Crow family (I've Got a Secret 2/24/64) 

What a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing that with us!

Evelyn Baldwin who was Gertrude Baldwin?

@@robinheuver9620 The one in the pale dress sat on the left.

thank you for sharing this tidbit story. Your great grandparents were born way way before the airplane was invented. Incredible to think of that.

@@disneygirl2302 They were born before the automobile or washing machines, or most things common today. They had core removers with apple peeler, ice cellars, and tools none of us could identify even back in the 60s

My family has longevity on both sides. It can be both a blessing and a burden.

let’s face reality. Not every family sticks together. Many have bad blood and that is life.

@@ddivincenzo1194you’re irresponsible and negative

Oh Wow!

These things are really amazing!!!!

Hi Cheryl. Just now looking back at these comments -- I remember Opal so very well. Bless her heart - she cared for her parents even when she herself was elderly and had little money. Remember, the old folks were retired long before Social Security was even a law. The only help they got were the surplus food boxes. But when 'the clan' came around -- huge meals seemed to be almost miraculously on the table. If they didn't have all the ingredients, they knew good substitutes. Besides, listening to all their stories was better than any food on the table. Great grandparents were born just after the civil war and lived to look up in the skies at the sputnik satellite! Talk about living through change. Great grandpa loved the Tigers. He became nearly a legend because he wrote the coaches every year about what the team needed. He knew the scores and plays for the Tigers from games that occurred before the team players were born. Sometimes a coach would call just to talk to 'Pa' -- now that was a thrill. When the old folks died - no large reunions ever happened -- they were the force that held everyone together.

Did your great grandmother and her sister marry brothers (named Fisher)?

@@Jaxsf1 no -- just had the same last name

@@Jaxsf1 yes Opal and Mamie did.

It is on, with Anthony Anderson or someone and it's stupid and the secrets are usually dirty.

@@zacsdiyguns They brought back "TO TELL THE TRUTH " and its popular

@@pattycake9183 Yeah, I hate it! His mommy is an arse!

@@pattycake9183 I was thinking the same thing.

I love that idea… I’d sure watch!

Andrew Johnson wasn't elected! He became president after the President Lincoln chocked on his meal in the oval office

you’re a nitwit

I am Gertrude's granddaughter and had two sons -- what part of the family are you from?

Did they make it to their 75th anniversary?

Wow this is really cool I love being able to watch the old shows on RU-vid

@@teriannebeauchamp254 no they did not. Grandma Crow died Jan of the following year.

@@evelynbaldwin3212 I am Daisy's granddaughter.

It is some of my favorite childhood memories going to listen to Grandpa Crow play the violin or watch him whittle making one.

His fingers were still so nimble at 95 years old. This is a wonderful, beautiful story and it's lovely to have it as a living memory of your family.

It became a state just after they were married in 1890, not when this aired in 1964.

@@kathyjuola6317 Oops! I was slightly inebriated when I posted that. That's what I meant and super thanks!

I was glad that she was wearing glasses. lol

I thought the same thing. 😅

Many Americans are descended from Mayflower passengers, I am! But I wouldn’t call those with common ancestors relatives necessarily. My sister and her husband are 11th cousins but they aren’t related by DNA whatsoever. Interesting stuff!

@@____username____ my grandmother’s maiden last name was Southworth, she told me I was a descendent of the mayflower.

@@shirleyales1537 interesting!

The 1800s is not a century!

@@eggy543 Your point? I could have called that group of years the nineteenth century, but some people would mistake that with the 1900s. If you wish to get technical, the nineteenth century began January 1, 1801 (not 1800).

She went by Pearline -- first name Sarah -- maiden name Vaughn -- are you family?

Those were flowers made from tissue paper from their grandchildren.

Good one 😄

I was told that there were two 'fiddles' that great-grandpa made. One went to a folk art museum (in NY but not sure) and the other went with one of the family -- no one would admit taking it. It would have been a family battle as you might imagine.

@@evelynbaldwin3212 they are both with the family, but a cousin of Grandpa's, Taylor Crow use to make violins and other instruments out of matchsticks that are in the Smithsonian museum. I have had the privilege of seeing the violin made with matchsticks in person.

Times where harder back then. They also lived through The Great Depression, The Spanish Flu, WWI, and WWII. Any of those things would take its toll on a body. Manual labor is stressful on the body. They also didn’t have the skincare routines and creams like we do today.

michigan

Indiana and Michigan

As the family would always let us know -- they were raised 'river-water Baptists' -- no smoking -- at least not the great grandparents.