Hunting the LIFE of a great Antique is much like tracking the Genealogy of a Family
For the last 15 years I have been "aggressively" working on our family genealogy. As a small child, I had an above average interest in my ancestors, much due to my mother's personal interest in her family history. She would recount the names of our family to me and tell me stories about different individuals as they were shared with her by her mother and aunts throughout the years. Her father's father had been a captured civil war soldier who died in Rock Island, Illinois, where we later moved near, in my teens. My grandfather was a Tennessee postmaster and received personal recognition for his service from President Nixon. My grandmother kept the written document hanging on their bedroom wall with pride. Additionally, my grandmother loved to brag of her early years babysitting Max Baer Jr , who grew up to act the role of Jethro Bodine on the television sitcom, "The Beverly Hillbillies" . My mother, as a teenage girl, had worked in a WWII military camp as a...
