Tell Me A Story: April 2017

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

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My Granny Lucille's family. Granny is in the center right behind her mother (Kathryn Klophenstein Culbertson - born 1869). Granny's father: Francis Marion Culbertson (born 1862) Photo: Circa 1915 - Granny Lucille was 10 years old.

GOD sees GENERATIONS.

Christian artist, Sara Groves, wrote a song, GENERATIONS. I met Sara and asked her how she had such great wisdom at her young age about GENERATIONS. Sara told me she learned it from her beloved grandmother.

Sara's lyrics: "Remind me of this with every decision - generations will reap what I sew. I can pass on a curse or a blessing to those I will never know. May my great-great-great granddaughter live in peace. May my great-great-great grandson live in peace."

SONG LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVhVX9IJL4&list=RDyuVhVX9IJL4#t=23

I think ABOUT GENERATIONS now. They mean more to me as I am a grandmother, and great-grandmother. The birth of my first great-grandchild, Rosie Jewell made me think about the generations of people in my family who passed on before Rosie was born. The ones she will only know about this side of heaven, except if I tell her.

It's like I'm holding hands throughout the generations with my great-great-great grandfather and my great- granddaughter. He was a miller and wagon maker who was a widow. He was a man of faith, a Mennonite, who immigrated to the United States from France in 1834, with his eight children. My precious Rosie Jewell was just born on April 4, 2017. I hope and pray that Rosie Jewell will become a woman of faith. It's her heritage.

I've known and loved people from multiple generations. I treasure their stories.

I knew and loved my great-grandmother, Katheryn Klophenstein Culbertson, (born 1869) and my grandmother, Granny Lucille (born in 1905), and my mother, Natalie (born in 1929).

Thanks to a relative (Roy Charles Pressler) who did research in 1982, I have a book with information about generations in my family...including ancestor charts.

Ancestor Charts...

and stories about people...

my people...

Rosie's people.

I did not know my great-great grandmother, Katherine Stuckey Klophenstein (born in 1828) but I know she was born on August 22, 1828 in Alsace Lorraine, France, and died in 1999 in Hale, Missouri.

My great-great-great-great grandmother, Katherine Voder Stuckey was born in Bprm France in 1812 and died in June 7, 1883 in Archbold, Ohio.

My great-great-great grandfather, Peter Stucky, was born in Grandvillars, Haut Rhine, France in 1808 and died in Archbold, Ohio in 1892. His 1834 French "Foreign Passport" describes him...Age 53, Height 1 metre 71 centimetres (5 ft. 3 inches), Hair chestnut mixed, Forehead high, Eyebrows chestnut, Eyes gray, Nose ordinary, Mouth medium, Beard chestnut mixed, Chin round, Visage oval, Complection dark. He became a wagon maker. He was a man of faith...a Mennonite.

My great-great-great-great grandfather, Peter (Pierre) Stucky was born in France is 1781 and died in France in 1846.

History of Pierre (Peter) Stuckey (1808 - 1892) Family as written by Peter Graber, a great-grandson, in 1921

"Peter Stuckey, a widower, with part of his family of eight children immigrated to this country (United States) from Europe in the year of our Lord 1834, landing at Napoleon, Ohio. From there they were taken to the Christ Beck homestead, north east of Archbold, Ohio..where Isaiah Zaerr now lives.

Here they were made as comfortable as possible in a log cabin measuring 16 by 20 feet. As Beck owned a map of the country surrounding his place, he by the aid of a compass for a guide, took Stuckey out to select a homestead. Stuckey, being a miller by trade, sought to locate along a stream where he might establish a grist-mill to be run by water power, the only power available in that day.

Finally he decided to locate 1 and 1/2 mile north east of Stryker, Ohio, known now as the Ben Aschliman farm. A mark is left where the old log cabin used to stand. The grist mill however was never built for a man by the name of Weotz was running one at Lockport, Ohio, and it was not lawful to have two mills less than six miles apart. So he had to give up his ambition as a miller and took to breaking up the soil and began farming. He did set up a hand mill tho' that he used to grind meal for his family and neighbors, during spare time and after night when the days work was done. He lived 13 years after coming to America."

Remember the words from Sara Groves' song, GENERATIONS:

"Remind me of this with every decision -

generations will reap what I sew.

I can pass on a curse or a blessing

to those I will never know.

May my great-great-great granddaughter live in peace.

May my great-great-great- grandson live in peace."

Granny Lucille's Wedding Day, 1926.

Happy Birthday, Rosie Jewell!
I have a lot of stories to tell you...
     about your people:
   people of faith who love GOD
                   and love each other.

You are named after your mother, Megan Jewell, who was named after my father, Jewell Bush, who is your great-great grandfather, and your mother's great-grandfather.

I pray that you, my great granddaughter, will live in peace, and come to know Jesus as your personal savior and Lord, and serve Him faithfully all the days of your life.
Welcome to our family.

You are a miracle!

SONG LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVhVX9IJL4&list=RDyuVhVX9IJL4#t=23

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and invite a friend!

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

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