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July 2009 
How did your grandparents meet?
Posted on Jul 9th, 2009
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casspoe
casspoe
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for June 26, 2009:
My grandparents have a great life-story. It isn't anything high-drama or "out of the ordinary", but they were together for almost 50 years and that in itself is interesting!
I don't know the specifics of how they met- I think it was something similar to a "hook up". One of my grandma's friends knew a friend of my grandpa's and they arranged for them to meet. It was a relationship that only could have happened in the 50's because my grandma was only 16 and he was in his late 20's! Definitely something that would get you put in jail nowadays. On top of that, she got pregnant at 16 so that's what led to them getting married. It's not your Hollywood love story and a lot of people do end up getting married because of a pregnancy. But it wasn't void of love and they fell more in love and grew fonder of each other as the years passed.
They ended up having six kids, so I've inherited a big family (because 4 of those kids have kids...and those kids have kids...so I have serveral cousins and second cousins that live around me).
One of their children drowned when he was eight. They were camping at a lake and one of the older kids was jumping into the lake off a log that was a few feet above the water. The eight year old boy decided he was going to copy his brother and jumped in. He never came back up.
Besides that trauma, they've lived a typical life and have raised a great family. My grandpa passed away about 10 years ago and my grandma is still alive. My family has a lot of "young births" (meaning that most had babies while still in their teens or early twenties) so grandma has a few great- grandchildren to play with!
I don't plan on having tons of children, but it would be great to live long enough to see my family develop and grow. I would be very happy if I was like my grandma when I reach old age :)
I don't know the specifics of how they met- I think it was something similar to a "hook up". One of my grandma's friends knew a friend of my grandpa's and they arranged for them to meet. It was a relationship that only could have happened in the 50's because my grandma was only 16 and he was in his late 20's! Definitely something that would get you put in jail nowadays. On top of that, she got pregnant at 16 so that's what led to them getting married. It's not your Hollywood love story and a lot of people do end up getting married because of a pregnancy. But it wasn't void of love and they fell more in love and grew fonder of each other as the years passed.
They ended up having six kids, so I've inherited a big family (because 4 of those kids have kids...and those kids have kids...so I have serveral cousins and second cousins that live around me).
One of their children drowned when he was eight. They were camping at a lake and one of the older kids was jumping into the lake off a log that was a few feet above the water. The eight year old boy decided he was going to copy his brother and jumped in. He never came back up.
Besides that trauma, they've lived a typical life and have raised a great family. My grandpa passed away about 10 years ago and my grandma is still alive. My family has a lot of "young births" (meaning that most had babies while still in their teens or early twenties) so grandma has a few great- grandchildren to play with!
I don't plan on having tons of children, but it would be great to live long enough to see my family develop and grow. I would be very happy if I was like my grandma when I reach old age :)
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