Week 45 — Theme Stormy Weather — 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks
Week 45 — Theme Stormy Weather — 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks
This is my first year working on this year-long weekly writing prompts provided by Amy Johnson Crow and posted on her Generations Cafe Facebook page. I will do my best to write something each week.
1923 HAILSTORM DAMAGE
I found a newspaper article years ago that mentions my 2X great grandfather, John N. McCurdy. The article talked about a hailstorm that ruined crops and killed livestock belonging to him. (1) For me it put into perspective that even back then, weather affected our ancestors and their way of life. Not something I have thought much about.
Today I know much more about researching and what to look for. After reading this article again, many questions started running through my head and I now have a bit more research to do from this article.
New questions:
1. John N. McCurdy’s grandson, my grandfather, would have been around 12 at that time. Did my grandfather live close by?
2. Was John N. McCurdy renting or did he own the land?
3. What is the equivalent in today’s dollars this loss cost him?
4. Did he farm additional acres?
I’m sure there will be more once I start research.
1. Ada Weekly News (Ada, Oklahoma), 2 August 1923, p. 3, col. 2; “Considerable Damage Done By Hail Storm,” J. N.McCurdy (John Newton McCurdy); digital image Ancestry.com: accessed 16 September 2018.
Pretty sad to have hail do that much damage.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many total acres he farmed. More research to find out.
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