Christopher Vineyard Family Group Sheet

 

HALLOWEEN

 1960

Vernon, Texas

This is when we lived on Texas Street. Our cousins would come join us for the fun of 

Trick-or-Treating. 

Back then, Halloween was celebrated by children only. A large Halloween carnival was hosted by Hawkins elementary. I think it was only on the bottom floor, but different rooms offered activities and sold tickets for people to participate. These activities were things like a cake walk, dunking for apples, etc. Everyone, children that is, would turn out in costume.  They sold all kinds of food in the cafeteria. It was truly a hometown center of fun. My costumes were usually the store bought variety of clowns or skeletons with the suffocating plastic mask that I could barely see out of. It evolved into making our own costumes which usually consisted of hobos and witches. When we left the carnival, Mother and Daddy would take me individually to go door to door in search of the trick-or-treat candy. They would follow along in the car. This wouldn’t last for long as it was usually getting late on a school night.  I remember pilfering through the candy and separating the things that I didn’t like and Daddy would usually finish it up.  

Sources For George Vineyard 1759-1852

 Sources for George Vineyard (1759-1852)

Vineyard, Truett. Interview by Jewell Bell Krauss. 1982. Great grandson of my George Vineyard 1756. Grandson of George Vineyard, Jr. 1838, who is brother to my Edna C Vineyard.

1810 United States Federal Census. Christiansburg, Montgomery, Virginia; Roll: 70; Page: 637; Family History Number: 0181430; Image: 00086. (NARA microfilm publication M252, 71 rolls) [online data: Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.]

1850 United States Federal Census. Western District, Scott, Virginia; Roll: M432_975; Page: 350A; Image: 1. [Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls)]

Morton, Oren Frederic. A history of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Staunton, Va.: McClure Co., 1920, p. 403. [Online publication - Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Ancestry.com Filmstrip #428]

Morton, Oren Frederic. A history of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Staunton, Va.: McClure Co., 1920. Miscellaneous data p 477. [Online publication - Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Ancestry filmstrip #502.]

Morton, Oren Frederic. A history of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Staunton, Va.: McClure Co., 1920, p. 537. [Online publication - Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Ancestry.com filmstrip #562.]

Summers, Lewis Preston. Annals of southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. Index p 747 filmstrip 1789 & Appendix Revolutionary Soldiers p. 1408 filmstrip 482. [Online publication - Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005]

Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). [Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010 filmstrip 610]

U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872. Ledgers of Payments, 1818-1872, to U.S. Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858 From Records of the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury, 1818-1872; [Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. T718: 1818 – 1872 / 07: Revolutionary War, 1831-1848, filmstrip 328.]

U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current. “George Vineyard.” [online data: Ancestry.com 2012

Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940. “George Vineyard & Mary Campbell,” FHL Film Number 33797. [online data: Ancestry.com 2014]

Worrell, Anne Lowry. A Brief of Wills and Marriages in Montgomery and Fincastle Counties, Virginia, 1733-1831; Roanoke, Virgina, 1932, p 9. [online data: familysearch.org/library]

https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/855417/?georgevineyard.blogspot.com

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https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/vineyard/944/

George Vineyard, Sr Family Group Sheet

 

George Vineyard, Jr. Family Group Sheet

 

First Date 1969

 

Mark Ramsey was my first boyfriend. He gave me his I.D. bracelet and took me on my first date, chaperoned by his parents, 8^th grade, to the First Baptist sweetheart banquet. His parents were in the car waiting for us. I wore the formal that was made for me to be the flower girl in my brother's wedding. I shifted away from Mark as we entered high school, yet he never really went away. He always made himself available should I ever break up with a steady boyfriend. I do have to say that we had some really fun times after I went to college. I would come home after the 1st summer semester, and I dated him some then, but never committed. I didn’t want to be tied down, but he would have been eager to establish a relationship. He was a great guy! 

See The Work

 To live with purpose is to do good things even when no one is looking. It's important to do things right for your own self-worth and integrity. My husband and I were raised to do things right and to not leave a job undone. I know that his mode of operandi is to pitch in whenever he sees something that.... just needs to be done. I worked hard, and still do, to get ALL the squares filled, probably to a fault, leaving no stone unturned until the job is completed.

I recently read an article in Reader's Digest that was titled SEE THE WORK. Simple advice from a quiet woman of few words was, "See the work" which means when you see what needs to be done, do it without being told. If toys are left out, put them away. If dishes are being washed, grab a towel and dry. The list goes on daily....to just see the work.