tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025948679246114989.post8144765571971009963..comments2008-06-12T09:00:05.814-07:00Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03191827688514996520noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025948679246114989.post-41897435197290446072008-06-12T08:59:00.000-07:002008-06-12T08:59:00.000-07:002008-06-12T08:59:00.000-07:00That's why I love genealogy--it opens a window into the lives of the ones who made US possible! Amazing stories about the people who made this country so great. Your grandfather was very lucky, indeed, to survive Andersonville...it sounds like it was Hell On Earth. <BR/><BR/>So, being a WA State native myself, how did your grandmother Reba come to live in Pasco, WA after being a Tennessee child? Was it the whole WW II thing that drew people out west? The maternal grandparents brought my mother out to WA state from Minnesota because of the War, and they settled up in Kitsap County, outside of Port Orchard (across Sinclair Inlet from the Bremerton Naval Shipyard, where my grandfather worked). I suppose the Great Depression also had a lot to do with so many families pulling up roots and settling somewhere they never thought they'd end up. I am guessing that your mother's family had something to do out at Hanford? Or am I not even close? :-)Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11622148536112962313noreply@blogger.com