Tyler Cormier

My introduction into the world of Rally Racing at 12 years old, unofficially.

World Rally Championships, Rally Cross, or just Rally Racing in general just oozes skill and determination when you start talking about motorsports.  At 12 years old I was introduced, unofficially, into this world of on the edge of your seat racing.  Now some people might think that's pretty impressive to be...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

My Great-Grandfather: Antoon Thiessens

My Great-Grandfather: Antoon Thiessens
Antoon Thiessens, ca 1927 (age 79 years) Antoon Thiessens, the subject of this sketch, was born January 28, 1848 the fourth child by the second marriage of Hendrik Thiessen or Thiessens.  Hendrik was a tailor by trade.  His mother was Grietje Bulthuis, and he was born in the norther Dutch city...
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Susan Darbro

Grandfather Loy

Grandfather Loy
    My grandfather Loy was born September 16, 1884, the same year as future President Harry S. Truman and "modern" Italian artist Modigliani came along. It was the year Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn , a well-loved and hilarious American classic now under fire due to our national romance with...
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Deborah Annette Bertelsmann - Spratt

My beginning

I grew up in rural Belleville in St. Clair County Illinois in an area known as Dutch Hollow.   The kids were relatively safe and could go anywhere in the area and they knew if they misbehaved it would be dealt with then and there.   We had a neighborhood tavern...
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Deborah Annette Bertelsmann - Spratt

The Creek

When I was small I would go outside and play like any other kid so mom would tell me don’t go out of the yard.   Now you have to understand that I lived on a little hill and there was a field that my dad would put a garden in...
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Annie Payne

Back to the Future – With Dad

Back to the Future – With Dad
Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE   Often I have been asked about which person in my life, now dead, would I like to spend an extra 24 hours with, and my answer is always the same – my Dad, Ken Wallace. I have always been told that I...
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Rick Reed

Bald Mountain

Bald Mountain
Many summers while I was growing up, we took a summer vacation to the Adirondack mountains in New York to visit my grandparents (Grandpa and Grandma Reed).  One of my favorite places to visit was Bald Mountain.  It was always a great outing.  The first part of the trail was mostly...
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Charles William Spratt

The Reason Behind My Mother's Name That She Hated

My mother was the tenth child and she too young to argue about her name that she grew up hating all of her life . When she introduced herself at school functions she used her middle name Ruth and all of the family used her nickname “ Sis “. It was...
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Charles William Spratt

My Memories Of Grandma Beavers

My Memories Of Grandma Beavers
Millard “ Don “ Carriker and I are first cousins . He is also a member of Legacy Stories . Matter of fact he is the one that told me about this program . To my memory we have never met in person but a few years ago we met on...
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Charles William Spratt

Oh Give Me Home Where The Buffalo Roam

Oh Give Me Home Where The Buffalo Roam
In July 1903 my Grandpa Spratt had finished his homestead time on 40 acres of land just south of Ft Smith Arkansas. By November 1907 Oklahoma was a new state and had new opportunities. My Grandpa was just an old poor farmer looking for a better life for his family of...
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Charles William Spratt

The Most Challenging And Most Important Job I Ever Had

The most important and most challenging job that I have attacked was bringing two families together in peace with my wife. I started in April 1988. My wife’s daughter was a strong spirited seven years old that her father had died with a heart attack suddenly three and half years prior...
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Charles William Spratt

My Mother Vs My Grandmother

All of my life my mother hasn’t liked her mother in law . My Mom and Dad got married and lived with my Dad’s folks for awhile after they were married . My Grandmother ( Her mother in law ) said something that didn’t set well with my mother and my...
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Charles William Spratt

Thanks For The Memories

It was going to be a full day of nothing but fun for my older brother and I. My brother was four years and four months older than me so he got to help keep me entertained ( out of trouble). We left early in the morning for the forty mile...
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Charles William Spratt

The Day My Oldest Son Showed He Was A Man

It was a cool day in October 2009 in illinois. We were having a funeral   today . It was for my son that was that had turned 35 years old in August . I was their bouncingoff the walls . That’s just the way I was handling it . My...
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Karen Jenkins

She'll Meet Me At The Gates

Who would I most like to talk to? She and I have made plans for her to meet me when I cross over.

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Annie Payne

Falling in Love - '60's style

Falling in Love - '60's style
Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE I fell in love not long after I’d commenced my nursing training and perhaps the two were somehow connected? In the 1960’s Australian student nurses were required to ‘live in’ in the Nurse’s Home, on the hospital premises, where we were subjected to...
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Charles William Spratt

A Tribute To My Adopted Cajun Brother In Law

A Tribute To My Adopted Cajun Brother In Law
This is a tribute to my adopted brother in law that passed away this last year . He lived in East Texas 20 miles from Louisiana and was half Cajun and proud of it . Paul Burch Jr   1958-2011     What is a Coonass? There are a few different...
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Charles William Spratt

I hope My Wife Approves

When I was young and DUMB and before my wife died in childbirth in 1979 at the age of 28 . I was 32 years old and she was a stay at home Mom taking care of our two sons . I would go to work and people would ask me...
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Doris Ross Reddick

Clemmie - Doris - Clemmie

Clemmie - Doris - Clemmie
As a child,Clemmie Ross predicted she would have a daughter, her name would be "Doris and she will be a teacher". Her only child's name is Doris and she became a teacher. What Mother Clemmie could not have imagined is how significant to so many other lives this love of her...
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Charles William Spratt

My Jewel Tea Truck

My Jewel Tea Truck
It always seems to me that 1956 is the year to remember. I know my Dad had a big piece of pipe fall on his leg and crush the bone in his lower leg. He was off of work for a long time. They had to put a silver plate in...
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