As you can see, this fan chart starts with my grandfather, Marvin Leroy Shockley. It starts with Creston and Katarina's Great-grandfather.
Thomas Guideon Shockley, and Susan Melinda O'Briant/Bryant are buried at Shilo Cemetery about a mile north of our house. Do you think it is purely coincidence that I live on Bryant Road? They would be Katarina and Creston's Great-great-great grandparents.
Now, My Grandpa Shockley's mother's parents, or my Great-great-grandparents John and Lectar Boydstun homesteaded 160 acres on the NE corner of 96th and HWY 39. Johnny and Dana Travino live in a development on that site. John Boydston's Dad, William Boydstun homesteaded the property that borders 108th and its North border is Bryant Road. It is just a little over 2 miles east of my driveway. He deeded the Cemetery, Willow View, from his land and William and Jane are buried on that property. Other Boydstuns are buried on the property also.
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Think I need trifocals to do spellcheck! Mom
how long did you live there before you new about the dead relatives in the cemetery's
It was probably about a year after we moved here that I was doing a search for a family member that had fought in the civil war so that I could get a scholarship. I was talking with Mom and she gave me the name of Boydstun. I did some web searching and found out he was buried out at Willow View. So Katarina, she was not in school yet, and I took a field trip out the cemetery and confirmed my find. It wasn't until much later that Mom said she knew that the Shockley's were buried out here, but didn't know where, when I decided to walk the little cemetery just up the road. And there they were. Cool?
Mom, it prints out on a standard piece of paper. I don't know how you can read stuff on a computer screen. I have to print everything. I'm not a very good tree-hugger liberal.
I don't think that Gid read this. We were at dinner with him and Brandi(y)(?) yesterday and he didn't know his grandpa's name!
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