WE BEGIN OUR JOURNEY ..

This will be a "Journey Back In Time"!!

My mother, Leona Mae Shrider Grissom, was born January 24, 1909, the daughter of Levi and Etta Blanche McCurdy Shrider. Mom knew very little about her mother’s family as she was only 13 years old when her mother died. There had been a big upset in Blanche’s family and the only family members her mother ever talked about were her brothers, Arthur and Ernest and a sister, Esther. She did remember that Blanche’s mother’s name was Dollie. She thought Dollie’s last name was Bowen but she wasn't sure. She has also told us that her mother went to Ohio and brought Arthur’s daughter, Helen, back to live with them when her mother died and that when Arthur remarried and she took Helen back to live with him it broke her mother’s heart. When the family went to Ohio they always visited Uncle Arthur and his children, Helen and Richard. This is the information I had when I started out on this quest to get to know my ancestors.

This will be an ongoing process .. I spent two years deeply engrossed and very excited about researching not only my McCurdy ancestors but also the paternal side of my Mom's family, the Shriders, and on my Dad's family .. the Winnett's and the Grissom's. This was one of the most enjoyable things I have ever done!! I have many notebooks of information and pictures. The hard part of doing this blog and probably the most time consuming part .. will be figuring out the best way to present it to you .. but I will do my best!!

Collecting this information was a labor of love for my parents. Posting the information will be a continuing labor of love in memory of my parents and for my family .. the descendants of Noble and Leona Shrider Grissom.