You stopped by and picked up tax papers from
Andy, had lunch with Kim at Potbelly’s at Polaris before her hair appointment,
then stopped by Cathy and Tod’s for a good hour or so chat before stopping at
Schneider’s for donuts for breakfast. – Amorella
1905 hours. We had a good drive both ways and tonight we okayed the deck
floor, steps and built in benches being refurbished with composite boards. We
are hoping this project will be completed before our May trip to Florida. It
feels good to actually moving ahead with some of our ‘updating’ the house
plans. We watched NBC News and when Carol finishes her work online we will have
a snack supper and watch some DVRed material, then call it a night.
2203 hours. I surprised myself and completed the
near final draft of the Brothers 9 segment. I completely changed the last few
paragraphs.
So you did. Drop it in for safekeeping then
post. – Amorella
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Brothers 9 © 2015 nfd
Richard
has two card tables as a makeshift desk against the west wall of the study this
cold January day. His laptop is running the latest Ancestry software offline.
“What
do you have on our Bleacher sisters?” asks Robert.
.
Richard
moves the software through three generations. Here, take a look. Rob sat at the
computer screen:
Hobert
White Bleacher (1770-1859)
Priscilla
Quiller (1768-1825)
Hobert
Bleacher, a smithy, raised his family in the Mountain Falls section of
Frederick Co. In 1799, Hobart and Priscilla bought tracts of land in both
Shenandoah and Frederick Counties. His two sons, James and Jason, traded
horses, taking them from Virginia to Ohio. Much of this operation took place
before 1853, and by 1854, they ran out of good horses from Virginia so James
purchased land in Delaware County, Ohio near Center Village and sent for other
members of his family. Shortly after moving Jason died and was buried in Hunt
Cemetery, Delaware County.
James
Mark Bleacher (1799-1877) Elizabeth
Sherman Vonderbundt (1794-1864)
James
was a successful local horse trader. His spouse, Lizzy, was his first cousin.
Their horse farm was on the east side of Center Village. They had a daughter
Mary Elizabeth and a son, Robert.
Robert
Mason Bleacher (1832-1922)
Sarah
Francis Wadermann (1839-1913)
Robert
was born 19 April 1832, and became a horse trader like his father. He inherited
half of the farm, when his father James died in 1877. The other half of the
farm went to Mary Elizabeth and her husband, Joseph Randolph Grant. His wife Sarah
was born in Franklin County, Ohio on the 7 December 1839 and died 13
May 1913.
Carl
Tuller Bleacher (1864-1949)
Cynthia
W. Workman (1866-1946)
Carl
was born 18 February 1864 and was a farmer and harness maker. He sold his land
on 31 July 1899 and moved onto an established farm on Freeman Road north of
Riverton. Carl died of natural causes on 7 October 1949. Cynthia was born 23
September 1866 in Riverton and died 2 March 1946 two houses north from where
she was born on the west side of Vine Street here in Riverton. Her father,
Walter Workman was the town doctor and emergency veterinarian from time to
time.
George
Allen Bleacher (1895-1974)
Leonora
Von Kilmer (1898-1968)
Connie
and Cindy knew their grandparents and even have some pictures of themselves
with their great-grandparents, Carl and Cynthia. The girls were four or five
and remember the farm, which in 1950 was sold to a neighbor who rented it until
the mid-sixties. Part of the farm, especially near the woods, became a rather
large housing development. George and Leonora are buried next to each other on
the newer developed east side, over near Knox and Walnut Streets in the College
Cemetery.
David
John Bleacher (1918-2001)
Donna
Roland Bleacher (1918-2002)
Connie
and Cindy’s parents. Their father was born on 8 December 1918 and he died 12
January 2001. He was a pharmacist and had two pharmacies. One, on the north at
the edge of old Uptown, and another on the south near Dempsey Road. Donna was
one of the town’s librarians for thirty years. She was a very vibrant woman and
was a great storyteller. Their father was an astute businessman as well as
being an excellent and caring pharmacist. Both are also buried near his parents
in John Knox Cemetery. Donna’s parents are buried in the old north section.
‘
Rob
comments, “The Bleacher’s have been here about as long as we Greystone’s have.”
“We’ve
heard the family stories, but I like to actually read them for personal
solidification,” says Richard earnestly.
“Do
you have all the stories? I can’t remember who told what. Grandpa got bit by a
water moccasin and spit the poison out, and Grandma fell off a hay wagon as a
kid and broke both her arm and leg.”
“I
haven’t got to putting all that together in one place. I have two older Apple
oriented software programs, MacFamily Tree and Reunion so with Ancestry finally
coming up with a good software program for the Mac I thought it was time to
update.”
Rob
smiles wickedly, “I think I remember a story about Grandpa Greystone dating one
of the Bleachers girls in his youth.”
Both
laugh. “That would have been weird,” whispered Richard more shyly than he would
have expected.
Robert
picks up on the tonal queue and continues, “What if he put her to bed and she
got pregnant and married someone else? Nobody would have known.”
“Sound
like a soap,” says Richard defensively.
“Who
knows, Richie?”
Richard
smiles more relaxed, “Remember the old joke – ‘everyone knows who their mother
is, but only mother knows who the father is, and sometimes she’s not so sure.’”
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2208
hours. I really don’t know if it in a near final draft but it will do until I
complete the chapter.
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