Category Archives: Children

It boggles the mind!

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Get a load of this ancestor’s family.  My 4th Great Grand Uncle, John Scalf, and his wife, Edeah Carlisle Scalf, had SIXTEEN children.  Their children‘s number of children below:

Nancy = 5 children

Polly = 11 children

John = 14 children

Brittan = 19 children (Count ‘em, NINETEEN!!)

Dicey = 17 children

Lydia =5 children

Berry =8 children

Lee = 7 children

Ira = 7 children

Jesse = 8 children

Peter = 4 children

Betsy = 1 child

Robert = 6 children

Lela = 4 children

Two of John and Edea Scalf’s children died in infancy and had no children.  As far as I can tell.

Edea had their first child in 1788 at the age of 18, their last child in 1823 at the age of 53.

I.

Cannot.

Imagine.

I am 53 NOW!

I’d kill.

No wonder all the women look old for their age in old pictures.  :(   Their grandchildren, assuming all lived, which is probably not likely, would have numbered 116 grandchildren!

I’m thinking of cooking Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinner for 132 people at one sitting.  DAYS AND DAYS of cooking.

I am so glad I have an electric stove, crockpot, electricity, gas!  I can’t imagine doing all that cooking without electricity, etc…..I’d give up before I started.

I have some aunts and uncles who married more than once, would have 10 children each marriage, but none of them, that I have seen records on, had that many grandchildren.  WOW.

WOW!

Invents cooking

Invents cooking

Shoot, I can’t even imagine cooking for 14 kids!  Goodness.

I am in AWE!

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Father Killed Jesus Mora Flores, Who Molested His Daughter, Texas Cops Say POLL

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Father Killed Jesus Mora Flores, Who Molested His Daughter, Texas Cops Say POLL.

The man who police in Texas say was killed after sexually assaulting a rancher‘s daughter was identified over the weekend.

Jesus Mora Flores was reportedly beaten to death on June 9 after a 23-year-old father found his 4-year-old daughter half naked with Flores at their ranch on the outskirts of Shiner, officers told CNN.

Lavaca County sheriff’s deputies told the station that the unnamed father had sent his daughter and her brother off to feed the family’s chickens. A little while later, the boy returned and told his dad that someone had taken his sister.

The father then found 47-year-old Flores — who came to the ranch with a family friend — sexually abusing his daughter and allegedly beat him to death with his fists.

Sheriff Micah Harmon has said that he will not charge the father, but the case will be presented to a grand jury to consider charges.

The father called 911 after the incident, reporting that Flores was on the ground and unresponsive. Harmon told reporters that the man appeared “very remorseful” and didn’t know he had killed the abuser.

“You have a right to defend your daughter,” Harmon told CNN at the time. “[The girl's father] acted in defense of his third person. Once the investigation is completed we will submit it to the district attorney who then submits it to the grand jury, who will decide if they will indict him.”

The 4-year-old girl went to the hospital after the attack, and “besides the obvious mental trauma,” is going to be OK, Harmon said.

Lotsa stuff to cover…

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I have been playing “hooky” much longer than I intended.  Sorry.

The reason?  I have become enamored of actually doing Genealogy research.  It has consumed hours in my days, without me realizing it.   It just happened, before I knew it.  It has overtaken my life.

First.  I know many people gave my blog awards, the last time I counted there were 14.  I am going to be a meany and not post about the awards.  I was overwhelmed.  I do want to thank everyone who gave my blog an award.  I am honored, and grateful, to have been thought of in the first place.

Second.  I am no longer going to accept awards for my blog.  I am sorry if this offends anyone.  That is not my intention.

Third.  Pictures of Shadow will be forthcoming.  He has grown.  He is also a GREAT watchdog, ask my sister.  :) Heheheh And only 7 months old too!

Fourth.  I did miss everyone.  I think I needed a break.  As usual, when I start something, I go at it with breakneck speed.  Remember, the 37 posts a day?  Then I knocked that back after being asked, nicely, about how many posts I make in one day.  So I toned it down a bit.  I have realized I need to learn to pace myself.  If I don’t, I lose steam, or interest, and end up going down another path.  My life has kinda been like that.  Wish it hadn’t taken me until my 50′s to realize I need to pace myself.  Have heard it needs to be done, but hearing it and actually realizing it are two different things.  So, I took a break.  Need to pace myself with the Genealogy too, find myself doing the same thing.  I then end up tired and worn out.  I don’t wanna do that.

Today is Monday.  I had forgotten today would be Monday; wasn’t thinking, and I didn’t have any “About” pages ready to post.  Some will be posting in the next few hours.  Sorry I forgot about them. ;(

I am enjoying the research.   I love History, always have.  My mother use to try to get me to help her with the research.  I never wanted to.  At the time, I thought it would be nothing but dry old dates and such.  It isn’t.  Wish she had told me.  The people come alive.  It isn’t just old dates and names.  You can see their stories.  Parents dying fairly young, in their 40′s.  Mothers at childbirth, fathers in wars.  Sometimes you don’t know why they have passed away, that bugs the crap outta me and I will hunt and hunt, online, trying to find the reason.  I finally realize I won’t know the reason unless I can travel to their home areas and research the information or unless I am lucky enough that someone else is researching the same family and can afford to do just that and place the information online.  It really kinda sucks not knowing.  There are a few people in my family that are just driving me nuts.  Sometimes, they just disappear.  No idea where.  I hate that too.

This morning I was looking for Thomas W. Harris, who married Juanita, don’t know her last name, in 1929 or 1930.  They were neighbors to Thomas’ parents.  They married when Jaunita was 15, and he 23, the census was taken when she was 16.  Within a couple of months of their marriage.  Height of the depression.  Can’t find them anywhere after 1930 and that is the only mention of the two I can find so far.  I go bonkers.  I GOTTA KNOW. NOW.   Sigh….

It isn’t just dates and names.