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A
Birthday to Remember…
Posted May 31, 2010
0800 hours, 31 May 1955. A frustrated Staff Sergeant Charles T. St. George
was in the pay line at Headquarters 1821 AACS Wing, South Ruislip, England.
He was relieved that he would soon have money to pay the hospital boarding fee
of three dollars daily. He would check out of his office and check his
wife, Christa, out of the maternity clinic where she was diagnosed with false
labor. [...]
Life and Love at the
Brimfield farm…
Posted May 17, 2010
Alice and John married when Alice was only 15 and he was 20. One of the first
things they did was to keep a small boarding house near where John worked for
the RR while the Hoosic Tunnel was being built. He worked as a lumberjack and
she cooked and cleaned for the single men [...]
A
Mother's Day Memory…
OBITUARY ALICE O. ST.GEORGE
DEVOTED MOTHER DEAD
Blind For Thirty Years,
Never Saw Six of Her Children.
Mrs. John St. George of Palmer
Eleven of Twelve Children Living; Well Cared For In Youth;
Remarkable Woman
Mrs. John St. George of Pleasant Street died at her home at about 2 o’clock
yesterday afternoon after a brief illness at the age of 65.
Mrs. St. [...]
Association
des LaPorte et St-Georges du Monde
“According to our
records, the great majority of LaPorte and
Quebec-descended St-Georges in America have the same
common ancestor in Jacques de LaPorte dit St-Georges.
Many people had a ‘dit name’ in North America. This
habit disappeared in the 1920’s in Quebec, following a
decree responding to the need to simplify the recording
and control of the population especially during
censuses.” — Yvan St-Georges. [...]
The May Ruth and
FDR story
May Ruth recently told me that
during the 1930’s she and her high school class were dismissed early
to join the crowd along Main and Thorndike Streets in Palmer,
Massachusetts to wave and cheer on President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt when he made his bid for re-election to his second term.
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