WOW, my family history!!

[Bishop1]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I was on another forum and they were talking
about old landmarks in San Antonio, Texas.
I called my mother because she grew up there.

She told me to ask about Bowen's Island which is my grandmother's
maiden name.

My Uncle John Bowen bought the property and renamed it
Bowen Island in San Antonio and you will see on the plaque
that he was a Unionist and helped fugitive slaves!!!!
I am so thrilled to know this!!

He became the first United States Postmaster in San Antonio!

He also founded the town that I grew up in and we have a
plaque there on the town square.
I've never seen this until today!!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...ctive%26sa%3DN

http://www.granadahomes.net/pages/history.htm

addendum to above geneology;

Many many years ago
when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow
who was pretty as could be.

This widow had a grown-up daughter
who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
and soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.

My daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.

For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.

Father's wife then had a son,
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.

My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
She is my grandma too.

If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
It simply drives me wild.

For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa.

Author unknown


NOTE *
Any And All Plaques That Refer To The Above
have since been destroyed
derict by the decendants of the above fiasco.