Monthly Archives: September 2021

I did not write this; it is from the DailyOM site. Sometimes we need to be our own village by utilizing all of our skills and learning more. Simple survival requires us to be in possession of many skills. The … Continue reading →

I am beyond thrilled to be back at my table on the deck, even with 64-degrees. I do not mind the temperature, nor even the mild breeze as I just wanted to be back on the deck after the several … Continue reading →

Interesting that Jesse Delmar Barmes lived in Elwood during WWI. I knew that Jesse’s brother, Edla Barmes, had brought Jesse’s sons, Virgil and Emerson, to Elwood, Indiana for jobs at The American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, but I had … Continue reading →

Mary Jane Cline Ayres was a widow when she married my 3rd great-grandfather, Frederick Elde Barmes, of Hope, Indiana. This is some information on Mary: Mary Jane Cline Ayres Barmes Bannon was born 23 December 1854 in Mary Jane Cline, … Continue reading →

Virgil Barmes was my maternal great-grandfather.

In 1977, I made binders for my grandparents, some of their siblings, and my great grandparents, and their siblings with story-sheets they could fill out to record their favorite stories, our family’s history. I’m glad that at age thirteen was … Continue reading →

While attending to purging adventures I ran across some of my genealogy books and binders that I began in 1977 during my seventh grade year of school. I Xeroxed pages from the family Bible belonging to my great-great grandmother Mary … Continue reading →