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My Earliest Memories

 

Me Mom and Dad
1948

Earliest Memories

 

I was three, I don't remember the house but I remember vividly the porch, the driveway, the basement.  

How can people carry memories so clearly from over seventy years ago?  I was walking down the steps and tripped, as I fell forward my hand hit a piece of board with a nail  laying upward on the sidewalk. It was horrible, the blood, the sight, there was the tip of that nail sticking out the top of my hand, it had went all the way through.  My mother's attempt at pulling it out only brought on screams of terror.  The police were called, I will never forget the face and voice of that policeman that day.  His voice was so soothing, I was going to be ok, he was going to fix it.  As my mom distracted me he pulled the board out, I remember thinking it didn't hurt at all.  He whisked us in the back seat of the police car and drove us to the hospital.

 

 

Wasn't too much later I was whipping down the driveway on my tricycle and tipped sideways, fell through the basement window and right on a stack of old mattresses piled on the floor. Quite a tumble for a three year old but didn't have a scratch on me.  In the old houses in Detroit they had these big basement windows, today they have been replaced by the block windows, I'm sure I wasn't the only child to have an 'accident' with a basement window.

 

 

It was 1951, there was  lead in the paint chips, no floride in the water, etc., but there were many accidents just lurking around the corner.  I was helping my mom do laundry with her wringer washer, she had this big stick she used to move the clothes around and pick them up out of the hot water, as she put them through the wringer they would fall into the tub of rinse water on the other side.  I would take them out and put them back through the wringer and she would put them in the basket.

Well one day I didn't let go of the towel and it took my little arm through the wringer all the way up to my shoulder.  Before my mom could get around to the side the safety had already snapped and released the wringer.  I still remember the sound of that snap, I thought for sure my arm was gone, but no, it has lasted well these past 70 plus years.

 

 

It wasn't just the traumatic things I can recall there were lots of good memories too.  The hot summer heat and the City of Detroit turning on the fire hydrants so we could cool off.

 

 

 

Waiting for Santa

 

Jerry Me Diane

 

 

Estral Beach

I was four when we moved to the 'the beach' on Lake Erie in Monroe County, it had flooded earlier that year and many of the people were selling out.  

 

The Sovey's Hotel 1952

 

Dad got the house cheap and began fixing it up.  He was quite the woodworker.  I still have two bunny book ends he made in the seventh grade.  After he had fixed up the inside of the house he started on his 'white picket fence' with me helping as much as a four year old could, handing him nails, tools, getting him water.  It was a fine white picket fence when he was done.

Easter 1954

 

Diane Cupper Jerry Me
In our fine Easter outfits.  Diane and me had some fine Easter Bonnets but as we crossed the bridge to catch the church bus they both blew off in the canal. 

 

My dad was a hard working man his entire life, he was an over the road truckdriver and would be gone for days at a time.  It was a lot on my mother, after we moved to the beach in 52 she added four more to the brood, Floyd and Mike were just a year apart and I tried to help as much as I could, probably not much help from a 7-8 year old but I tried.  There were two rocking chairs, one was my moms the other was mine.  Spent many an hour rocking the babies while she cleaned, cooked, painted, fixed the plumbing, etc.

In the summer it wasn't too bad, we had a well and 50 gallon drums would catch the rain from the eaves for our baths, if it didn't rain for a long time it was off to the lake with a bar of soap.  But in the winter it was awful.  We had a cistern and the water truck would come fill it up in the fall but I don't think no matter how hard she tried to conserve it we always ran out of water.

In 1950s Roman Cleanser came in these brown gallon jugs, after they were empty my mom would wash them out and my dad would stop at Elizabeth Park on the way home and fill them with water.  When I picked up that jug, sure it was water, didn't take long to know it wasn't.  I don't remember if there were any after affects but I'm pretty sure I didn't swallow any, spit it out pretty fast. Maybe that's why they quit putting roman cleanser in those fancy bottles.

Little Brown Jug

 

 

The winters were harsh but the summers made up for it. Morning til dark we were outside playing.  Our neighbors were friends of my dads and they had kids the same age as us, played many baseball games, Simons against Wesners, listening to Harvey Kuenn, Jim Bunning, and Paul Foytack. Mom loved her Tigers and her Red Wings.  I don't think she ever missed listening or watching a game.

 To Be Continued.   

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Gibson of Caswell

 

Thomas Douglas and Abraham [Fulkerson] report settlement of estate of  ANDREW GIBSON between widow and NINE children June 1783

Andrew Gibson listed on first county tax in 1777, entered 100 acres on both sides of Kilgore's Bridge in Caswell County on 25 August 1778 [Pruitt, Land Entries: Caswell County

Marriage contract of John Cooper, widower and Mary Gibson widow, Cooper will not interfere with her disposal of her property to her children and will make no claim on it.  10 July 1782 Wit; John Anthony, THOMAS DOUGLAS

Mary Cooper alias Gibson in conjunction with James Gibson, acct with THOMAS DOUGLASS, guardian for her SIX children. 29 Dec 1786.

INV GOODS in possession of JAMES GIBSON, all but one pewter dish which he refuses to give up.  Payments due to Eppehroditus Stone and Mary Crips.  Others Mentioned; James Williamson, James Fullington, John and RICHARD GIBSON. BY JOEL GIBSON ADM. 1795

Marriage contract of John Cooper widower and Mary Gibson widow, Cooper will not interfere with her disposal of her property to her children and will make no claim on it. 10 July 1782 Wit: Thomas Douglas

1778 - Jesse makes two land entries totaling 150 acres on Linville's Mill Creek in Wilkes Co., [now Caldwell Co] The land was finally granted in 1784.  The 1784 tax list shows him in Captain Guest's district near JULIUS GIBSON [brother of Jesse's wife Hannah' and William Hogg [husband of Hannah's sister Omey.  Linville's Mill Creek is now called Laytown Creek and it runs through the crossoroad known as Laytown, NC

Arc of Gabriel

Photo of construction being done at Islam’s holiest site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca

Gravely raising the concerns of the Grand Mosque emissaries, this report continues, was when this mysterious “device/weapon” was discovered on 12 September by a 15-man tunnel digging crew—and who in their attempting to remove it were instantly killed by a massive “plasma emission” so powerful it ejected from the ground toppling a construction crane killing, at least, another 107 people. 

Catastrophically worse, this report notes, was that barely a fortnight after the first attempt to remove this mysterious “device/weapon” was made on 12 September, another attempt was made on 24 September which killed over 4,000 due to another massive “plasma emission” which put tens-of-thousands in panic—but which Saudi officials then blamed on a stampede. 

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1955.htm

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December 6, 2015

Russia Begins Transport Of  Saudi Arabia ’s Mysterious “ Ark  of Gabriel” To  Antarctica

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A mind-boggling report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) states that the sudden launching yesterday by Aerospace Forces (AF) of two satellites are for the protection of the Federation naval research vessel Admiral Vladimisky—which has just departed the Saudi Arabian Port of Jeddah after taking on board a mysterious object described as the “Ark of Gabriel” whose importance is deemed so vital that President Putin has further ordered naval warships guided missile cruiser Varyag, the Sovremennyy-class destroyer Bystry, Boris Chilikin-class fleet oiler Boris Butoma, and the powerful salvage tug Alatau that upon the ending of their current mission in India, they are to rendezvous with the Admiral Vladimisky in the Southern Ocean providing it protection as it sails to Antarctica.  

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TWO MONTHS LATER 

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill walks with penguins

Published

18 February 2016

Not satisfied with one groundbreaking encounter this week, the head of Russia's Orthodox Church has followed his talks with Pope Francis by meeting a rookery of penguins in Antarctica.

Flying from the warm climes of Cuba, where he met the Pope, Patriarch Kirill held prayers at a research station before taking a walk with the animals.

His visit was the first ever by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to Antarctica. It followed the first encounter between a head of Russian Orthodox Church and a pope in nearly 1,000 years.   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35607237

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The Ark of Gabriel: Unearthing an Ancient Secret Weapon

By Tasha Shayne |July 26, 2019 |

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   Pope Francis’s meeting with the Patriarch Kirill? Russian ships found docking at Arabic ports?
   What could possibly be so important that would bring religious entities who haven’t met in 1,000
   years, together? Some believe they know the answer: to move the Ark of Gabriel from the
   Grand Mosque in Mecca, to a secret base in Antarctica where it could be safely kept.

   What is the Ark of Gabriel?

   Not to be confused with the Ark of the Covenant, which houses the two stone slabs of the
   Ten Commandments, the Ark of Gabriel, which is not mentioned in the Christian Bible, This
   legend is said to have ties to both the Christian and Islamic faiths in that Archangel Gabriel
   is sacred to both — he foretold the birth of Jesus and dictated the entirety of the Koran to
   the Prophet Muhammed. 

   When the Roman Catholic Crusaders pillaged Constantinople in 1204, the Eastern Orthodox
   Church was able to squirrel away the contents of a manuscript from the Hagia Sophia Cathedral,
   titled “Gabriel’s Instructions to Muhammed.” The document details the message that the archangel
   gave to Muhammed in a cave near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It tells of a box
   — an ark — that holds a “tremendous power” and belongs only to God. This ark was forbidden
   to be used until the “Resurrection Day,” and until then, buried in an altar within “ the place of worship of angels before the creation of man.”
   
   

   Signifying the End of the World

   To the followers of Islam,“the place of worship of angels before the creation of man” could be no
   place other than Mecca — the holy city where all devout Muslims must attempt a hajj, a yearly
   five-day pilgrimage, at least once in their lifetimes. And it is here that the Ark of Gabriel was said
   to be buried, beneath the Grand Mosque, quietly waiting for the end of the world.

   But due to the ever-growing influx of pilgrims coming to pray at the Grand Mosque, the
   structure has had to continually expand to keep up. During such construction efforts, a crew of
   laborers purportedly discovered the Ark of Gabriel that had been secreted away for over a thousand
    years. The consequences were severe: On Sept. 11, 2015, a crane fell, causing 107 casualties,
    including the 15-man crew, and injuring as many as 238.

   The conspiracy alleges that, as a cover-up, the spokesman for the Presidency of the Grand Mosque
   and the Prophet Mosque attributed the so-called accident to “a strong sandstorm, winds and
   torrential rains.” Why? A report that’s claimed to belong to the Russian Ministry of Defense says
    it was on this day that the construction crew attempted to remove the Ark, and it states that the
   workers were killed by a plasma emission that spewed up from the ground with such vengeance
   that it knocked over the massive crane. 

   Twelve days later disaster struck again, this time three days into the hajj, when millions had
    gathered from across the world to worship in Mecca, slaughtering at least 2,400 worshippers.
   The cause? A stampede of people whose origins have yet to be explained. However, many people
   believe it was another plasma emission, made after a second attempt to unearth the Ark.
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   Antartica, the "other pole" down under, was visited in 2016 by more world leaders than in all its modern history--1820, when it was "discovered" to present.  Obama, Bishop Kirill, Buzz Aldrin, and John Kerry on US Election Day!  Mystery abounds with reports of  sacred writiings, known as the Arc of Gabriel, being transported by the Russian Navy from Saudi Arabia to Antarctica, the Pope meeting with Bishop Kirill immediately before the Bishop visited Anarctica to perform an ancient ritual, and then the US Secretary of State going, even the most hard-line rationalist has to ask--what is going on in Antarctica?
   
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   Who is the Archangel Gabriel?

   The angel Gabriel is the herald of visions, messenger of God and one of the angels of higher rank. He makes God's message understandable to people and helps them to accept it with a pure heart. Until 1970, Catholics celebrated the feast of the Archangel on March 24
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   Because of the celebrated feast of the Archangel March 24th - I am expecting good
   things on the 24th to happen. 

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Joanne