Stories of Mom & Dad

I interviewed mom many years ago and here is what she said:
Eleanor is her middle name and Granger her maidan name.   Born 2 June 1918 in Newark NY. She was born at home and had 5 brothers and 1 sister (William, Robert, Howard, Inez (mom), Gilbert, Aldon, Virginia (Ginny).
Etta Phylena Newman was her mother & Floyd Enoch Granger her dad.  Myra Newman was Etta's Mom and William & Harriet were Floyd's parents. 
At 6 yrs old mom walked to school thru Hitchings Apple Farm 500 acres, in the fall when apples were ripe she would eat them all the way to school and all the way back.  She learned to swim in the deep part of a creek 2 miles walk from home.  At 17 yrs old she lived in Seneca County and attended the Waterloo school and graduated in class of 1937.  She was baptized in a Methodist church in Cardiff at the age of 10.  She also got married in same church in Cardiff.  Mom was healed of Vericose veins in her legs and nightmares.  Auntie Inez told her a story about trusting in God.  Mom said to Auntie "aren't you scared with those guns in the house?" and she answered and told mom that when she put he head on the pillow at night she trusted that God would watch out over her while she slept and mom said she remembered that and her nightmares went away. 
Mom and Dad married 23 Nov 1938 by Methodist minister's home Lester Schaff in Clifton Springs NY.  They had Campbell's Vegetable soup and peaches for dinner that day.  Phil's mother died in 1939 of brights disease -- they sold the house and moved into an apartment in Phelps upstairs.  From 1941-57 they lived in 5 points (geneva exit) Joan and Bills moved that house to Rochester and lived in it for long long time.  From 1957 to 1984 they lived at 106 Pearl Street Liverpool.  In 1984 they moved into Old Mill Apartments. 
Mom remembers digging stumps to pay the rent in the early days of their marriage.  They had no insurance for surgery in those days (before 1956). 
Dad's middle name is Edward and his dad died of cancer at age 45.  His dad's name was Edward Ingram and his mom's name was Flora.  Margaret Recter, Bob, Phil (dad), Alfred were Dad's siblings.  Alfred died at age 7.  Barbara showed me a journel of the days prior to his death.  Everyone should read it. 
Dad was born in Verrick NY which no longer exists. 22 Dec 1916.  Lived on a 55 acre farm with horses.  They sold the farm for $2700 and moved to Phelps -- Dad graduated class of 1935 as president & valedictorian of his class.


Dad often said Mom's eyes were to close to here heart because she got tears in her eyes often due to her big heart.
Etta (Newman) Granger her mom often said the world would be a strange place if everyone were the same.

Floyd Granger knew how to make Root Beer and load hay bails properly on trailer so they wouldn't fall of on the road during transport. He drank, smoked and was not good to Etta (grandma).  When he had been drinking and came home mom said Etta would tell everyone to sit still and be quiet. 
I also have fond memories of the truck rodeo's and how well dad did.  Dad was the best truck driver in the world.  The only two accidents he ever had were in snow storm he jackknifed to avoid crushing a car in front of him and the other was a car at a garage in a town lost its breaks and rolled down by itself into the street under his trailer. 
I'd love to hear stories from any of you who remember them -- Mark

Quotes

Author C. S. Lewis wrote:
You do not have a soul, you ARE a soul. You have a body.
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Abraham Lincoln said:
"If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it."
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Jesus said in John 14:19 "because I live, you also shall live"
    I recommend anyone reading this verse -- to find out what it means.  Obviously
    not everyone goes to heaven or else God sent His son Jesus to die on the cross
    for nothing.  I beg anyone reading this to contact me and
   discuss the with me the reason for the hope that lives within me.
Especially my family.  Mom & Dad were not perfect but they loved God and gave to
God's work all their lives, they loved and provided for their family.  They lived a quiet godly life as God commanded (1 Thessalonians 4:11 & 1 Timothy 2:2)  None of that saved them - only their faith in Christ and His shed blood is able to save.  They did good works because they were saved not to obtain salvation.  Christ is the only way to God the Father.  "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus," 1st Timothy 2:5
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Amok Time S2E1 (original series)

Spock: [after T'Pring has explained her actions] Logical. Flawlessly logical.
T'Pring: I am honored.
Spock: Stonn, she is yours. After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

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Aim small. Miss small.  (The Patriot) Mel Gibson

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Original Air Date:9 October 1995

The Visitor S4E2 (these quotes are in order but from scattered points thoughout the movie)

Captain Sisko: I'm no writer; but if I were, it seems to me I'd wanna poke my head up every once in a while and take a look around, see what's going on. It's life, Jake. You can miss it if you don't open your eyes.

Adult Jake Sisko: There's only one first time for everything, isn't there? And only one last time too. You think about such things when you get to be my age; that today may be the last time you sit in your favorite chair, or watch the rain fall, or enjoy a cup of tea by a warm fire.

Captain Sisko: [reading Jake's dedication] "To my father, who's coming home."

Captain Sisko: Jake - you didn't have to do this. Not for me.
Adult Jake Sisko: For you, and for the boy that I was. He needs you, more than you know. Don't you see? We're going to get a second... chance.

[last lines; just after Sisko knocks young Jake & himself to avoid the warp core discharge that originally sent him (Sisko) into subspace]
Jake Sisko: You okay, Dad?
Captain Sisko: I am now, Jake. I am now.

The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

The Gettysburg Pennsylvania National Cemetery was dedicated by President Abraham Lincoln (Nov 19, 1863) a brief four months after the Battle. Lincoln's speech lasted only two minutes. Immediately following the speech he calls it a "flat failure."  Several authentic written variations of the speech exist -- some of which don't include the words "under God", but according to popular accounts Lincoln spoke those words.  And that version is what appears on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.   Note a score = 20 years.  Four score and seven years ago refers back to 1776 (Year of US Independence from British)

The Gettysburg Address

"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . . we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. . .that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. . . that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . . and that government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . . shall not perish from the earth. "

Does This Railroad Lead To Heaven? As told by Pastor F. M. Dosh

This is another true story taken from the 1894 edition of "Touching Incidents And Remarkable Answers To Prayer."  As you'll see, this wonderful story seems to speak to adults as well to children.  It's easy to see why Jesus urged the disciples to "Permit the little children to come to Me, for to such as these belongs the kingdom of heaven." (Luke 18:16)
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       In traveling we often meet with people of different nationalities and languages.  We also come across various incidents, some sorrowful, and others joyful.  I recently witnessed one of the most joyful incidents while traveling on the railroad.
      The train was going west, and it was evening.  At a station a little girl about eight years old came aboard, carrying a little purse under her arm.  She came into my car and quickly took a seat.  She then began to study each face, but all were strange to her. She appeared weary, and using her pure for a pillow, she laid down on the seat to try to get a little sleep.
      Soon the conductor came along collecting tickets and fare.  Observing him, she asked him if she could lie there.  The gentlemanly conductor replied that she could, and then kindly asked for her ticket.  She informed him that she didn't have one, and then I overheard the following conversation.  Said the conductor:
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to heaven," she answered.
"Who's paying your fare?" he asked.
She said, "Mister, does this railroad lead to heaven, and does Jesus travel on it?"
" I don't think so, " he answered. " Why did you think that?"
"Why , sir, before my mommy died she used to sing to me about a heavenly railroad, and you looked so nice and kind that I thought this was that railroad.  My mommy used to sing about Jesus on the heavenly railroad, and that He paid the fare for everybody, and that the train stopped at every station to take people on board.  My mom don't sing to me anymore.  Nobody sings to me now, and I thought I'd take the train and go see my mommy.  Mister, do you sing to your little girl about the railroad that goes to heaven?  You have a little girl, don't you?"
     With tears in his eyes, he replied, "No, my little dear, I have no little girl now.  I had one once, but she died some time ago and went to heaven." 
    "Did she go over this railroad, and are you going to see her now?" she asked.
     By this time every person in the coach  was upon their feet, and most of them were weeping.  An attempt to describe what I witnessed is almost impossible.  Some said, "God bless this little girl."  Overhearing someone say that she was an angel, the little girl earnestly replied, " Yes, my mommy used to say that I would be an angel some day. "
    Addressing herself once more to the conductor, she asked him, " Do you love Jesus? I do, and if you love Him, He will let you ride to heaven on His railroad.  I'm going there, and I wish you would go with me.  I know Jesus will let me into heaven when I get there, and He will let you in too, and everybody that will ride on His railroad--yes, all these people.  Wouldn't you like to see heaven, and Jesus, and your little girl?"
     These words, so pathetically and innocently uttered, brought a great gush of tears from all eyes, but most profusely from those of the conductor.  Some who were already traveling on the heavenly railroad shouted aloud for joy.
     She now asked the conductor, "Mister, may I lie here until we get to heaven?"
     "Yes, dear, yes," he answered.
    "Will you wake me up when we get there so that I can see my mommy, and your little girl, and Jesus?" she asked.  "I so much want to see them all."
    His answer came in broken phrases, but in words very tenderly spoken, "Yes, dear angel, yes.  God Bless you." "Amen!" was sobbed by more than a score of voices.
    Turning her eyes once more upon the conductor, she questioned him again, "What should I tell your little girl when I see her? Should I tell her that I saw her daddy on Jesus' railroad? Should I?"
     This brought a fresh flood of tears from all present, and the conductor knelt by her side and, embracing her, wept the reply he could not utter.  At this point the brakeman called out the name of another station.  The conductor got up and asked the brakeman to take care of his duty for him at that station, for he was busy.  That was a precious place.  I thank God that I was a witness to this scene, and I was sorry that at that point I was obliged to leave the train.

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A letter from the conductor to Pastor Dosh

Dear Pastor Dosh
    I wish to unburden my heart by writing to you and saying that that angel visit on the train was a blessing to me, although I didn't realize it in its fullness until some hours later.  But blessed be the Redeemer, I know now that I am His and He is mine.  I no longer wonder why Christians are happy.  Oh, my joy, my joy!
   The instrument of my salvation has gone to be with God.  I wanted to adopt her in the place of my little daughter, who is now in heaven, and with this intention I took her back to her hometown, where she left the train.
    When I talked with my wife about adopting her, she replied, "Yes, certainly, and immediately too, for there is a Divine providence in this.  Oh," she said, "I could never refuse to take under my charge the instrument of my husband's salvation."
    When I returned to the town where I had left the little girl, I asked about her and learned that in just three days after her return she died suddenly, without any apparent disease, and her happy soul had gone to dwell with her mother, my little girl, and the angels in heaven.
    I was sorry to hear of her death, but my sorrow is turned to joy when I think that my daughter in heaven received word from earth concerning her daddy, and that he is on the heavenly railway. Oh! sir, I think I see my little girl near the Redeemer.  I think I hear myself sending back the reply, "Yes, my darling, we are coming and will soon be there." Oh, my dear sir, I am so glad that I know you!  May the blessing of the great God rest upon you.  Please write to me, and be assured I would be most happy  to meet you again.

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We learn many things from this incident.  "From the mouth of infants and nursing babes Thou hast established strength .  .  ." (Psalm 8:2)  Not only should we never be afraid to speak out for Jesus, no matter where we are, but we should never give up praying for the salvation of those we love.  The conductor's wife was obviously a godly woman who must have been praying for her gusband's salvation.  It looks like God honored her prayers witha visit from this "little angel" who came in love, boldness, and with a word from the Lord about the conductor's daughter.  The right word at the right time is a mighty tool in the hand of God.
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I get tears in my eyes everytime I read this account.  Even typing this I did.  It reminds me of when my mom would play the organ and sing.  I wondered why she wasn't on TV then when I got older I realized no one saw here the same way I did.  Mom would and still does tell stories of growing up and raising us 12 kids and whenever she gets tears in her eyes (which is often when she speaks of Christ's goodness) I remember I could never hold it back and I'd get tears in my eyes -- not necessarily from the story, but because she was my mom and somehow it touched me inside.  She often said I have a good heart -- if I do then I got it from her & dad & Jesus.   Mark
                                                                              

Philip Mann's President's Address at his graduation of 1935 upstate NY

We, the Class of "35," have come to our graduation. Our High School days are ended.  We have successfully completed the course of study required of us, and this day divides, as no other day has done, the past from the future of our lives.  What that future shall be, whether prosperous of disastrous, no one can tell.  But, this we know, it will depend upon ourselves, upon the use we make of our gifts and the powers we possess, upon the worthiness of our aims and purposes in life, upon the attention we pay to little things for character is built upon little things well and honorably transacted.

We may try to deceive ourselves by saying we have had bad luck, but it is not luck but labor that makes men.  Luck relies on chance, labor on character.  "It will do!" is the common phrase of those who neglect little things.  "It will do!" has blighted many a character.  Those of us who learn nothing or accumulate nothing in life will be set down as failures, and it will be because we have neglected little things.  Again and again our faithful teachers have impressed these truths upon us more tenderly and forcible than words of mine can do.

We have laid a few foundations in learning, only that; I am sure they are good foundations and well laid.  The superstructure is yet to be reared.  What shall it be?  It will depend on you, on me.  We can build it strong and beautiful.

The world is waiting for us; it has need of us; it has a place for each of us.  It may not be a conspicuous place; it may be very humble, but there is a greatness which each of us may attain.  It is the greatness of good life.  Let us then be true to our Alma Mater, to ourselves, to our age, our country and to God.

Philip Edward Mann (born 1916; heaven 1998)
106 Pearl Street
Liverpool, NY 13088

Posted by his 11th child of 12/ 7th son of 8 (Mark Mann)
The world needs many more men like my dad.  Men of hard work, honest, giving, caring -- godly character. 

CHUCK - season 4 episode 7 titled "First Fight"

Answer to last Blog - The Little Princess" Leisel Mathew version 1995

This episode was great.  The writing on this show is just getting better.  If you're looking for a fun show to start watching that is clean & funny & SCI-FI  & Mission Impossible type stuff the join me and start watching.  It's on Monday nights channel 5.

One line in this show was Chucks bff talking to chucks mother after 20 yrs and when they meet (she hadn't seen him since he was 9 yrs old) one of the first things he says is "I haven't had a good rice crispy treat since".  It's not just the story that's good it's the character development and relationships.  Simple one liners like the rice crispy treat make it relatable -- I actually burst out laughing numerous times when watching each episode. 

Good night and may God bless!  Happy Thanksgiving to ALL!

KINDLE MY HEART lyrics - Little Princess movie

MULAN is answer to both questions on last blog.



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KINDLE MY HEART

as the moon kindles the night
as the wind kindles the fire
as the rain fills every ocean
and the sun the earth
with your heart kindle my heart

take my heart
take my heart

kindle it with your heart
and my heart cannot be
kindled without you
with your heart kindle my heart

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You must go to youtube or watch the movie and

hear this song.  It's quite unique and I love it!

What is this quote from?  That dashing milk man - you should run away with him - it would be terribly romantic.