Reflections ~ Thanksgiving 2014

With a grateful heart!

a clear eye

Keep a clear eye toward life's end.

Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. 

What your are in His sight is what

you are and nothing more.

Remember that when you leave

this earth, you can take nothing

you have received...

but only

what you have given; 

a full

heart enriched by honest service,

love, sacrifice and courage.

- Francis of Assisi

Tombstone: Not neglected !

Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest;

Neglected and alone.

The name and date are chiseled out

On polished, marble stone.

It reaches out to all who care

It is too late to mourn.

You did not know that I exist

You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you

In flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

One hundred years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left

Who would have loved you so.

I wonder how you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot,

And come to visit you.

~ Author Unknown ~

Family ties

 Thursday nite is Football for Mr J and Mr T!  11-6-2014 OKC

A New Detailed ~ Lookup @ Familysearch 8-2014

VIA link listed below, I discovered from a fellow blogsite "Reclaiming Kin" that the Freedmen's Bureau Records has digitized Field Office Records for AL, AR, DC, MD, Delaware, Mississippi, MO, NC and SC, TX and VA.

 Click on  Familysearch 

Blog Post - Absenteeism

DEFINITION:   a prolonged absence of an owner from her blog site.....

..... a tendency to be away from (blog) without a good reason !!!

I'm Baaaaack !!

Should have an "S" on brother.....   I've got four of 'em!!!   The best ever!!

Here's the whole bunch!!

Their Words Do Remain.... also

Reflecting back on the year 1968.  A letter was written.... and I would say it was from Mama Dooley (my daddy's mother ~ Pearlie Travis Morgan-Huggins)

 NOTE:  a 6 cent stamp: The address is the home of my daddy's brother.... James DD Morgan and wife Dorothy.

The date is 2-6-1968... and Mama Dooley is really quite ill.   She will not live much longer/nor recover regardless of strict diet.   I don't think they said much or diagnosed her diabetes as an acute problem of kidney failure.

It seems Daddy had sent her a box, and she turns around to send my oldest brother Howard Jr.... a bit of money.   She's giving.... in her weakened state.

This first picture was taken by another family member.  It hereby shows the date of death for mama Dooley as February 27, 1968 in Chicago IL (21 days later).

Below,...this is my favorite picture of Mama Dooley, I can't tell where it was taken.   There were several years that Mama Dooley would visit us in Oklahoma.  She seems so cool and casual with a smile in this picture.  I can't even guess her age.  

 Back in 2008, by way of Memphis, TN, my brother and I (hubby and children) drove to the Great State of Mississippi - MLK call it "a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression.."

This is the cemetery where Mama Dooley rests.

Tuesday Musings ` Their Works Do Follow !

KJV    

Revelation 14: 12-13

¹² Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

Something newly ~ learned today!!!

Queen Nzinga - Prior to last year, I had never heard of Queen Nzinga. Even in adult life, I continue to learn about various historical figures. Queen Nzinga was a 17th century African ruler  of the Ndongo and Matamba kingdoms (present day Angola). Queen Nzinga fought for the freedom of her kingdoms against the Portuguese.

(Picture of Queen Nzinga obtained from Amazing Women in History)

Inspiration Comes to Life in a 59-yr old Letter

...of my mind and heart!   I've saved and jpg'd many keepsakes.  I ran across this August 2, 1955 letter that my mother wrote to my daddy....

Besides wondering what/why daddy was spending a week??? in Wichita, KS ????

I looked up the 1955 stamp Mama used... I wonder where in OK... she got it???

The Scott 1069 3 Cent Stamp GreatLakes Transportation-Issued 1955

Soo Locks - A Century of Great Lakes Transportation
Mint Value $0.45   used Value $0.20  (2014)

3 cent

Soo Locks - A Century of Great Lakes Transportation

Mint Value $0.45

Used Value $0.20

Dear Howard,

We are all well here. 

After I wrote you yesterday, the light man came out, so I had to pay him $3.50 and promised to pay the other Monday.  That was the $3.00 I had ready to send to Ricker.  If you can send Ricker something.

I carried the boys to the park yesterday evening and they had a big time swimming.  They learned to mid-crawl and they called that swimming.

Charlene can float.  I did not know we had to pay to get in the pool.  $0.10 each under 12 yrs old.  Orville was too scared to get in.  Beverly walked around in the pool.  They all had fun and now are ready to go again.                                                                                       

See you Saturday.                                                                                          Love sincerely,                                                                                               Helen

The itch is much better (smile)

Black Woman in America 2013-2017: 73 years ago today! Executive Order 8802

Black Woman in America 2013-2017: 73 years ago today! Executive Order 8802

Never Give up!

Bev Kirk

Good Parents.... My Family..... June 2014

My dad would have been 86 years old via 4-17-2014.   He died on 6-14-1997 -- that's seventeen years ago.   That's how long my mother was been a widower...

News About Grandfather ~ Trall Sipuel

Spanish American War

The Truth Be Told ~ T B Sipuel

Dad Sipuel with Big Mama.... abt 1945  

His car -- undoubtedly!!!

Injustice in America

Grandad Sipuel's Service and Legacy in Oklahoma

The truth as it strike deep into my heart!

Reason enuf for my refusal to be ignorant of all viewpoints!

The Story of T. B. Sipuel

Telling Big Mama's Story.....


This is something I want me and my brothers and cousins to do... in a book style.

I searched the newspaper film in the OK History Center several months ago.   I found these words in a White- Daily Oklahoman Newspaper rendering this story  (dated September  1946).

HEART ATTACK FATAL TO NOTED NEGRO LEADER

"A heart attack was fatal for the Reverend Sipuel, prominent negro leader of the city last week in Oklahoma City.  He went to a garage in the city to have his car fixed which had been in a wreck.  When the garage man said it would cost $400 to repair the car he slumped with a heart attack from which he never recovered."

Such a lie to be posted by the media!

US Air Force Re-UP!

Another 6 years.... so proud of this strong-willing, beautiful daughter!

Subtle Family Changes in 2014

A new life ....

and one that ended.....

Truth is . . . .

Easter Celebrated with ~ The Aged, middle aged, the young, and the future

This year's Easter Sunday was one that I almost complained about.  It is in the aftermath of losing Papa Kirk less than a month ago.

But blessed indeed

Grandmother (great) is the Old

I am the Middle Aged

She is the young-energetic mother of three!

These are the great-grands......

And there are actually Two FUTURE great grandchildren expected in September and October 2014!