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 [...]

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 [...]

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

My grandmother and great grandfather
Margaret Blessing and Jacob [...]