Following a local genealogical society meeting last night, I have been thinking about what is lost forever when another person dies. I feel fine, but I wanted to get down some things of which I am the last keeper. Otherwise, when I go, they go. The first was a memory of my Dad and namesake, [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 1, 2009
Remembering great grandpa’s firearm
I’m not a hunter. I’ve never fired anything more serious than a BB-gun at any living creature (and I never hit anything alive). One of my prized possessions, however, is a 19th Century black powder rifle. I came into possession of this firearm sometime after my Dad, also Deason Hunt, died back in the early [...]
