When the war in Europe ended, a 17 year old Lewis was given a major responsibility.
Nick Dyer is the founder of the St. Paul, Minnesota based company, WriteHistory™. WriteHistory™ specializes in personalized family histories, corporate histories, and end-of-life memoirs.
Mr. Jacobs speaks with me about losing his spouse
We had a great marriage. She was very low-key, if there was ever an argument you can bet that she didn't start it. But she always finished it. If there was the lynch-pin point to make, she thought of it. We were just two people and we meant a lot to each other. Worst thing that ever happened to me was when she died, because we had a real good thing there. She didn't have any specific diseases or much of a diagnosis with her heart. One day she just died it's too bad, but that's just one thing you can't do anything about.
How you handle death when you get older I guess depends on what you believe. I believe you don't lose your connection with people that you knew when you die. I don't know if anyone else believes that but I do. You could never prove it. You know, but to me it makes a lot of sense. It's part of a cycle like a plant growing. We are just beings that exist and live according to some natural sequence of events. It's hard it's very hard when you've been as married as long as we have. It's just like your right arm. She knew things I was talking about before I even said them. When someone that you've been married to or your friend dies, I don't think you really panic about it, you're really sad when something like that happens, but you realize that this is the way nature is and this is the way the plan is. Just like a rose bush or anything else. You've got to accept that the memories are all you have left, and you have to be happy about that. I still feel that way.
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New Affordable Family Biographies Available at www.writeahistory.com
Write History's goal is to provide affordable biographies and memoirs to the every-day citizen. We believe everyone has a story that should be passed on to their descendants, and we want to assist them in the process. At the same time, we want to create the best quality books possible. We don't interview over the phone, or print our books at Kinkos. We believe our books are heirlooms and create them to last.
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Wisdom is passed down through our elders. This story is from an older woman in St. Paul. She taught me a lot about life that day
My girlfriend, she got real sick. I says that's too bad, but she says, "Oh Jo, you should know, with all the problems you've had in your life - not big ones, but everyday stuff - that you play the hand you're dealt." I thought that just about it sums it up. You play the hand you're dealt. You don't know what's going to happen. You make big plans, and you should make big plans, but sometimes they don't all come true but life works out.
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New Audio Family History Story!
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The woman in this recording recalls past events in her young life growing up in St. Paul, Minnesota. She first tells a story of her "Grandma Vandermay" who would often visit her family at their home. The last story is about her brothers going off to World War II, and how all soldiers end up as casualties.
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Family Story: Farming Disaster in Hosmer, South Dakota
This story comes from a man who grew up in Hosmer, South Dakota in the 1930s. He lives today in Minnesota, but always remembers the day his family's darkest day. (The photo above is his parents on their farm)
Glenn: Hosmer, South Dakota was just a few buildings, but land was so cheap. Not that it was worth anything anyway. It was a little town, but I loved it. When we got to be teens, most guys left for other jobs, but some stayed and farmed.
We lived a mile and a half south east of town. We went to town when we could, but we didn't do much when we were there; walk around, go to a dance, There wasn't much to do, but all the teenage kids knew each other.
My dad wanted to go into purebred herfert livestock. Herferts are white-faced cattle, and he bought I think 200 head, which was a lot. That spring he put the cattle out to pasture, thinking the winter was over. A late blizzard came on the 7th of May. No one expected it. The snow piled up so high the cattle suffocated. He lost 140 out of 200 head. He went out and got a bunch of people together and skinned them all. They were saying when I was a kid, the hide was worth $12. So they got a bunch of wagons together and a team of horses. So they got some of the money back on it. They couldn't use the meat so they just sold the hides. I was 12 or 13, something like that. So we had to go out and drive the wagons when they skinned them. My cousin was a year younger than I, and we were leading some riding horses. We separated the live ones from the dead, and skinned them. It killed my family financially, it really brought them down. My father never completely recovered from that.
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