Re: Boiled Green Peanuts

On Fri, 1 Nov 2024, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2024-11-01, dsi1 <dsi100@yahoo.com> wrote:
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My wife's family has a history of being a wild and rowdy bunch. Here's
her grandfather's tombstone. The little blurb does not mention him being
a stone-cold killer of rustlers in the old West. Hit the "Read More"
button for more info on this killer cowboy.

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110970422/william-thomas-cantrell

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Phin Clanton married into my wife's Arizona clan. Her Uncle Fay was
named after him. Earps and Clantons didn't mix well.
On a higher plane, my great-great granduncle, Henry Goode Blasdel, was
the first governor of the State of Nevada.
He changed the spelling of his last name, so the hicks out west would be
able to pronounce and spell it.
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Sigh... what roots! And what do I have? A farmer here and a farmer there. It only gets interesting if you go back a 1000 years to the viking era, but then again, nothing can be proven or tracked that far back. =(