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Tell a cool story 'bout your forebears
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I'll start:
Grandmama on my Pa's side could serve dinner speaking Deutch, scold us in French, and recite the entire prologue of Canterbury Tales in Scot-Irish middle English. Used to put un-cooked spaghetti noodles in a pile and challenge us kids to figure out which one was on bottom without touching.
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My grandmother saw Hitler driving by in a car.***
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Re: My grandmother saw Hitler driving by in a car.***
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Crazy part of the story is that it was 1952 in Argentina.
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Si. Es La Verdad.***
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My step grandmother was in a concentration camp
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and had the tattoo to prove it. Polish.
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My great grandfather died in a concentration camp.
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He fell out of the guard tower. Tragic.
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My great grandfather died in a Russian prison camp.
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He got conscripted near the end there when they were taking everybody. And I guess the Russians got him.
Never let the Russians get you.
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My great aunt got bent over
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Frank Howard’s desk.
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Awful late in the day for POTD but here we are***
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Re: Tell a cool story 'bout your forebears
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My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.
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Re: Tell a cool story 'bout your forebears
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Mar 22, 2024, 2:46 AM
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Dang it, Ford. Chestnuts ARE lazy.
Ever eyed one a while?
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Re: Tell a cool story 'bout your forebears
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My Cherokee Great Grandmother shot and killed a man that broke into her house. She then went to bed and waited to call the Sheriff the next morning. She didn't want to bother him at night. I don't think that's cool, but it's one of those crazy things I heard about.
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My Grannie had the best sayins
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The one she used to tell me the most often was “Boy, you fixin to shít and fall back in it.”
And she was right too.
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LOL Ive had that one directed at me many times***
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Ill dox myself a bit...
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1. When i was in high school, my brother was watching nba finals... my mom comes in and says, hey, thats George Karl (Celtics Coach). She knows nothing about sports so we were all like, Huh?... yeah, i dated him for a little bit when your dad and i were broke up.
Her Aunt dated Andy Griffith for a long time but broke up with him because he never proposed.
And the doxxing...
My great great great some amount (i think 7) grandfather, Simon, was well to do. Cornwallis siezed his house as a base in NC... tortured him for his money (never found it). His wife went back for her snuff box and demanded to be let in to find it. If i recall correctly, Cornwallis mentioned in his diary that if the women were as fierce as her, the men will be hel! to fight.
Here is something i found about it with little searching.
https://amrevnc.com/dixons-mill/
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Ive heard that Cornwallis story before
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Very cool
Other two too
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Did that a couple weeks ago
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Where were you ?
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My great uncle was the White House
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Barber for three Presidents and countless Senators. Left the gig when Clinton came into office because he only used froofroo stylists.
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A decent writer could spin this into a think piece on American decline.***
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I bet the White House barber under Clinton
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was both:
1) sometimes under Clinton, and;
2) Had enormous tracts of land.
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Pretty sure my mom
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got bet over Frank Howards desk?
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lol
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One of my great...great, great grandmother came across on the Mayflower.
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My sister came across in a canoe.
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My granny had a Pina colada at Trader Vics.
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Her hair was perfect.
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NONE of your forebears are as great as
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Ten Bears.
10 > 4
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Is that
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A NIPPLE??????
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Great uncle on my fathers side was on the USS South Dakota during the battle
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at Guadacanal. Jack was one of the lucky ones to survive.
A great uncle on my mothers side, Bill, was a colonel in the Strategic Air Command, stationed in England during the late 50's early 60's. Ironically he married a Brit named Hillary, so for many years we got Christmas cards from Bill & Hillary.
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I have a Timex watch....
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...purchased by my great-granddaddy. It was bought during the First World War in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was bought by private Doughboy Ernie Coolidge the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-granddaddy's war watch, made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. You see, up until then, people just carried pocket watches. Your great-granddaddy wore that watch every day he was in the war. Then when he had done his duty, he went home to your great- grandmother, took the watch off his wrist and put it in an ol' coffee can. And in that can it stayed 'til your grandfather Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War Two. Your great-granddaddy gave it to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Your granddad was a Marine and he was killed with all the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death and he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your 22-year old grandfather asked a gunner on an Air Force transport named Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he had never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your grandfather was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's gold watch. This watch. This watch was on your Daddy's wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured and put in a Vietnamese prison camp. Now he knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it'd be confiscated. The way your Daddy looked at it, that watch was your birthright. And he'd be ###### if any slopeheads were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'. His ###. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ###. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ### for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.
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I can't remember if I've shared this. We have the Civil War diary from my
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great x3 uncle. He was at the siege of Vicksburg and would apparently mock the besiegers by streaking along the ramparts daring them to shoot him. When the city fell, the Union army identified him and rewarded him by putting him up in their officers' quarters with whatever food/drink he wanted.
I like to think he would fit in here.
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Re: Tell a cool story 'bout your forebears
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My great granddaddy was friends with Strom and used to ride in a peach festival parade with him every year (he was a peach farmer like my grandfather). On that side of the family, George Wallace is a distant relative. That side of my family took in a Nazi defector during the war who fled to SC; he threw out all his stuff but my family kept his armband. My parents have it now.
My grandpa is the reason our family bleeds orange. He was the only of many children to go to college and graduated Clemson in 1935. He almost didn't go because he felt a duty to stay and help the family, but some of his siblings practically dragged him to the train station and put him on the train to Clemson, telling him he couldn't pass up this chance. Because of that, everyone in our family, extended too, has been a diehard Clemson fan for life, even if they didn't attend. Papa loved our Tigers and my grandma even had them play Tiger Rag at his funeral.
One ancestor on that side was shot at Gettysburg, was told he would probably die, but he walked back from PA to SC anyway and survived. During the Revolution, one of my direct ancestors had a tavern and inn (and I named my garage bar after it) in SC that's marked with a historical marker today; he later went on to defeat Thomas Sumter for a state legislator seat.
On my mom's side, I'm related to our fattest president, William H. Taft. That's also the side that inspired how much I like to drink. Lotta Irish there.
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When my grandaddy was 11 or 12 he had never seen the ocean, so he
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and some friends decided to go. They lived in the NC mountains, and hopping on freight trains was their transportation. My grandaddy stole a pistol from his dad and stuck it in his boot for the trip.
They jumped on a train and managed to make it to Myrtle Beach, in sight of the ocean, but the cops immediately caught the boys getting off the train. The cops found his pistol, but gave it back and told them to get out of town and never come back. So, they went home the same way they had arrived.
Ocean must have had some affect because when he was 21 he enlisted in the Navy in 1936 and spent his whole career there.
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My great great uncle was super smart and the first to go to College, he went
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to Clemson I have his ring from 1913 or something like that. He was so smart he went insane and died living on Bull Street. My grandfather actually sent him money and took care of his affairs during the 60's and 70's, we found receipts in my grandparents old stuff.
My grandfather was poor as shit, grew up in Gaffney, SC. There is some story about them moving to Hickory Grove due to a flood keeping them from going back across the river. No clue how accurate any of that is, they are all dead now. I think I had an Uncle who was an executive with Massey Ferguson, but he drank himself out of a great career.
My dad and his family were poor as shit, grew up in York, SC. I believe they were sharecroppers. My uncle shot my aunt in the stomach with a shotgun, she lived, it was "accidental." She is the only one in my extended family still alive from that generation.
I am from really smart, but really poor stock. It all makes sense now.
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Re: Tell a cool story 'bout your forebears
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My father’s side brought liquor to Francis Marion’s troops while they conducted their terror upon the Brits in the low country swamps. The swamp fox was not a drinker but his troops were. My ancestor’s nickname was “Marion’s Commissary” .
My mother’s family had a castle in Scotland and in that castle they hide the Scottish royal jewels from Oliver Cromwell during his reign 1749-1761
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Back a long long time ago, I recon around 1925 or so
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my great grandparents had their photo taken in this buggy. My GGM appears to be part Obed®.
No one ever did anything cool. No one ever went to college (until my brother and I and his didn't count bc he went to Lander) and no one ever moved further away than Anderson County SC.
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ngl
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I'd bend your GGM over frank howard's desk.
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#metoo***
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Straight hottie.***
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Re: ngl
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That there's just something you don't hear every day.
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My grandparents wedding pic, in a buggy, around 1905.
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When my grandfather was born, his father was 42, and his mother was 16.
Both of these grandparents died before I was born, so I never kner either one.
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Re: My grandparents wedding pic, in a buggy, around 1905.
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Liking your Grandfather's hat. I have a similar looking one.
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Re: My grandparents wedding pic, in a buggy, around 1905.
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Stylin and profilin!
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My Grandfather was an Ensign on the Coghlan in this battle...
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and one of the people injured. He was temporarily blinded. I wish I had a copy of the Chicago newspaper article about him, but I think my uncle kept all the copies we found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Komandorski_Islands
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Re: Tell a cool story 'bout your forebears
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On my mother's side she entered DAR on relative kilt at King's Mountain. One of only nine patriots to fall there. Legend has it he was shot by his brother that was in Ferguson's troops. Turns out, I met a chap at Clemson and became friends with, that lived and dairy farmed very near King's Mountain. While visiting with him I discovered we were both related to same patriot as his mother was closely related to my grandmother.
On Father's side, his mother and bunch of sisters came from Liberty Hill. Great grand diddy was surgeon in Kershaw's Brigade. House is still there as they put the sign of the Masons on the door and the Yaquis didn't torch it when they came through. Grandmother used to talk about going to look for the buried silver they hid. They always figgered the "help" found it first.
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Great grandtfather and his two brothers were confederate soldiers who fought
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in the Petersburg campaign in 1864. My great grandfather was taken prisoner by federal troops and taken to Elmira NY where he remained until the end of the war 10 months later. Both of his brothers were wounded at Petersburg, and neither survived. GGF returned to his home northern Greenville county, where he continued farming until his death. Rumor has it that he and his kinfolk made a lot of moonshine over the years as well.
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One of my GGGGG however many F
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Came across the ocean (impressive, right?)
His ship was robbed by pirates of the Caribbean (not the movie). Pirates took everything, including their clothes, so he arrived in Charleston wearing a flour sack, had to sell himself indentured servitude and gradually made his way up to Lexington to meet up with the rest of the Adidases. This was around 1775-ish.
I honor him by walking around the house in my underwear every evening.
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Had a great uncle get robbed and tied to a set of train tracks in
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Prosperity when he was a teenager. Train ran over him and killed him.
That's a pretty wild story.
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I had a great uncle who drove the chain gang truck. He carried the
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prisoners out to work on the road one day, and one of the prisoners murdered him with a pickaxe.
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Many generations ago, lore has it that TRDJ's GGGGGGGGGGGAbuelo
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Anywho, he used to tell jokes and his favorite was:
Why Jesus wasn't born in Spain? Because he couldn't find 3 wise men nor a virgin.
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My forebearers
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Signed the SC Secession document, so I'm the one they're looking for come reparations time
GGF (02), GF (31), and Uncle (62) all Clemson grads
Grandfather was General Patton's transportation Colonel in WWII. To the front line and back repeatedly with the supplies that ran the 3rd Army. He ended up being the Administrator for Lichtenstein as the Allies moved east
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My grandmother was born in
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Re: Tell a cool story 'bout your forebears
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General Paul Quattlebaum was great grandfather. Signer of Letter of Secession. His son Theodore was one of Citadel cadets that fired first cannon shot that started Civil War. Quattlebaums play greatly in history of CU. Great Uncle Brodie was first math professor @ Clemson College. me is a Lounger.
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Both of my grandads were in war. Dad's side was in Korea
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Mar 22, 2024, 12:51 PM
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and manned the trucks with the guns on the back that shot down planes. Forgot what they were called. He saw a lot a death and had a lot of issues but he got a medal of excellence for it. His father and mother were farmers. His father was left on the doorstep of a couple so we couldn't know who his father was and why we aren't related to any of the people around here with the same last name.
Mom's side was a horrible drunk and was in Panama during the revolution. My grandmother was actually the first one back on american soil when the revolution started and they evacuated everyone. She also had a monkey while down there.
Grandma's side were all farmers too.
Great Great Great grandfater is also my wife's great great grandfather.
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