ancestors: Clutch Cargo Lips

After writing the post about my great grandmother, Jesse Tyler, I talked to my mother on the phone. She had more information, that I probably knew already, but had forgotten it.
First of all, she identified a couple more photographs on the Old Photographs blog as being her grandmother. Upon careful inspection, I agree with her. [...]

Connections from beyond the grave

I love happy endings. I love connections. This is about both.
When I was a child I found a book that belonged to my grandfather’s mother, Jesse Tyler. I knew it was hers because she’d written her name inside the book. She may even have written her age — I seem to recall that she was [...]

Up North: the series ::The beginning:: Two Rivers

I’ve got Wisconsin in my blood. No, really, I do. My great grandmother’s family settled there after emigrating from Germany sometime before the US Civil War. I’m not sure where the man she married, Silas Koeser, was from, perhaps Michigan since my grandmother was born there, but he eventually moved to Two Rivers, the town [...]