My paternal grandfather who even my father never met.... Born in West Prussia, believed to have traveled east and was in Manila, PI when the US entered WWI. Rounded up there, brought through Angel Island, CA, and on to a camp for German Nationals at Ft Oglethorpe, GA. He was then on work-release to R E Lee Wilson and Company in Wilson, Arkansas. After the war ended, he went back to CA, filed the paperwork of his intention to become a US citizen, and was enumerated there in the 1920 census. He then returned to AR and dated my teenage American-as-applepie Grandmother with roots back to 17th century British North America. They married in May 1922, and she followed him to the area of E St Louis/Fairmont City for a job he had landed there. On the morning of his death, she was laid up with morning sickness, and asked him for a cup of water as he left for work. He turned to get it for her, and was stricken at her bedside. How often I have thought of how different our lives would have been if he had lived. RIP, Grandfather.
My paternal grandfather who even my father never met.... Born in West Prussia, believed to have traveled east and was in Manila, PI when the US entered WWI. Rounded up there, brought through Angel Island, CA, and on to a camp for German Nationals at Ft Oglethorpe, GA. He was then on work-release to R E Lee Wilson and Company in Wilson, Arkansas. After the war ended, he went back to CA, filed the paperwork of his intention to become a US citizen, and was enumerated there in the 1920 census. He then returned to AR and dated my teenage American-as-applepie Grandmother with roots back to 17th century British North America. They married in May 1922, and she followed him to the area of E St Louis/Fairmont City for a job he had landed there. On the morning of his death, she was laid up with morning sickness, and asked him for a cup of water as he left for work. He turned to get it for her, and was stricken at her bedside. How often I have thought of how different our lives would have been if he had lived. RIP, Grandfather.
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