Mother and Me

Happy Mother's Day—

Mother and me. This photo was taken of us while we lived on East 5th Street in Greenville, Ohio. Mom worked for Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gerber as a housekeeper and it was a good life while it lasted. For that I am grateful but missed my old friends back in Gordon, Ohio where I was born and raised. My most famous ancestor was President Lincoln whose grandfather was killed by Indians. Another relative, through marriage to the Lincoln clan, was the Boone family who lived in and around Kentucky. And the Ballengee side (mother) came over from France and settled in the mountains of West Virginia and encountered the Indians in many ways. One of my relatives "won" a squaw in a card game where they "threw in a squaw" to round-up the bet. And that's how I got 1/8th Indian blood in me.