Dad's Home Going
We laid to rest our father, Alec P. Vaughan, Jr. yesterday, April 14, 2015. It was a day to remember with celebration, music and honor.…
Learning that you're not as strong emotionally as you thought you were is a hard pill to swallow. I've always thought of myself as stable,…
My nephew came today to spend time with his grandfather who has alzheimers. Timmy loves his granddad and today was not his first visit to…
If you follow this post often, you're aware that I'm a sort of newly retired educator who has begun raising chicks. One year ago, my…
My grandfather's house is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places but it probably ought to be. It's one of those buildings built…
My grandfather's shotgun farm house (circa 1911) has been uninhabited for at least a decade or more. His youngest daughter lived on the land and…
Both my Mother and Father were raised in the countryside in South Carolina a few "country miles" from one another. My Dad was born at…
My grandfather, Alec P. Vaughan, Sr. and grandmother, Agnes Loper, were married January 1, 1908 in Hampton, SC. At that time, my grandfather was a…
My grandfather's house was built between 1908-1911. It had no water running through pipes but had a hand pump in the kitchen. There was no…
Our eighteen month old grandson's crib is located in his mother's former room. Now vacant, the ironing board has been set up in there and…