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From: "alittlemermaid" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #292
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:33:18 -0600
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Although I have lived in Texas for many years, I do not consider myself a
Texan, but an Eastern Shore girl through and through. However, I must
provide an interesting story about one of our Eastern Shore teachers from my
high schools days.

I had visited my father in San Antonio, Texas a few times prior to moving
permanently and did the obligatory trip to the Alamo. Upon my return after
one Christmas holiday, our history class started studying Texas history. Of
course, this included the Battle of the Alamo, that as per our teacher, was
fought in Houston. I, of course, was sure to correct him.


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Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #292


> In a message dated 12/8/03 5:01:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
> In the 60's when I was in the Armystationed in TX, I too was asked where I
> was from. I replied "Delaware", and they asked what State is that in!
> ----- Original Message -----
> You should have said the North East! Texas is much too big to
> understand that anything smaller could be a state, certainly not
> Eastern Shore or Mid-Adlantic! In defence of their ignorance of
> Delaware, the first time I came to spend the summer with my Dad
> in Ocean City in the late 50's, I was asked, having come from Oklahoma,
how
> it was living in a reserveration and when I told them we had television,
they
> just were totally shocked and wanted to know where we plugged them in on
those
> animal skins.
> I think different regions of the country tend to isolate themselves and
some
> only know what they learn in American History about each state, I believe.
> Evidently the Texans missed the day on Delaware. I don't know of an
excuse for
> the Marylanders because they were college graduates and should have
received
> at least a second dose of history??? Do you suppose that the reason
> our ancestors are a bit hard to find at times is because they moved and
the
> accents and possibly the ignorance of the people they were giving the
> information to about where they lived before
> the move could have contributed to all the differences we find?
> For example: censuses after they have moved on one of my Moore lines
spell
> their name More instead of Moore. A Grandmother Catherine Doud on one
census
> has birthplace New York and another
> as Virginia (She was born on a ship between the two according to some
family
> members).
>
> ______________________________

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