Insurance update

I was wrong--again. At least I was wrong about the kind of insurance that we were going to hear about last night. It was a life insurance policy that Charles has, not accident policies. Different company altogether. But I really didn't take part in the discussion. I did, indeed, not sit in on the 'meeting' but worked on my genealogy and then went to the back and watched TV while they talked--3 1/2 hours!

I had good luck with the genealogy last night. I am pretty sure I made another connection with my great grandfather Henry. He's kind of like the black sheep of the family. He had been married three times before he married my great grandmother. Problem is, he didn't divorce the third wife before he did. I have a huge file from the National Archives of his Civil War military service and Sarah's quest for widow's pension. Yes, he was in the Civil War and was 30 years older than my great grandmother. Anyway, I believe I found documentation that he was living in Crawford county Kansas in 1875. There's always been a question about children from these previous marriages and in this census record there is a 14 year old daughter--M. J. I will be doing more research to see if I can get any trace on her. The strange part is that I wasn't looking for this when I found it. I was checking a hint from ancestry.com about another side of the family--the Manns. I didn't know that any of them had ever lived in Kansas and the hint was that my great grandfather Mann lived in Crawford County Kansas in 1875. He was only three at the time and it was, in fact, the correct family. The strange thing is that the Mann family was listed only 4 people down from the Henry family. They were apparently neighbors. The Henry's grandson (my dad) married the Mann's granddaughter (my mom). How strange is that?~!

I took my aunt to lunch today at Jasmine's. We had a good time visiting. It was a beautiful day so I walked up to Jasmine's from the library. It was a good day for a walk. Tomorrow sounds just as good. I think that I will walk the cemetery in the morning before going to the library. Tomorrow night is the monthly meeting and I have a lot to do before the meeting.