Brinson, Terrell, Shumaker, and May families
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Trying to figure out what to call your distant cousin? Even if you ...
EVER FOUND YOURSELF ASKING, “SO WHAT EXACTLY IS A SECOND COUSIN?”OR DEBATING WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A “FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED”?
Use this cousin ...
YOU’VE SEEN THE FIRST VOLUME OF CATHERINE’S ORIGINAL WRITINGS, A BOOK OF POEMS PUT TOGETHER AND TITLED BY CATHERINE. NOW WE GET TO START THE SECOND ...
IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN I FOUND CATHERINE MAY SHUMAKER’S BABY BOOK – WITH MY MOTHER’S BABY DATES ENTERED IN MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDWRITING!
The little book, which measures 4-1/2 ...
SOME OF YOU HAVE ASKED ME RECENTLY WHO OUR DIRECT LINE ANCESTORS – MAY – ARE. AND THAT’S SOMETHING THAT I CAN DO WITHOUT GOING THROUGH TOO MANY ...
THIS CHARMING STORY, “THE FIRST CHRISTMAS I REMEMBER”, WILL CERTAINLY BE ONE OF THE PIECES TO BE INCLUDED IN VOLUME 2 OF “ORIGINAL WRITINGS BY CATHERINE SHUMAKER BRINSON”.
Catherine ...
I HAD TO LAUGH WHEN DAVID WRITES, “MRS. MAY SURE DID PLAY WITH WORDS WHEN SHE COMPOSED THAT LETTER,” IN HIS WWI LETTER OF JUNE 20, 1918!
“Mrs. May” was his mother-in-law, Ada ...
THIS POEM THAT CATHERINE WROTE SHOULD MAKE ANYONE FEEL NOSTALGIC.
After all, who doesn’t look back on the people and places of their childhood and not wonder where it all went?
“WHERE ?” ...
I FOUND AN ARTICLE ABOUT CATHERINE IN THE NEWSPAPER!
More than twelve years ago, in 2008, Catherine Shumaker Brinson took an impromptu trip to Vicksburg, and managed to give an interview for an article ...
CATHERINE WROTE POEMS FOR ALL OCCASIONS, EVEN NORMAL ONES, LIKE THE BIRTHDAY OF HER SISTER-IN-LAW!
Peggy White Shumaker’s 50th birthday was imminent, and Catherine just had to make it extra special ...