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My Great Grandparents Legacy

I have relatives all over the USA, in one state or another.
Thanks to my randy great-grandparents who could not keep their hands off each other.
They had eighteen children, sometimes in two’s, and most of their children had ten.
Eight was considered a failure to the family, it truly had to be at least ten, back then.
Their tiny Iowa farmhouse was so ridiculously small, it was crazy.
But they raised nine fine sons, and nine ambitious daughters, and none of them was lazy.
We had our family reunions on an extensively long flatbed truck.
We went on hayrides, and we played with twenty-something cousins in the muck.
I have relatives all over the USA, in one state or another.
Thanks to my randy great-grandparents who could not keep their hands off each other.

Copyright © Caren Krutsinger | Year Posted 2018

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Rico Leffanta Date: 8/7/2018 9:28:00 PM A pair on my family tree had 23-children; the father, a coal merchant, clearly demonstrating the productive way to stoke a fire. The mother, a model of patience. All that with no health insurance nor government assistance! Our DIY ancestors certainly set a standard! Aloha! Rico Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 8/7/2018 11:05:00 PM They surely did, Rico! Twenty three. Wow! That has to be a record somewhere.

Ilene Bauer Date: 8/7/2018 4:31:00 PM don't know how true this is, caren, but i loved reading about it! great fun poem! Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 8/7/2018 8:22:00 PM Thank you Ilene. It's pretty true.

Tom Cunningham Date: 8/7/2018 3:10:00 PM Sounds like you had fun times Caren, sad though you only see them at weddings and funerals but that's the way for us all. Tom Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 8/7/2018 8:22:00 PM Thanks Tom. I am not sure how you gleaned that, but you are not wrong.

Michelle Faulkner Date: 8/7/2018 12:53:00 PM I love 'randy great grandparents' line, sounds like twins might run in your family! Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 8/7/2018 1:16:00 PM We used to stack up the twins, and put the littler twins on our laps, Michelle.