Alexander Graham Bell’s granddaughter dies at 101

The Chronicle Herald ^ | October 31, 2006 | JOCELYN BETHUNE

[GMMAC]

Baddeck, Nova Scotia

[CAWats]

I assume she had a phone.

[lormand]

May she rest in peace.

Now she can "see the light".

[GMMAC]

PING!

[Rome2000]

Wow!

[Borges]

Is Antonio Meucci's granddaughter still alive? :-)

[wagglebee]

I can't imagine that she lived in northern Nova Scotia year round. Did she keep her family's home in Washington? Also, I'm almost positive the Bell family still has their hunting plantation in Thomasville, GA.

[Checkers]

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

[Verginius Rufus]

There's an interesting museum about Alexander Graham Bell in Baddeck--worth a stop if you're ever driving around Cape Breton Island.

[capt. norm]

Remembering those old black dial phones and their obnoxious ringers, I'm glad the man's name was not "Alexander Graham Siren".

[GMMAC]

"Is Antonio Meucci's granddaughter still alive?"

No one is really certain.
Although an announcement appeared in a newspaper at the time, evidently no formal record of her birth was ever filed.

[Borges]

Bell's grandaughter bribed the officials at the hospital to destroy all records of her birth. :-)

[Vigilanteman]

She marched with her mother and grandmother in Washington, D.C., in 1913 for women to get the right to vote . . .

Fascinating story and, to put it in perspective, Montana would be the 8th western state to grant women the right to vote the following year, then two years later (1916), elect the first female to serve in congress, one Jeanette Rankin, a Republican, who would have the dubious distinction of being the only member of congress to vote against American entry into both World War I and World War II.

[hnj_00]

maybe....but you know she is now surrounded by the network!!!!!

[Free Vulcan]

I love stories about living memories from the past.

I wonder what she thought of cell phones and how far we'd come.

[Atlas Sneezed]

LOL

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

And how far backwards we have gone in some ways...

[UnklGene]

[Free Vulcan]

You know, it's true. I mean, Einstein did relativity in 1905. The education system at the time was so superior even if the technology hadn't caught up. We just don't see that kind of radical advancement like what they did, sometimes literally out of nothing.The things they could do with their minds.

[GMMAC]

"I love stories about living memories from the past. "

Me too - that's primarily why I posted it.

I'd always wondered why several members of my extended family opted to join the Navy at the onset of WW2.
All were farm boys from rural Ontario who'd never set eyes on a body of water larger than Lake Huron and one in particular had a background in the Militia during the 1930's which likely would have virtually guaranteed him a Commission if he'd instead joined the Army.

So, about 25 years ago, I finally cornered an old uncle who was by then in his mid-80's and put the question to him over a few of drinks in his local Legion hall.

He told me in 1939, once war appeared inevitable, he and some other young fellows who intended to enlist sought out advice from some of the local men who'd served overseas in WW1.
Not surprisingly, none of these Vets foresaw the technological advances which were soon about to occur & all, accordingly, assumed the new war would be pretty much a replay of 'the Great War'.

My uncle told me, after hearing their horror stories about seemingly never-ending mud-soaked trench warfare, he and all the other young fellows decided, if worst ever came to worst, they "wanted to only get that wet once" and proceeded to join the Navy.

Straight goods - true story.