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part two of two for part one, click here "She was a very satisfying grandmother." — Nancy (Dingman) Watson In part one we saw Annie...

part one of two At the end, she had dementia, closeted upstairs in her daughter’s house, living her final days in confusion and fear. The...

My family celebrates Christmas by making and decorating gingerbread cookies. Mom and Dad started it in the 1940s when my eldest siblings...

Everyone knew you could get a drink in Keyport on a Sunday. Local hotel and saloon proprietors had been ignoring the Sunday selling law ...

August 1895. The hottest days of the year. In Keyport, New Jersey, children frolicked in the cool water and their parents enjoyed the...

New Publication: Duty, Family, Perseverance: The Story of William Watson. Follow the inspiring life of an English immigrant who endured...

My new book Duty, Family, Perseverance: The Story of William Watson will be published soon. More information to follow!

As the S. S. Thuringia steamed out of Hamburg, Germany on April 17, 1872, sixteen-year-old Herman Oscar Bauer was one of almost eight...

The sun rose over Keyport, New Jersey, at 6:15 a.m. on October 22, 1890. [1] Nearly all the town’s merchants and firemen were up early,...

About the time my great-grandfather Herman Oscar Bauer (1856–1912) was elected Captain of Company G, 3rd Regiment of the Raritan Guards...

What was it like for a girl who grew up in a Pennsylvania town to become the wife of a Texas rancher in the late 1880s? This was my...

I'm participating in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This week the theme is "unusual name." I don't actually have many...

Daniel Watson (1850–1919), age about 27 Working in a woolen mill in the 1800s was rough, to say the least. It was hot, dirty, physically...

I'm participating in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This week the theme is "Thankful." #52Ancestors #genealogy...

Great grandfather Herman Oscar Bauer (1856-1912) came to the U.S. from Germany at the age of sixteen, clean shaven but giving his...

No one knows exactly what happened out in the barn that terrible day, except that it was an accident. Ever since their mother had died in...

Shared Birthdays Our family enjoys several shared birthdays. My sister Wendy and our niece Rosey share a birthday. My nephew Jesse shares...

Mary Dingman's father died when she was thirty-five years old. Time enough for him to impress upon her the value of humanitarian service...

Below: Lucinda Moody, great-grandmother of Ann Watson There's a Watson family legend that my great-grandmother, Lucinda Moody (1853–1912)...

Around the turn of the 20th Century, the Dingman family hired a teamster to hitch his oxen to a large boulder up in the Ramapo hills and hau