i absolutely love that i found this written about my great great grandmother on the internet: "Jennie ------ ---- was the first schoolteacher in [town]. Her sisters came to [town] when she wrote '...there are lots of men here.’" (edited for safety from googling family history buffs that are related to me)

yeah. i'll bet there were lots of single men in arizona in 1877.

jennie's son was the one who was seduced by my butcher-knife wielding great grandma. (she was from back east too.) yep. she was the one who thought a good way to kill a chicken would be to hang it by it's feet from a clothesline and stab at it. i guess the first lady who kills a chicken in your honor when you come home from war wins.

great stories.

i should go to the annual family gathering next year. they gave me a thousand dollar scholarship and all... ha! no way. they're a corporation now. i love that. and dude. my name is on their website as the first recipient.