Strange, the things we remember from childhood …
I remember my grandmother, Mary Hannah (Clark) Cleary telling me that her grandmother had three children that died. I was a little girl, no more than ten or eleven years old, sitting at the top of the stairs at her home on Middle Street in Florence…
Recently, I requested and received a military pension file for my g-grandfather, who fought in the Civil War. I knew about his service years ago. In fact, a cousin conducted extensive research on our great-grandfather’s military service a number of years ago. I was not convinced that we would glean …