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My great grandfather on my mom's side came from Sweden, was a sailor in the Pacific Northwest starting at age 13, left the high seas at about twenty years of age and then became a farmhand by the Sacramento River. He went back to Sweden where he met my future GGM. They moved to the Dakotas where he homesteaded and raised his own children to be his farmhands.

My grandmother went to Swedish school along with her brothers. Her brothers inherited all the property which was the entire eastern half of South Dakota. Grandmother married a democrat from eastern South Dakota whose family was robbed of their plow horses by Jesse James's gang. To be honest, my grandpa's great grandmother WAS PLOWING THE FIELDS herself when Jesse James rode up and left her standing there with the rig and no horses.

On my dad's side of the family, they came from Germany. My grandfather was a chef on ocean liners as a young apprentice chef, worked his way up to head chef and later opened a mom & pop store in NYC wherein the family lived above it. If people who know their family history object to reparations and have proof they had nothing to do with slavery, I can see litigation as far as the eye can see involving trial lawyers, the IRS and it would deeply divide the country.

My Swedish ancestors were robbed by Jesse James. Let not their memory be robbed by Jesse Jackson too.

"To be honest, my grandpa's great grandmother WAS PLOWING THE FIELDS herself when Jesse James rode up and left her standing there with the rig and no horses. "

A high school friend of mine found out she was actually a decendant of Jesse James when a family member finally finished working on their family tree. Maybe you could get compensation from her family for those horses! ;)

my grandpa's great grandmother WAS PLOWING THE FIELDS herself when Jesse James rode up and left her standing there with the rig and no horses.

Yikes, Jesse was my cousin! I'm sorry your granny's horses were stolen, but hey, I had NOTHING to do with it. ;-) My great-granny would tell of Frank James coming at night to visit but she'd make the men folk stay on the porch because she didn't want the likes of him in her house.