My good friend Hannah, made this comment at a Farmer’s Market several years ago. She and I share this generation trait. Even though our ancestors settled in the Honey Lake Valley in the 1860s, one would think that we would be at least sixth generation born, but we are about that half that.

Some families have major age differences. I will use my mother’s family as an example. My grandfather, John Tanner was born in 1882. His wife Lola Murrer was born in 1899. They were married in 1927. My mother, their youngest daughter was born in 1931. My mother’s first cousin Verna Tanner was only three years younger than Lola. Verna married Bill Haley (Clint’s brother for the older valley folks) and her children were the same age as of my mother, but a generation apart. Now my mother’s uncle Alfred Murrer, who was fifteen years younger than  Lola  married Emma Lee Gelmsted in 1951- the same year my mother and father (Leroy Purdy) were married My brother Gary, and Alfred and Emma Lee Murrer’s son, Johnny were born in  the same year. The bottom line, is my mother’s generation of first cousins spans over fifty years! If you are member of this wide generation shift you understand, while others ponder why wrote about it.

Tim

P.S. – Celebrate the  Spring Equinox today