the height of the Chicago mobs. She designed a stained glass window which was exhibited in the Chicago World's Fair. Once we were born, she didn't have much time for her art anymore, but she used to tell us children wonderful stories which she made up as she went along.
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