Elizabeth Crauswell

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Biography

I was orn in Bessemer Hospital on a very cold January day - so my mother tells me. The first due date was Christmas 1952, that came and went, the January 1st was set. Finally, I decided to have a January 4th birthday. The family lived in Pugh's Village at the time. Within a year or so, we moved to a house on the road leading to Unity Baptist Church. The next house was at the end of McClain Road in a hickory- log house owned by Lonnie White. I started school at Concord Elementary School and continued there until the Christmas break in the 3rd grade when we moved to a house on a crushed rock road off Camp Oliver Road. I finished the 3rd grade at Oak Grove School and continued there until the summer of ny 7th grade when we moved to a house on Mount Olive Road, near Partridge Crossroads, a year later moved into the house my paternal aunt and uncle, Inez and Claude Rhodes built on Warrior Jasper Road just west of Partridge Crossroads. We attended Union Missionary Baptist Church and I went to Corner High School from 8th to 11th grade. I graduated Cordova High School in 1971 because I made a very bad jugdment of marring a boy from Dora, his aunt offered us a house free rent which was in Cordova. I didn't attend college, earned Costomology license in 1972 and worked in that field for several years until marring Gene Verchio 6 Sept 1974 and he moved me into his aprtment in Fairlawn, OH. We celebrated our 49th wedding anniversay Sep 2023! Gene and I have lived in Bolingbrook, IL since June 1978 but have never considered Illinois home we have 'been going to move' for the last 40 years. It was probably in 1986 or so that I became interested in learning who my ancestors were. I knew my maternal grandmother and all her siblings and mother and my cousins, first meet my maternal grandfather in 1971. I knew my paternal grandparents and all my aunts and uncles and some of the 1/2. So I started with the Crauswells, writing letters at first. After I had a PC I and internet access, I joined ancestry.com. The more I learned the more interested I became. Recently, I've begun to identify just how interconnected both sides of my family is. I haven't discovered a way to actually show it, I'm working on it! As I add names to this site, I am doing so one at a time so that I can do a bit of 're-working'. Recently I submitted ancestry.com DNA test - the results haven't been surprising, though it has lead me to a cousins I had not yet discovered. I don't really understand genealogy DNA so for now I'm holding things loosely. Speaking of holding loosely, I have been working on my family genealogy long enough to have learned to hold my ancestors loosely so that when it is proved I have followed the wrong tree or branch or root, it doesn't hurt so much to have to let them go.

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• First-hand information, I wrote this about me.