for Sara, the genealogy junkie

Sara never got to enjoy the last post about great, grand mother's 100th anniversary. It shouldn't have mattered that much. She was only related to Mom Jackson by marriage. But, of all people who are positive spin-meisters, Sara was in a league of her own. She promoted everyone's qualities. She loved to tell anecdotes...then told and retold. Mom Jackson's life story had elements of an epic poem but probably was no different in scope than countless other widows in Appalachia, or anywhere for that matter. What was special about this tale was that it was our heritage… our ancestor whose survival was a key in the family cow-path. Sara was a genealogy junkie. As said above, she never saw the previous post about Mom Jackson. But she would have loved it. (predictably, anything I did in her eyes was awesome) More about that later. -James