[American Quilter]

LOL--that's great! I wish my ancestors had been pressed to be a bit more forthcoming. They appear to have been nearly all farmers except for a few men on my dad's side, including his father and grandfather, who were railroad men. My dad told us a story related to that. His family was gathered for Thanksgiving one year, and his mother called from the kitchen, "What time is it?" He called back, "It's 3:15." His father pulled out his railroad watch and said, "It's 3:17." His grandfather pulled out his watch and said, "And 20 seconds."

[Eva]

Most of my grandmother's family became railroad men, also, but the census that I was referring to was probably right after the civil war. The rail road didn't reach them until much later. One of my grandmother's brother was an engineer for the train down in Panama that they used to build the canal.

I have an interesting train story, too. After a big flood, maybe the Johnstown flood, a farmer who lived along the train tracks reported that a cemetery in the town up river had completely washed out and that two graves, or grave stones of the Lane family landed in their field and that once a week when the train went by two three men would jump off the train and put flowers by the stones. I knew right away that those men had been my grandmother's brothers and that the graves were of their maternal great grand parents. So, I solved the mystery for the farmer. I love genealogy, maybe because my grandmother's family has been in this country so long and they lived such long lives that the stories were all passed down by word of mouth.