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Ep 20 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 4: Nauvoo 🏡 General Conference ⛪️ Gov Boggs shot
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Send us a text 👉Jesse Perse Harmon👈(family tree 🌳 link) https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KWJH-BL8 Springfield, Illinois was good to the Harmons. The Mormonite congregations in Missouri had been forcefully evacuated through murder, rage baiting, and violence. President Joseph Smith and Hyrum had made an assisted escape while on a transfer fr…
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Ep 19 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 3: Kirtland ⛪️ Family & Faith 🙏 Immigration to Illinois 🐎
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Send us a text 👉Jesse Perse Harmon👈(family tree 🌳 link) https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KWJH-BL8 In 1837 Kirtland, Ohio, Jesse Harmon witnesses a community in turmoil, grappling with the fallout of the Kirtland Safety Society collapse and deeper cultural upheaval. His brother Alpheus, committed to their faith, explains that the challenges …
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Ep 18 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 2: Cannonballs💥Marriage💍Jesus🙏
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Send us a text 👉Jesse Perse Harmon👈(family tree 🌳 link) https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KWJH-BL8 After escaping the certain death inflicted on so many others in a British attack during the War of 1812, Jesse completed his active service in the military and traipsed a bit as a young bachelor. In Pennsylvania he found the woman of his dreams…
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Ep 17 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 1: 💥 The Siege of Fort Erie ❤️🩹 Spared from Death
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Send us a text 👉Jesse Perse Harmon👈(family tree 🌳 link) https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KWJH-BL8 In part one of this fabulous story, we begin at the turn of the 19th century as an international pissin match turns into the conflict known to history as The War of 1812. Jesse Perse Harmon (17 years old) and his older brother both enlisted. Th…
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Ep 16 Howard Leon Whetten Pt 3 🛶 Angels of the Solomon Islands
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Send us a text Howard Leon Whetten: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KWCB-QL4 Family Tree 🌳 ID: KWCB-QL4 In this final installment of a life story from Howard Leon Whetten…After their B-24 Bomber crashes into the ocean near the Solomon Islands, some unsuspecting angels make an inexplicable rescue when it is needed most. The “coincidences” b…
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Ep 15 Howard Leon Whetten Pt 2 ✈️ Midnight’s Watery Grave
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Send us a text Howard Leon Whetten: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KWCB-QL4 Family Tree 🌳 ID: KWCB-QL4 In part 2 of this story, the “ordinary life” of Howard Leon Whetten evolves into some extraordinary experiences as he faces certain death in the midnight plunge of his B-24 Bomber into the dark watery grave of the oceans surrounding the …
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Ep 14 Howard Leon Whetten Pt 1 👨🌾 Don’t Hate Your Enemies 👨🎓
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Send us a text Howard Leon Whetten: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KWCB-QL4 Family Tree 🌳 ID: KWCB-QL4 From ordinary lives often comes extraordinary experiences. Such is the simple life of Howard Leon Whetten. From his birth in Southern Arizona, to life in old Mexico, and then school and enlisting in New Mexico, Howard’s life does as many…
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Ep 13 War & Tragedy at Boykin, South Carolina
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Send us a text SPECIAL THANKS to Collett Carter for the family history story lead. The Boykin Mill Pond in South Carolina has been the hub of regional industry for processing grains and timber. In 1865 it was the scene of one of the last battles of the Civil War. And in 1860 it was the hallowed grounds of one of South Carolina’s saddest tragedies. …
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Ep 12 😇Angel on the Train🚂& the Black Widow 🕷
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Send us a text In an “off script experience” tales both wild and wacky are told from the research of the Boardman history. The wild unbelievable story is told of the widow who lost more husbands than one can count. And the engineer Boardman who on his death bed was given a supernatural power of extra sensory perception. CHARACTERS Cynthia Boardman …
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Send us a text Life in the late 1800’s was frequently just inexplicably tragic, as Edward Augustus Boardman and Catherine Fitzsimmons discovered in their lives together. Though they had financial success, attempting to raise children was nearly the end of them emotionally. The plans we have aren’t always what God has in mind for us. As hard as we t…
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Ep 10 📞The Phone Call : 🐎Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
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Send us a text Brothers are an indispensable part of country life for me. Mine has been ready at a moments notice for just about any wacky idea, adrenaline moment, project, rescue, or emergency. Its important to note that family history isnt just something that happened 50 or 100 years ago. Family history is a daily event. If you’re apt to retellin…
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Ep 9 🩺Dr. Priddy Meeks : 🥶 Frostbite, Polygamy & Cayenne Pepper🌶
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Send us a text Life in the valley of the Great Salt Lake was rough. From weed soup, cold winters, and the new life. 1857 was a year of turmoil and invasion in the territory of Utah. Thompsonian botanical Doctor Priddy Meeks recounts from his journal, how he treated one of the “invaders” for frostbite that had consumed both feet several inches above…
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Ep 8 🔫Armed & Dangerous⚠️ : 🐴The Phantom Ranch Ranger🤠
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Send us a text The Grand Canyon is a place of connecting with nature, finding one’s center, and in this rare account, airing one’s grievances. In 1968, newlywed and rookie Park Ranger Mel Heaton was tasked with an impossible undertaking…to disarm 5 hostile men…by himself. CHARACTERS (in order of appearance) García López de Cárdenas Alonso de Cárden…
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Ep 7 Bub Meeks Pt 2:🤠Prisoner #574, Good Teeth🦷 , Mustache & Size 7 Boots🥾
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Send us a text The strategy of planning, the thrill of the heist, pulling your hat down over your ears during the galloping getaway, and the adrenaline of lining your pockets with nare a few moments worth of actual work. For those of you who might have been a little titillated by the previous story, this is what Mr. Harvey would refer to as “the re…
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Ep 6 Bub Meeks Pt 1:🐎Fresh Horses, Butch Cassidy 🐿 & Unauthorized Bank Withdrawals💰
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Send us a text Life without structure leads to trouble. How many times will we be told to “choose our friends wisely”? Bub Meeks lived hard and fast, and paid the price for it. Life in the late 1800’s was tempting for folks who didnt have the patience for working and saving. So they took balloon withdrawals anytime they were low on cash. CHARACTERS…
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Ep 5 Heber Jesse Meeks: 🐄 Milk Heist, Ghost🐎Horse, & Malt Beer🍺
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Send us a text From the life and times of Heber Jesse Meeks. While living a prominent and involved life at the turn of the 19th century Heber dealt with the nature of old horses, driving new fangled automobiles, and teaching children how to subtly but firmly deal with troublesome neighbors. Whether its devotion to spouse, love of family, or commitm…
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Ep 4 Chief Walkara 🪶 the Blizzard❄️ and Nikki🐍
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Send us a text The Journey from Nebraska to the Territory of Deseret was an adventurously long one. And in the early days of settling the Wild West, there was never a destination. The only place you could permanently call home was your final resting place. From Conestogas to Cavalry, from rivers to mountains, from Chiefs to Governors, from freezing…
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Ep 3 Cowards 😬 Captives & Kings 👑 : Somhairle Mòr
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Send us a text In the early years of the 12th century in north western Scotland, the rise of a great king is taking place among the most uncommon of men, in the most peculiar of circumstances. Somhairle Mór Steps into an unexpected role, at a low point in his life, rising to fame, and power. The story of the origin of the clan Donald (MacDonald) wa…
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Send us a text Mountain Lions, Black Bears & Brothers. What a crazy combination. These are stories from the colorful lives of Alfred & Heber Meeks. Special thanks to Willford Meeks Halladay for recording these events as told to him by his Uncle Alfred. Contributions that clarified the events were also made by Mel Heaton, who recounted one of his gr…
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Send us a text Whether its the year 1883, Near Yellowstone, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, or North Carolina, You are gonna enjoy sounds of the Steam Locomotives on the Railroad, Learn about Infant Mortality rates in 1883, and mourn at the Maternal Mortality loss that was so frequent in that day CHARACTERS Alonzo Cook William Cook Henry Cook Joseph Wolco…
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Send us a text When we look over someone else’s life, we are amazed, we are awed, we are emotionally bedazzled at the ordeals they survived and even thrived through. Their life was normal…for them. As your crazy adventures in life will be for you. Part of your ability to be emotionally bedazzled by the life of another is the capacity to FEEL them a…
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