52 Ancestors Week 4 - Invite to Dinner [closed]

Question

AJC - This week is "Invite to Dinner." Which ancestor would you most want to invite to dinner? Do you have a story of a memorable dinner with an ancestor? Is there a special recipe that's been handed down?

Who would you invite to Dinner of all your ancestors and relatives? And WHY?

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oops this needs to be an answer

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I can think of dozens of relatives who are no longer here that I would like to sit and chat with over dinner, as I have countless questions for them. But if I had to narrow it down, I would invite my great grandparents, William Stewart and his wife Alice. I know almost nothing about their families. It would be nice to hear what tales they could tell.

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I would like to invite my maternal grandmother to dinner.  She passed away in 1943 at the age of 21 when my mom was only 6 weeks old.  There aren't that many people alive today that remember her.  All of her siblings along with my grandpa are deceased.  My mom and I do have her diaries so we were able to glean a little of what she was like when she was younger.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/White-29333

EDIT: Is there anyway someone can move this to the answer section instead of comment?

EDIT #2: Moved to the answer section.  Thanks Robynne.

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I think you can repost this as an answer. but I am still counting this.

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I would invite all my brick wall relatives or those there is debate about. The table would consist of me to take notes AND My great grand mother Otillie Priebe Lange b. In Prussia in 1860d in Oregon; my great grand father way back Thomas Warren Sr. Of Maryland and Virginia To get his wives names, my great grandfather x 6 Thomas Montgomery to find out where he is buried in Ohio,  my ggrandmother x 7 Ann Bennett of PA to find her maiden name, my ggreat grandfather John Redwine to untangle my GA, AR and TX Redwine line, and finally My great grandfther x 7 Henry Collins d. 1793 of Derry Mifflin co PA to find out his wife Rachels maiden name, his Parents, her parents and all that detail needed.

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Week 4 and for what? I was 4 years to late in finding my bio father. How much I would enjoy having him over and cooking my ex wife's favorite... spaghetti omelette!!

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Week 4 in the 2018 challenge...

Answer 1

Of all my ancestors I would love to sit down to dinner with my 3rd great grandfather, Joshua McKean.  The obvious reason would be because he has been my major brick wall for years, but mostly I would just love to talk to him. I love all things Scottish and I'm sure he would have a wonderful Scottish brogue. I'm sure he has some wonderful tales to tell of his homeland.

Answer 2

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Hess-4101-1

I would invite Mahlon and Sarah Hess' family to Dinner.  He is my husband's 2nd great-uncle, and from our home town. His family lead a very interesting life here. All of them contributed to our town and church.

They had 15 children, and only one set of twins. 

I can only imagine what it would be like to sit at a table with his family chatting in the late 1800's, out in the country surrounded by all the beautiful trees, a little bit of wilderness still there and his horses roaming free.

What a feast that would be.

Answer 3

I would like to invite my grandfather https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Elgey-4  to dinner he died when I was 10 and I would dearly have liked to discuss his father and grandmother.

She made a small fortune in property and he gave at least half away then ost the other half by not insuring his property. My mum knows some of the story but would love to know more

Answer 4

I would definitely pick my 6x-grandmother, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-391695

Nothing is none about her -- not her name, where she was born, or when she died. All we know is that she had four sons by minimum of three different men, and that her sons petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly to change their surnames from Barrett -- their LNAB -- to their various fathers' surnames.

I would just have to question her over dinner. Where did she come from, what was her family like? What led her to having these children by so many different men? Was she married and cheating on her husband? Was she single? Was she a prostitute? What became of her?

Answer 5

I would love to have dinner with my great-grandparents, Patrick and Catherine Coyne. Besides the obvious questions about their parents, grandparents, and siblings, I would want to know what it was like to leave their families and go to a new land. And how they met, since they both came to the US years before they married.

Comments

Just noticed the date. Big OOPS.

Answer 6

I would invite my grandparents and ask them about all the history of our family. I regret every day that I didn't save the photos from my fathers boy scouts before my grandma died. I regret not writing down everything she told me. I would invite my pap because I never asked him about his family. I never knew my his mother was alive until after she died.

Answer 7

There appear to be two questions for Week 4... the other one is similar, who would you most like to meet.

I would love to have dinner with my mom and dad, and ask them so many questions I never thought to talk with them about, mostly about family... their parents and grandparents.  I am trying to leave a bit more for my own children to follow if they would like, doing some writing, and piecing together as much of our collective ancestry as I can.

Answer 8

I would like to invite my mother and my husband's father to the same dinner that my husband and I would host. Neither of them were still alive when my husband and I met and married. I would have liked to have met my husband's father and my husband would have liked to meet my mother. My husband's father died with ALS and my mother died with pancreatic cancer--both taken far too soon. We would also invite their respective spouses, of course, and just have a wonderful family dinner.

Answer 9

Hands down, my paternal grandmother Mattie (Meredith) Vincent. I'd cook a country ham for her. Then I'd have her bring her sauerkraut and strawberry preserves. I'd ask her to make homemade biscuits, fried apples, potato pancakes, and pinto beans (with ham bits), with her little fried apple tarts for desert. My paternal grandmother and her sisters were all excellent cooks!