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    Joe SylvesterSep 26, 2020 at 3:39 pm

    I met Mary once. Her family were neighbors to the Harrisons, who lived on 48th just north of Superior. Mary’s House was not all that near 27th, it was well east of 33rd in fact, just east of where Superior crosses Salt Creek. at 44th and Superior. Back when Superior was a gravel road, my Dad and I were coming back from visiting a friend of his, John Story, who had a place north of Arbor Road on 27th where, he kept his herd of pony’s. Grandma Sylvester was a Harrison, and so Dad knew Mary continuously from his Childhood days in Havelock. Mary was walking into Havelock, so Dad stopped to give her a ride. So there I was, setting between Dad, and Bloody Mary, though she wasn’t called that then. She was a nice older lady. Pretty much a contemporary of my grandma, who was a Harrison, but Grandma had died when I was 4, a few years earlier. They lived only a bit over half a mile apart, which in the country is a close neighbor. Two of my great uncles were closer to her age, born in 1889 and 1891.

    Later, during the 1972/73 school year, when I was in AF ROTC at UNL, I met her great nephew and then his sister, her great niece, who were also in AF ROTC. They were both Rocket Alums too, as am I (class of ’68 for me, ’70 for the nephew and ’71 for the niece). I forget their names though, but their last name was Pennington.

    Something about the timeline on this story didn’t seem quite right. So I looked her up from the Wikipedia article. She was born in 1889, while my Grandma Anna Elizabeth Harrison (first baby baptized in the original St. Patrick’s church (the one before the one that was replaced a few years ago) was born in December of 1892.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Partington

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