[Magdalen] "Hand to Hand" - have you one to share?

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 6/3/16 7:33 AM, Ian Gomersall wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Here's a little bit of Summer fun :)
>
> I've just posted on our church blog about 'Hand to Hand' - how far we can
> connect back to, say, a specific event through family memory or connection.
>
> Have a look at the blog entry at:
> https://stchrysostoms.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/hand-to-hand/
> which explains more and gives examples.
>
> I was wondering if we had 'Hand to hand' s to share

150 years:  Abraham Lincoln's assassination.  1865

What my great-great-grandfather, an Illinois farmer, had to say when a 
neighbor, on his way home from town, stopped in to give him the news 
that Lincoln had been shot.  My g-g-g said, "Good." and went on with 
what he was doing.  One of his children was nearby, and heard the 
exchange. Many years later, she told the child who much later became my 
aunt (born 1914), who told me.  During the many decades of Lincoln 
Worship in Northern areas, this was a closely guarded scandalous family 
secret, but all his first generation of children knew it.  If my mother 
knew it, she never told me, but her sister did.


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Sibyl Smirl
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