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. The Dants (and Dantes) are
buried in
Mt
Olivet, in SE DC near the Arboreteum.
My mother was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, land of the Pony Express and of Jesse James. She 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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