Two posts today.

DID YOU KNOW . . . that your fourth great grandfather, William Fotheringham, was the first in his family to join the church?  He came to America after joining the church.
He was called from the pulpit to serve a mission to India.  He and sixteen other Elders were called at the same time,  They were the very first missionaries ever to go to India.  The book "Nothing More Heroic," by R. Lanier Britsch tells about that experience and Grandfather's journal was one of the journals used to write it.


DID YOU KNOW . . . that Aunt Donetta/Mom has a terrible phobia about mice.  It came from Aunt Fay putting her to bed when she was babysitting her, when she was very little.  Aunt Faye would tell Donetta that if she got out of bed the mice would bite her feet.  That terrified her so baldly that she never got over it.

Now, fast-forward to this week.  Donetta was working in the yard when a mouse came out of the bushes.  She wanted no part of having a mouse near her house, so she picked up a stick and prodded it out to the street.  Then she guided it with her stick down the walk toward the end of the street and beginning of the mountain.  As she was guiding it down the street, some kids came out of their house to watch, and asked her if she was out walking her mouse.  How I would LOVE to have a picture of that!😂

DID YOU KNOW  Grandma Birdean and her cousin Helen Sticney were graduating from high school.  Helen's mother, Aunt Ruby sent grandma a real pink rose.  It was so thoughtful and grandma loved it.  Grandma's parents didn't go to the graduation.  They were moving to Spring Lake.  She stayed that night at her friend, Sylvia's house, and the next day tried to find her way home (wherever that was.)

She found a bus leaving for Spring Lake and got on it, hoping she could find out where she lived.  When she got to Spring Lake, she started to get off the bus, when a girl took hold of her arm and said,"stay on the bus.  I'll show you where to get off."  When the bus stopped on the street where the girl, Helen Carter lived, they got off.  Helen took her to grandma's new home.  That was the beginning of a friendship that lasted for many years.

Helen's father was named Warren Carter.  He and grandma's mother were sweethearts when they were young.  They wanted to get married, but their parents objected.  Warren's family had already picked out his mate (whom he married.)

DID YOU KNOW . . . that your great grandfather, Otto Fotheringham, was with Louisa Wilhelmina Yorgenson, after your great grandmother died in a car accident.  Louise had a raccoon that she kept on the back porch in a wooden cage.  Raccoons wash everything before they eat it.  We loved watching the raccoon wash whatever was given to it before eating.  Aunt Faye thought it was really funny to give the raccoon a cube of sugar and watch it wash it until the sugar was gone, and the raccoon was confused.  Faye would keep giving it sugar cubes and laughing.