Just wanted to take a minute to share something I received in my email today . . . it talks about today's final issue of a small town newspaper [i.e., the Journal Tribune] . . . and is from a library in Biddeford, Maine . . . where I have spent many pleasurable hours looking for tidbits about the lives of Mom's New England kith 'n kin while digging thru their newspaper archives . . . both onsite and online . . .
Which prompted me to write a little about how much I enjoy and appreciate both the current Rockdale Reporter as well as the archives of . . .
For more than a century, the Reporter family has memorialized countless tidbits about our kith 'n kin, e.g., there was . . .
- The Rockdale Messenger [est. 1873]
- The Rockdale Reporter [est. 1893]
- The Rockdale Reporter & Messenger
For more than a century, the Reporter family has memorialized countless tidbits about our kith 'n kin, e.g., there was . . .
- the tragic death of Mom's paternal great-grandma in 1899
- the surprise birthday party for Dad's maternal grandma in 1936
- the write-up about the marriage of our Mom and Dad in 1950
And the numerous reports thru the years from the little communities of Bethlehem and Cole Springs and Tanglewood give us a delightful snapshot of their day-to-day lives . . . which we would not have if not for the Reporter, so . . .
To all of the Reporter family . . . both past and present . . . I will quote from the McArthur Library blogpost . . .
"Thank you for being a part of my story."
P.S. . . . and just as an additional FYI . . . some of the HERNDON ancestors
of the COOKE family were / are near neighbors [both in life and in
death] of some of Dad's kith 'n kin who came to Texas from Alabama and
Mississippi . . . to wind up living and dying, and resting for eternity,
in a little country cemetery in Tanglewood . . .
