Welcome to another Weekend Chat, my fellow Chatterboxes. And greetings from Cathey’s Creek where the air is cool, but not cold, and there is rain in the forecast for this weekend. Flowers, shrubs, and trees are hunkering down for the long mountain winter.
On the Home Front: This has not been a good week.
My step-dad’s cancer has not shown up in another CAT scan on one of his kidney’s. He will be talking with an oncologist soon about treatment options. One thing he has definitely decided is that he will not do full-blown chemotherapy. He is very tired all of the time, and this may be his body’s reaction to the cancer. He will probably postpose any treatment until he moves to Florida with his older daughter. His younger daughter has taken him to Atlanta until after Thanksgiving.
Him being gone for the next few weeks will give us time to move stuff into his large basement. Twelve boxes of books are ready to go, and there are three pieces of furniture in our garage that can be moved right away. His daughters and grandsons are not helping by taking stuff they should want. That means we’ll have to have an estate sale before we can be fully settled at our new home.
More bad news: My wife has had a diagnosis that has frightened the wits out of me. My one great fear is having to live without her. We have an appointment in Hendersonville later today. Probably a biopsy only.
I am under tremendous stress right now, and that usually leads to depression. I feel it creeping up on me.
On the Genealogy Front: This has been a great week.
I have been adding aunts and uncles and their descendants to one of my neglected families, the Moores of Old Lincoln County (now Gaston County), North Carolina. It seems, like so many others who lived in the same area in the early 1800s, that they had the wanderlust. Some families, particularly the German ones, migrated to SE Missouri. My Moores, joined by others, migrated to eastern Texas.
Records for these descendants are spotty, but there are enough of them to get a good set of profiles accomplished. Apparently, a few of these lines ended rather quickly with few or no descendants. However, I stumbled across on family that had loads of kids. One of the children married a lady from another large family whose patriarch came from Ireland as a single man. He met a fine Texas girl and had a passel of kids.
I’m not going to work the in-law family up, but if you are interested in an Irish-American family, here’s the profile of the one who married into my family. I put in a research note that links to her family.
Greeting is still going full bore. We lost two greeters, but have picked up two new greeters. We could still use more! Let me know if you are interested.
Have a most blessed of weekends, my dear fellow WikiTreers.
Enjoy the Chat!