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My brother Jay recently modfied the beer labels from my great grandfather’s brewery and customized them so I can put them on my homebrew beer bottles.

Old Port Lager Label

Old Port Lager Coaster

Premo Label

Today my family and I traveled to Rockport Indiana and witnessed the launching of the flatboat recreating Lincoln’s 1828 journey to New Orleans.

While Lincoln was building his flatboat he stayed in one of my ancestor’s homes. A humorous story about Lincoln and my family can be found here

A plaque was also dedicated commemorating the journey and Lincoln’s immortal saying “If I ever get a chance to hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard”

We also located Greathouse Road and Greathouse Cemetery near Lewisport Kentucky

 
The Greathouse Cemetery can be found at
N 37 degrees 57′ 29.5″
W 86 degrees 50′ 26.2″
A listing of the stones can be found here

 

This blog post is a work in progress documenting the trips in Indiana and Kentucky that I have taken with my family to find out more about our ancestors. I have pages setup that document my pionner ancestors in Kentucky and their migration to Indiana in the early 1800’s. Information will be slowly added to these posts as I gather additional information.

The following links document my Grandparents, Hugh and Margaret Greathouse and Hugh’s parents Jacob and Bessie Lee Hales Greathouse. I also have info about Bessie Lee’s parents, the Civil War Hero, Hugh Hales and Jacob’s parents, James and Catherine Scammahorn Greathouse. I also have posts about Catherine’s parents Jacob and Jane Scammahorn and James’s parents John and Elizabeth Grass Greathouse

I also have info about both John and Elizabeth’s parents, Harman and Mercy Greathouse and Daniel and Jane Smithers Grass and Jane Smither’s father, my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather Bill Smithers

  

My great-aunts and uncles:
Aunt Hoppe - Carrie Ruby Hales
Hugh - born 12 Aug 1898 (my grandfather)
Evelyn - born 7 Jan 1901
Lida - born 19 July 1904
James - born 24 Mar 1907
Bessie D - born 7 Apr 1910
Helen - born 19 Nov 1916
Rexall - born 3 Jan 1913

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My grandmother and great grandfather
Margaret Blessing and Jacob Greathouse

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Margaret Josepha Blessing
Born: 24 Mar 1900 - Chicago, IL
Married: 26 Oct 1924 - Franklin, Ky
Parents: George Blessing and Eva Bechtel
Eva’s parents were Martin Bechtel and Margaret Heck
George was born in Duesseldorf, Germany 5 Feb 1859
Married Eva in 1887 while living in Chicago
Miss Katie Bechtel of Chicago attended George Blessing’s funeral.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=phschue&id=I4087

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Margaret Blessing moved to Rockport Indiana during the 1920’s to teach school. There she met Hugh Greathouse and they were married. They would later move to Port Washington, WI during the great depression, hearing there was work. In Port Washington Margaret taught school for many years and Hugh was a welder.

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Hugh graduated from Rockport High School in 1916. He was the artist for the first yearbook ‘Beech Leeves’. Below is his high school picture and a few examples of his art work.

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George Blessing’s House
in Port Washington, WI

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Margaret, George, Ethel and Eva Blessing
Placeholder for Port Premo Beer