- Grandmas had 20 (?) sisters and brothers--her father was married twice.
- Mary, Hilde, Flora, Eve, Carrie, George (wife: Kate)
- Once they told me Grandma had 7 real siblings and 7 half siblings.
- Once they also told me that Mary's husband Herman lived in the basement (?) and that he was really German and would stab anyone with his knife and fork if they put their hand in front of him (while he was eating?) and that everbody was scared to death of him. They lived on Burnett and went to St Elizabeth Church. They had 8 kids: Marie, Rose, Tony, Joe, Hermie, Antony and Antonette (twins).
- Grandma's dad used to bring barrels of wine (via horse and buggy) over the Ohio River to sell in Louisville.
- Mary and Anna went over all the time to pick strawberrries and play with George's kids who were about the same age.
- Aunt Eve (Eva?) was one of Grandma Beisler's sisters. She was a few years younger than Grandma and she lived to be 106.
- She had a home on the Knobs.
- Eve's children: Marietta, Irvine, Alfred, Bernie
- Angie went over there to pick strawberries and was good friends with Marietta (one of Eve's daughters). Marietta's husband died and so she lived with Aunt Eve.
- Bertha was the daughter of Carrie and was the oldest of 8.
- Raymond, Evelyn, Anna-Lee, Sr Dolorita
- Mom recently told me that Grandma came over to Louisville to take care of Grandpa's mother who was very sick and that she really hated it. She must have beeon only 15 or 16, so I can understand why. Apparently, his father had already died.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Pumping Angie for Info
I recently tried to pump Angie for information about our relatives in Indiana. Here's what I got:
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I believe it was Eva.
When I was a kiddo, we used to go visit the farm in Floyd Knobs, Ind. I understand that the original family farm (?who kept it?) was expanded by buying other nearby property, so htere must have been some measure of success. Is it still there, house, etc? no idea. Great g'pa would barge over to the markets with his wine. G'ma said that's where she learned about oranges- from the Italians at the market. Mom said that G'pa was one of the fellows who'd visit the farm to buy wine. G'ma said that it was typical rocky Knobs land. Years later I felt mildly insulted when my husband's aunt insinuated that they didn't use fancy-schmancy seasonings (like me- it was the hayday of dad's auction buys for the concession business). Their cooking was more like German cooking. Phooey! G'ma said they are what they grew. I think we ate like midwestern farmers-lots of vegs and not such an emphasis on lots of meat.
Thanks for the names of these family members. I was too young to know. They had a parrot which intreagued me. There was a pond and all the kids loved it except for me as I was mud phobic. I Never remember our dad going there. The elders would play cards late into the evening. I think G'pa's family was from New Jersey.
Thinking about markets reminds me of the farmer's market in Louisville. An early memory is of a box of persimmons... We did not have raspberries or blueberries. If there were other berries, it was all seasonal. In Highland Park, before the Pepsi plant was built, there were fields with wild blackberry bushes. New home 'subdivision' in that part of L'ville in 1950- how slowly some areas used to grow.
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