Brinson, Terrell, Shumaker, and May families
THIS WWI LETTER DATED MAY 30, 1918, IS THE FIRST ONE THAT WE KNOW OF THAT DAVID JESSE SHUMAKER WROTE HOME TO HIS FAMILY.
Although he was at Camp Pike, Arkansas, he wrote the letter with a pencil on paper ...
“DOUGHBOY” WAS A POPULAR NICKNAME FOR THE AMERICAN INFANTRYMAN DURING WORLD WAR I.
Therefore, my grandfather, David Jesse Shumaker, was a Doughboy.
In the photo above, David Jesse Shumaker ...
THIS IS PROBABLY THE OLDEST AND MOST FRAGILE HEIRLOOM THAT I’VE EVER HAD MY HANDS ON.
This large, delicate book is a Family Bible that belonged to our Shumaker ancestor Robert Donaldson, who was ...
HENRY HECTOR BRINSON MADE THIS HIGH CHAIR FOR HIS FIRST BABY.
The baby’s name was Hazel Alva Brinson, and she was born on December 30, 1902.
Henry Hector Brinson, known as “H.H.” or ...
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LOOK WHAT I FOUND IN MY MOTHER’S THINGS!
I remember Mother telling me that she had repeatedly asked ...
ADA MAY PARMENTER, DAUGHTER OF ALICE ELVIRA WILSON AND HER HUSBAND MILO DAVID PARMENTER, was born in Beatrice, Nebraska on May 5, 1880. She was ...
RECENTLY I WAS GOING THROUGH A BOX OF STUFF that I brought home from my Mother’s house a while back. Inside were a few things from my Grandmother’s ...