Round Robin

It is time for me to do another round robin Schnelle letter. For those of you who do not know what that is about, it is letter package that has been circulating for some 50 some  years. It was started by Reuel, Emma, Ray, Ira generation. I recall hearing about it when Emma was still on the farm, AKA before 1963. I think it had been going on some time at that point. It is a... read the other letters, take out your old letter, add new letter and send it on to the next on the list operation. I inherited the duty after mother was returned.

I am not a natural letter writer, as my mother was. I had a difficult time with her grammar, and my difficulties with my own. My issue is I don't care about grammar, and cannot remember literal strings, aka words that are not not spelled as they sound. Also, I like to write in stream of consciousness, not in classic paragraphs, with a start, middle and end.

It was nice getting caught up with you all again. Time is having its way with we all.

Life has been kind of uneventful since the family gathering last August at Albert and Mary's for their 50 wedding adversity. Winter came and went finally. Summer was hot, fall dry, and winter is back. A whole year has come and gone, with the typical trips to see Sue's family in BC and Saskatchewan.  Sue had a second cousin come from France, so we took him on a Banff - Jasper trip. Two of Sue's brothers from BC met us in Jasper. After we returned, Sue and her cousin went to Sask, from where he left to return to France.

I did renew my personal engineering permit in the spring, but have not done much, mainly phone consulting with my old clients, but now that winter has set in, I am retired. The permit runs out in the spring, and will not be renewed. Well, it is not my intent at this time... fate willing.

Thanksgiving we had the whole of Sue's generation of family here from both BC and Sask. That was an experience which will likely not happen again. Age and illness is creeping up on several of those.

The garden was ok, and this was the ideal year for beets. Some of them were massive, volleyball sized things, not quite basketball sized. Most were 6 to 7 inch diameters, and a few as small as 4 inches. Detroit Reds.

I have become even more reclusive and eccentric in the year. This has resulted in me reading the ancients Greeks and Roman Stoics and adopting parts of there philosophy. It has been liberating and clarifying. I now understand effects on me of growing up in a household where my father had resentments toward his family of origin and many others. This, combined with the passive approach to parenting resulted in me, such as I am. Oh well, I now understand and have made steps to correct the most severe issues, but who cares. It was all the standards of the various times, and is all history, as told by the survivors.  

As some of you know, I started this blog, which has not resulted in the lively discussion I had hoped for. Oh well, I am just going through life for the first time, so it is all a learning experience anyway. Also blogging is fairly new and unexplored. It only appeals to a few and is a great study in human agendas, communications, or the lack thereof. Also it will just appeal to a computer comfortable subset of humanity, but not to those who are Facebook comfortable or unaware their data mining activities. Oh well, I am just doing life without parole, but the end is coming nearer.

Anyways, the round robin is on it's way soon. If anyone would like to join in, please advise.

Merry Christmas

Just to  wish you all ...
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Joyous Solstices
what ever may be appropriate.

OK, i'm not dead yet

Does anybody care?

Fed Up is in the movies

Fed Up is in the cinemas. It is a good effort for 1.5 hours. Too much to be said, too little time.

Ban sugar, acellular carbohydrates, lactose, eat fats, saturated and omega 3, mono if you like. Ban trans fats.

IMPORTANT MOVIE

http://www.dietdoctor.com/movie-junk-food-industry-fears

Ellen White Miller (nee Tully) 1935-2014

Ellen White Miller

• February 3, 1935 - February 5, 2014
• Greenville, South Carolina 

George Tully's daughter, my cousin
http://mackey.tributes.com/our_obituaries/Ellen-White-Miller-99372976

It is my understand that Ellen died of cancer after a short illness. Further, it is my understanding that she was married to a Jack, and that they had two adopted children. Tim, and Jennifer. I further understand that Jennifer has been returned.

http://mackey.tributes.com/our_obituaries/Ellen-White-Miller-99777517

Edgar Arthur Wright 1887-1950

Its Saturday night, nothing on TV, time for a story.

As you may recall, Edgar was Libby`s (1891-1984) husband. Now for the twist as in every good story, Adoloph (Ed) Meilicke was married to a Mary Wright (1989-1988), and here mother was a Dalton. So there you have it, on both sides of the family, both Schnelle and Meilicke, this Wright family is attached.

Edgar Aurthur Wright was born in Scotland County, Mo. on Feburary 8, 1887, son of Levi and Alice (Dalton) Wright. He married Libby (Carrie Elizabeth (Schnelle) on May 21, 1913. Libby met her future husband when she was attending collage at Kirksville. (Schnelle book) It looks like Edgar had a sister.

Adolph (Ed) H. Meilicke born April 30, 1887 in Dallas County County. Ed married Mary Virginia (Wright)  in 1915. Ed invented and patented a corn head saver attachment for a binder. He died of a heart attack (assumed ?) shortly after removing an water well pump and pipe from the well which was located on the front yard of their farm, Tuesday, November 13, 1923.  (voice of Karen R (Meilicke) I can still hear my grandmother telling me the story, leaving her with four little ones to raise the youngest being 7 mo old. Mary later married a gentleman surname of Cooley and with him had a son named Carmen Cooley.  

Later, we understand that Mary Wright, while married to _________ Cooley, but living separately ~1958~(Albert)~ lived across the road from this collage, and apparently, often walked the collage property at night, worrying about the future, or as the story said worrying about where the money to feed the kids would come from. The story also implied there was a lot of drinking going on by Mr. Cooley.

Also for all of my cousins, I have the contact information for Karen, so if any of you would like to have a chat with your second cousin, please let me know.

Picture: as a young lad http://meilickeancestors.blogspot.ca/2013/12/gustav-meilicke-family.html

References:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=wright&GSfn=edgar&GSiman=1&GScid=2335424&GRid=8285257


  Elizabeth Schnelle Wright (1891 - 1984)



http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=meilicke&GSiman=1&GScid=28020&GRid=81511183&

EMMA 7

5576-5589

Back into time

We are from the Samuel, Gustave, Gustav, Julius(gp) line. EJ is from the Christian (1), Christian (2), EJ, (Hugo) Line.

There was family schism over the temperance movement / alcohol.

Gustav, had brothers, Frederick, and Julius who emigrate to Mo, and/or WI.

EJ had speaks of Frederick and Uncle Julius in MO, WI.

Julius(gp) and Hugo concluded they were second cousins, but I do not see it.
The close that I see is Samuel and Christian (1) could have been brothers, making 3 rd cousins.

Table of Contemporary Generations 
EJ line                                                                            Our line
Christian (1),                                                                 Samuel ,
Christian (1805-1966) (2),  Julius                                   Gustave (1824-1881), Frederick, Julius
EJ, (1852-1934)      also had cousin Frederick               Gustav (1851-1927) em 1880
Hugo                                                                             Julius(gp)

Christian (1)
Christian Frederick Meilicke
Born. Christian Frederick married Altmann and had 2 children.

Children
Julius Meilicke
Christian Frederick Meilicke

Christian (2)  emg 1861 with family
Christian Frederick Meilicke
Born in Plonitz on 23 May 1805 to Christian Frederick Meilicke and Altmann. Christian Frederick marriedChristina Wilhelmina Schmidt and had 6 children. He passed away on 1866.

Gustave Meilicke1842-1929
Edward Meilicke1844-1931
Augusta Meilicke1851-Unknown
Emil Julius Meilicke1852-1934
Bertha Antonia Meilicke1856-1916
Herman Meilicke1856-1932

EJ's Frederick 

Frederick Meilicke 
See the family group records of newanc -> Minnesota -> Born-1874 -> Me -> Meilicke-family -> Frederick-Meilicke-grest-12.html.

Comments

Comments was not working. I have reset the Hovering thing, and regret the inconvenience this has caused to you and the world. So not Kelvin should be able to wax eloquent.

Indifference. To the Stoics, indifference to all things which were beyond their direct and complete control is the standard response. This is how I feel about all things computer / IT related.

What is under their complete and direct control? Not much. Our judgement, opinions, some non physical desires, beliefs after review, and perhaps some non physical aversions. Some thought more, some less. The only good is virtue, the only evil is vice. All else is indifference. Including computers, clouds, software switches, toggles, background processes, embedded objects, and turkeys.

Be happy. Soon we forget. Soon others forget us. All is impermanent. Enjoy what life has to offer in the now.

The Romans at the time of Marcus Aurelius said people are related by seed or by blood. I how you know what the mean. So the RNA is only transferred by blood, and DNA by both.    

Fred    

Contact

Yes, there is life out there. I have made contact with a second cousin, the grand daughter of Adolph (Ed), one of grand fathers younger brothers. More on this later.

A Black Post

Death

I am finding this family history site difficult for non obvious reasons, dealing with the dead. I find that the continual listing of the dead draining, depressing, sucking up all the dopamine and serotonin that I produce. So negative it would kill a battery at 100 paces. I am most likely in the last quarter of life so death, my own upcoming death is something that I need to rap my mind around, or deal with in some way. As Marcus Aurelius sort of put it: soon we will forget and soon after that, we will be forgotten. Memory lasts about as long as those we have know well. Stories perhaps another generation or two. Life is short, and we must learn to deal with our impending death.

In modern life, we are mostly sheltered from direct exposure to the dead and dying. Mortician's and funeral directors take care of most issues. Death denying religions (eternal life, Christians, Moors) protect us from the finality if we subscribe. Those without that subscription may have alternately subscribe to a reincarnation, or chose to deal with reality, the soul, spirit, directing mind or what ever you name it, the thought pattern portion of us, demises along with the physical portion. When the plug is pulled, it is all over.

Now some of us choose the Stoic approach, going along with nature, without regard for potential address change, and accept the end is final to the realm of the living. We are returned to where we came from, or not. Children come to visit the living, and seniors and others are returned or not. It is beyond our knowledge. We can choose to be concerned about living well, in accordance with nature, prudently, justly, moderately, frugally. Unlike the Buddhist that say, reincarnation, rebirth, relocation; it is your choice to go up or down, the Stoic have a real concept, death is final, so anything you want passed along, you had bloody well pass it while you are alive. The typical legacy, even then, was your name chiselled into stone.

This blog may take a turn toward pictures and stories to spare my dopamine and serotonin or not, or just go stale, I do not know.

The artefacts must also go somewhere afterwards, so if you want them, speak up in the comments, otherwise Nicole may just put them in the dump.

Be well, eat real food, breath deeply, smile easily, and enjoy what life has to offer. Daoish. ft