God Weeps For His Team!

The Cowboys lost. There is a standing joke about why there is a hole in the top of the Cowboys stadium - so God can watch his favorite team. Makes sense, right? Well, it is raining today for one reason only - God is weeping because the Patriots beat the Boys squarely 48-27. Surprisingly the Saints won - made my Dad happy, except for LSU lost!

I have been working on my family's genealogy for years now it seems and today I found that my Grandfather's sister was married before to a man whom we did not know, we knew of the second husband. She died in 1962 and her daughters are spiteful (according to my mother) and so I have made no attempt to contact them about their parentage. Ancestry.com is very helpful if not frustratingly so sometimes and I found her and the second husband's marriage cert. which shows a maiden and married name. So, I have been trying to locate more information....

Here is a picture of my Grandfather and his sister in Missouri as children. I love old pictures of my family. Their father was about 50 when he married their mother and so he was about 52-54 when the kids were born and soon died afterward. My Great-grandmother was young still and now widowed. But not long after she remarried and then died herself. The kids were taken across the country to live with the step-father's relations and treated very poorly. My Grandpa left home at 13 and joined a motorcycle gang and no one is sure exactly what happened to Lucille until my Grandpa Bill sought her out as adults. She was an alcoholic and died from in at a young age. One would have to assume she was abused due to her vices and unhappy disposition. After she died her children waited a few days (almost a week if I recall) before contacting my Gpa. My mother was only 12 at the time and had only met her aunt once. It is a shame really, what happened to them but before modern medicine life was often tragic.

Though of the day: "Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens

Wise words.