Monday, Monday (26th)
My husband called in sick today, which is a very rare occurance, But, with all of the flu around it seemed best not to expose or be exposed to more illness. The big event for the day will be for us to go to the local grocery store and quickly pick up a few things since he looks and feels better than yesterday.
I renewed my membership in the Association of Professional Genealogists today. My membership expires in December.
I received a snail mail thank you from the wife of the President of the Thomas Stanton Society since I did a act of genealogical kindness and mailed her a copy of Grace Denison Wheeler's An Old Fashioned Stonington, Conn., Love Story. Copies were distributed to each person who attended the Denison reunion. Many members didn't want their copies so I took several that were left on the table and I have been mailing then to people who are either Denison or Stanton descendants. I feel myself getting Grace Denison Wheeler "fever" again as I have located and photographed her parents gravestones!
I spent the rest of the day working on gravestones and corresponding with Mary Jane Cook who is a Gates descendant. Her gravestone photos of the old stones in the Lower Mystic Cemetery are much better than mine and since they are not older, the time of day she took hers is probably a factor. So, they will be retaken next summer when I got back to Mystic/Groton. MJ tells me of a juicy nature an illegitimate child in this line. I find the book at Amazon, written by a current historian at UConn and used the preview to find the paragraph referenced. {eyebrows raised here]
Wrote my Tombstone Tuesday for tomorrow and today's gravestone post about J. Warren Burrows who was lost at sea.
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